The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-06-29
HEIR ID AUSTRIAN THRONE: AND WIFE KILLED BY STUDENT IN BOSNIAN CAPITAL Is Continuation of Tragedies That Have Made Dark
 Recent History of
 Hapsburgs TWO ASSASSINS ARE UNDER ARREST AFTER AVOIDING POPULACE Assassin Said He Had Long Intended to Kill Some Eminent Person From Nationalist Motives-Anti-Ser
 vian Demonstrations Begin
 in Sarajevo

Sarajevo, June 2S.-Archduke Francis Ferdinand, heir to the Austro- Hungarian throne, and his morganatic wife, the Duchess of Hohenberg, were assassinated today while driving through the streets of Sarajevo, the Bosnian capital. A youthful Servian student fired the shots which added another to the long list of tragedies that has darkened the reign of Elm peror Francis Joseph.
 The archduke and his wife were victims of the second attempt in the same day against their lives. First bomb was thrown at the automobile in which they were driving to the town hall. Fore warned, however, of possible attempt aganist his ,the archduke was watch ful and struck the missile aside with his arm. It fell under an automobile followed which carried members of the archduke s suite, wounding Count Won Boos-Waldeck and Colonel Merizzo.
 Were Driving to Hospital
 On their return from tine town hall the archdulxe and the duchess were driving to the hospital when Gavrio Prinzp darted at the car and fired a voley at the occupants. His aim was true and the archduke and his wife were mortally wounded. With them at the time was the governor of the city, who escaped injury. The bodies of his murdered com panions collapsed across him and pro- tected him from stray bullets.
 ;overnor shouted to the chauffeur ] to the palace. Physicians were
 lpt attendance, buf their services
 seess, as the archduxe and his
 ere dead before the palace was
 sodies Will Lie in State
 tne emperor < wIsnes aie known
 es will lie in state at the palace
 hey will doubtless be inferred in psburg vaults m the Capuchin
 at Vienna.
 rajeyo there is mourning every with black draped. flags and
 ITS on all public buildings
 hout the day weeping women 1 be seen in groups, while great 2 surrounded the spots where the
 exploded and where the fatal shots
 fired. The bomb was filled with
 and lead filings and the explosion iolent The iron shutters on many were pierced by flying fragments
 on railings were shattered About e of persons were injured, several
 m women and children.
 final tragedy, which has come to ouse of Hapsburg is the continuation 't e personal sorrows that have over
 wed the life of the Emperor. His began with sinister omens, for he
 internal dissensions and external
 sssions from the moment he came to
 prone In 1853 the list of tragic incl.
 g xxftl Ia; 7 liIe. when Hungarian named Lebenye wounded him with knife
 Fourteen years later his brother. Arch duke Macmillan. Emperor of Mexico. was executed. Then followed the burning to death of niece in Vienna, sister in Paris. and the death by suicide in Stah- renberg lake of cousin.
 Emperor's Wife Murdered
 In 1898 the Emperor's wife, who was the daughter of Maximilan Joseph, Duke of Bavaria, was stabbed to death at Ge- neva by mad Italian anarchist. They had been estranged for many years, but the Emperor had never ceased to show a deep affection for her.
 Less than 10 years before the Emperor $ only son, the Crown Prince Rudolph. a man of ability and promise, met death in mystery which to this day has not been cleared. On January 90, 1889, his body was found in a hunting lodge at Meyerling, not far from Vienna. Beside his body lay that of the Baroness Marie Vetzera-
 Archduke Charles Francis. known pop ularly as Karl, who becomes heir to the Austrian throne, owing to the morganatic birth of Archduke Francis Ferdinand s children. debarring their succession. diff fers from all other members of the im- perial family inasmuch as he is the first member of the imperial house to have been educated in the public schools of Vienna. where he mixed with pupils Representing every class of society. He associated with workingmen and trades
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