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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 ma
tionalist motives. He was awaiting
the archfuke at point where he
knew the automobile would slacken
speed turning, into Franz Josef
strasse. The presence OF the prin-
cess Of the car caused him to hesi-
tate but for moment. Then his
nerve returned and he emptied his
pistol at the imperial pair. He de-
MED that he had any accomplices.
Prinzip is IS years old. Nedeljo
Cabrinovich is 81. He told the po-
lice he had obtained the bomb from
anarchists at Belgrade whose names
he did not know. He denied also he
had accomplices and treated the trag-
edy with cynical Indifference. After
his unsuccessful attempt to blow up
the imperial visitors Gabrinovich
sprang into the river Mailachka in
an effort to escape. hut witnesses Of
his crime plunged after him and
seized him. A few yards from the
shooting an unexploded bomb was
found, which 1t was suspected, was
thrown away by an accomplice after
he had noted the success OF Prinzip's
attack.
Archduke Francis Ferdinand. who
was heir presumptiye to the throne
of Austria. was born December is.
1853. His father, the 'Archduke
Carl Ludwig. was brother Of En-
reror Francis Josef and his mother
was Maria Annunziata, daughter Of
Ferdinanand II of Naples. Francis
Ferdinand was still boy when his
mother died. In 1893 his father,
then more than so. married Prin-
cess Maria Theresa Won Braganza, the
1S-year-old daughter OF King Miguel
of Portugal. The new stepmother
established an exemplary home. Fer
finand always held her in high es-
TEEN. She and her daughter, the
archduchess. Maria Annunziata, were
the only ladies present as witnesses
at Francis Ferdinand's morganatic
marriage with the Bohemian Count
ess Zophie Chotek, who later was ele-
waited to the rank of Duchess of Ho-
henberg by the emperor. Francis
Ferdinand became the heir presump-
tive when the Crown Prince Ru-
dolph. the only son OF Emperor Fran
els Josef. met tragic death in what
is known as the Meyerling tragedy.
the result of an uncountenanced
love for young baroness.
With the crown prince thus re-
moved. the first choice as an heir to
Francis josef fell to his brother, the
Archdnke Carl Ludwig. but he, al
ready was an old man. and he de-
clined the honors in favor Of his old
est son, Francis Ferdinand. The IT,
tie Of heir was never officially cbn-
ferred upon Francis Ferdinand. but
from his twenty-sixth year his train
ing for the throne was carried on.
His escapades had been such as
are so often ascribed to royal lads.
but it is said that many Of the GRIM
inal pranks related about him were
really those of his wilder, brother,
Otto. The story was once widely
printed that in a drunken freak he
stopped a peasant funeral near
Prague and amused himself by leap
ing his horse half a dozen times over
the bier. This and many such in
stances were officially Investigated
by parliament and declared to be
mendacious slander.
Francis Ferdinand, according to
his admirers, had an altogether dif-
ferent personality than such stories
indicate. He had very thorough
military training, extending over 20
years, and in 1891 he was made a
general He reorganized the gen
| eral staff of the Austro-Hungarian
army with such success as to ex-
cite the admiration of all Europe. As
a hobby he took up locomotive en-
cheering and received diploma as
a full-fledged railroad engineer. He
was said to enjoy nothing SO much
as running an engine. He also be
came recognized as one of the best
shots in his country. and the wall
Of his great chateau at Konopischt
were hung with the antlers of some
1000 stays and chamois, as well as
the heads of tigers killed in India,