The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-06-29
Archduke Francis Warned Be.
fore Entering Bosnia.
Inhabitants Have Been in Ugly
Temper Some Time.
THEIR PLANS CAREFULLY MADE
The Assassins Had Strewn r.
r. Tracks With Bombs
To Blow Up His Train If Other
Methods Failed.

London, June 2s.-Every dispatch
today from Sarayevo and Vienna
brought additional evidence that the
assassination OF Archduke Francis
Ferdinand and the Duchess of Hohen-
berg was enc of the most carefully
planned crimes ever carried out
against royal personages.
Indications from the scene of the
tragedy show that it was engineered
by persons possessing more mature
organizing ability than that of the
thought in Austria and Hungary that
the plotters had their headquarters in
Belgrade, the Servian capital.
Servia's hatred of the Austrians
which always has been violent has
been fomented by the newspapers in
Belgrade and by agitators throughout
Servia and Bosnia who have helped to
infiame the minds of the students
lives in the belief that they will go
down in history as patriots.
Aware Of His Danger.
The crime seems likely to have
contrary effect to that desired by its
authors. Even before the bodies of
the murdered couple have been inter-
red. the Austrian authorities are con-
templating severe measures against
the Serbs, among the inhabitants of
Austria and Bosnia. These measures
lations between the countries as well
as those between Austria and Russia,
the protector ofq the Serbs. Arch
duke Francis Ferdinand, it is asserted
he was running during his tour of
Bosnia, which he undertook as in
spector general of the forces of the
empire. This title was conferred upon
him last year by Emperor Francis
Joseph His chief task was to inspect
the Austrian army which guarded the
Seryian frontier during the recent
Balkan war and prevented any en-
eroachmenis by Servian troops. The
Servian minister at Vienna told Arch
duke Francis Ferdinand of the peril of
his visit to Sarayevo, and implored
him, even II he insisted on going there
himself. 1t least to leave the duchess
at home.
She Would Not Be Left.
When the Duchess Of Hohenberg
was informed of the dangerous ma
ture of the Jorrne-- the archduke was
about to take, she said her place was
at her husbands side. When the
archduke and the duchess arrived at
Sarayevo on Saturday, some signs of
hostility were shown by the Serb por-
ton of the population. Just before
the couple passed through the city
the authorities succeeded in getting
rid of a great display of Servian flags
which the people had hoisted instead
of flying the Austrian cClors.
The bitterness OF feeling was car
ried to the extreme when at a session
of the Bosnian Diet, called to express
sorrow at the death of the archduke
four Servian deputies appeared in
light suits in contrast to the somber
black of their fellow deputies. The
plans of The a sassinS contemplated.
it is said, the blowing up of the royal
train when the arr -lduke and his wife
were leaving Sarayevo in case the at
tempt by Gavrio Prinzih failed.
1t was learned today that several
bombs were found along the Sara
yevo railway over which the arch
duke and his wife would have trav-
eIed.
Prinzih's own plans were carefully
laid He secreted himself behind
building at a spot where it was nee
essary for the archduke's car to
slacken speed. Some accounts of the
crime say that Prinzih actually
stood on the step of the ducal car as
he fired the shots.
Assassin Had Much Money
Against all these carefully laid plans
of the criminals. the extraordinary
precautions taken by the authorities
proved unavailing, for the murderers
guessed rightly that the archduke
would not be frightened into giving up
his program after the first bomb had
failed In Prinzeh's rooms the police
found lnrge sum of money, which