The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1914-07-01
RUYAL CUUPLE
ASSASSINATED
ATChduke Francis Ferdinand and
Wife Are Killed
BOMB MISSES, BULLETS HIT


of Emperor Francis Joseph and heir
to the Austrian throne, and the Ouch
ess of Hohenberg his inorganic wife,
were assassinated at Sarayevo, the
capital of Bosnia.
Two attempts were made on the
lives of the royal party.
A bomb thrown at their motorcar
was warded off by the archduke Later
young Servian student emptied his
revolver at the royal car and the arch.
duke and the duchess were killed.
The archduke was struck full in the
face and the duchess was shot through
the abdomen and throat They died
few minutes after reaching the
palace, to which they were hurried.
Those responsible for the assassina-
tion took care that it should prove eff.
fective, as there were two assailants,
the first armed with a bomb and the
second with a revolver. The bomb
was thrown at the royal automobile as
it was proceeding to the town hall,
where a reception was to be held.
The archduke saw the deadly mis-
sile hurtling through the air and ward
ed it off with his arm. 1t fell outside
the car and exploded, slightly wounI-
ing two aid de camps in second car
and half dozen spectators.
1t was on the return of the process
sion that the tragedy was added to
the long list of those that have dark
ened the pages of the recent history
of the Hapsburgs.
AS the royal automobile reached a
prominent point in the route to the
palace an eighth grade student, Gavrio
Prinzip, sprang out of the crowd and
poured a deadly fusillade of bullets
from an automatic pistol at the arch
duke and princess.
Prinzip and fellow conspirator, a
compositor from Trebinje named Cab
rinovics, barely escaped lynching by
the infuriated spectators. They finally
were seized by the police, who afford
ed them protection. Both are natives
of the province of Herzegovina.
The first attempt against the arch
duke occurred just outside the girls
high school. His car had restarted
after brief pause for an inspection
of the building when Gabrinovics
hurled the bomb. This was so sue
cessfully warded off by the archduke
that it fell directly beneath the follow
ing car, the occupants of which, Count
Won Boos-Waldeck and Colonel Me-
rizzo, were struck by slivers of iron.
Archduke Francis Ferdinand stopped
his car and after making inquiries as
to their injuries and lending what aid
he could, continued his journey to the
town hall. There the burgomaster be-
gan the customary address, but the
archduke sharply interrupted and
snapped out:
Herr Burgomaster, we have come
here to pay you visit and bombs
have been thrown at us. This is al
together an amazing indignity."
After a pause, the archduke said:
"Now you may speak"
On leaving the hall the archduke
and his wife announced their intention
of visiting the wounded members of
their suite at the hospital on their
way back to the palace. They were
actually bound on their mission If
mercy when at the corner of Rudolf
strasse and Franz Josef strasse Priu.
zip opened re.
A bullet struck the archduke in the
face. The duchess was wounded in
the abdomen and another bullet stru k
her in the throat, severing an artery
She fell unconscious across her hus-
bands knee. At the same moment
the archduke sank to the floor of the
car.
The assassins were interrogated by
the police and both seemed to glory in
their exploit
Prinzip said he had studied for
time at Belgrade. He declared he had
long intended to kill some eminent
person from nationalist motives. He
was awaiting the archduke at a point
where he knew the automobile would
slacken speed, turning into Franz
Josef strasse. The presence of the
duchess in the car caused him to hesi.
tate, but only for a moment. Then his
nerve returned and he emptied his
pistol at the imperial pair He denied
that he had any accomplices.
Prinzip is eighteen years oil.
Nedeljo Gabrinovics is twenty-one. He
told the police he had obtained the
bomb from anarchists at Belgrade,
whose names he did not know.
After his unsuccessful attempt to
blow up tie imperial visitors Cab.
rinovics sprang into the river NIL
jacka in an effort to escape, but wit.
nesses of his crime plunged after him
and seized him.
A few yards from the scene of the
shooting an unexploded bomb was
found, which, it is suspected, was
thrown away by an accomplice after