The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1914-07-02
ARCHDUKE IS SHOT
Heir to Austrian Grown and Wife
Killed BY Student.
When Bomb Fails Automatic Pts
toll is Used-Assdssins Are
Captured By Police

Serajevo, Observation-Disclosures Francis
Ferdinand, heir to the throne of Aus
tria-Hungary, and the Princess of Ho-
henberg, his morganatic wife, were
shot dead Sunday by a student in the
main street of the Bosnian capital
short time after they had escaped
death from a bomb hurled at the royal
auto.
They were killed while passing
through the city on their annual visit
to the annexed provinces of Bosnia
and Herzegovina.
The archduke was struck full in the
face and the princess was shot through
the abdomen and throat. They died a
few minutes after reaching the palace,
to which they were hurried with all
speed.
Those responsible for the deed took
care that it should be effective, as
there were two assaults, the first with
bomb and the second with 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 missile
hurting through the air and warded it
off with his arm. If fell outside the
car and exploded, slightly wounding
two aides-de-camp 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 darkened
the pages of the recent history of the
Hapsburgs. AS the royal machine
reached prominent point in the route
to the palace an eighth-grade student,
Gavrio Prinzip, sprang out of the
crowd and poured deadly fusillade OF
bullets from an automatic pistol at the
archduke and princess.
Prinzip and a fellow conspirator, g
compositor from Tresinje, named Ga
brinovics, barely ESCAPED lynching by
the Infatuated spectators. They
finally were seized by the police, who
afforded them protection.
The first attempt against the arch
duke occurred Just outside the girls
school. His car had restarted after 1
brief pause for an inspection of ths
building, when Gabrinovics hurled thu
bomb. This was so successfully ward
ed off by the archduke that it fell di
rectly beneath the following car, tn
occupants of which, Count Won Boo
Waldeck and Colonel Merizzo, wer
t struck by slivers of iron.
Archduke Francis Ferdinand con
tinued his journey to the town hall
: There the burgomaster began the Gus
, tomary address, but the archduk
D sharply interrupted and snapped out:
/ Herr Burgomaster, we have com
4 here to pay you visit and bombs hav
been thrown at US. This is altogethe
0 an amazing indignity."
q After a pause the archduke said
e ''Now you may speak"
On leaving the hall the archduke an
his wife announced their intention
t visit the wounded members of the
e suite at the hospital on their way bac
/. to the palace. They were actual
S bound on their mission of mercy
] when, at the corner of Rudolf Strass
y and Franz Josef Strasse, Prinzi
y opened fire.
I A bullet struck the archduke in tt
d face. The princess was wounded
the abdomen and another bullet struc
t her in the throat, severing an after,
e She fell unconscious across the arcl
: dukes knee. At the same momel
: the archduke sank to the floor of tt
gar