Bisbee daily review., 1916-01-25
CORRESPONDENT IN VISIT ID FAMOUS
 PLACE OF BURIAL
Gloom Surrounds Historic
 Spot; Chapel in Belgrade
 Cemetery Guards Last Re- pose of Murdered Alexander.

II BELGRADE-The last of the house of Obrenovitch, the murdered Alexan- der, lies in a little chapper in the Belgrade cemetery, forgotten by con uueror and conquered alikes Beside him rests Queen Draga, for whose sake he broke off relations with his father and whose influence upon him undoubtedly led to the sordid tragedy that extinguished thi sroyal line.
 The chapel stands in the center of a neglected graveyard. It is primi- tive building, a larger sample of the typical Serbian peasants cottage, with out ornamentation of any kind. It is of brick, rudely plastered on the out side. Only a cross carved into a tablet I giving the date of erection shows that it is not an ordinary house or even a substantial barn. Bullets have bored { neat holes through two of the plain glass windows, and have made blisters i in a half dozen places on the plain sheet iron doors. The street fighting was half mile away, but the modern infantry rifle has large range, and ! the chapel stands on ground elevated 1 somewhat above the scene of the i street battles.
 | A few Hungarian soldiers are quar- tered in a building a hundred yards away from the chapel None of them had any idea where the key to the chapel was to be found. The associa- ted Press representative finally crawl | ed through a small hole in the wall which appeared to have been made by a shell which failed to explode. scat tered bricks and mortar lay on the floor inside.
 The scene was depressing. In the middle of the floor lay box contain ing books, dust-covered and in disar- ray. The higher altar had been shov- ed back into a small anteroom. The sacred vestments. some of them torn and muddied were strewn about the floor and on the altar A picture of a saint, it's protecting glass splintered. lay face down. A bullet had found it's way into one of the crude mural paint l ings. Mortar dust lay deep over every thing.
 The correspondent had been inform ed that the murdered king and queen were buried in this chapel, but there was nothing in sight even remotely re- sembling aroyal tomb. Near one cor ner was. plain lettered slab, flanked | by two wooden crosses. In Cyrillian letters on the slab were the names of two of the older members of the Obre- r7vitch ffmily Right and left stood huge Roman cross of wood. On the -~sr be- of the cross at the right was ! r-dely lettered Alexander Obreno- Vi ch." The corresponding bar on the , cresa at the left bore the name Ora ga O6renovitch." There was not an- !, o'Ner letter on the cross, no date of hirih nor death, no word to indicate 't'- tb1 persons buried there had once ! '-o~l king and queen of the coun-
 In the more than thirteen years that : have elapsed sicne the murder, the crosses have not even been set up right They are simply leaned against ne whitewashed wall. A nickle can dlestick stands near the squalied tomb at the other side is a tall, cylindrical sheetiroD stove, sole means of heat ing the chapel No guard rail separ- aates the tomb from the place occu- pied by the worshippers
 The mean tomb in the little chapel recalls the regicide that stirred all the world-with the exception, ac- cording to contemporary reports, of
 Serbia itself-in June, 1903. Trouble had been accommodating for years at the Serbian court Alexander had alienated his father Milan and offend ed various European courts by marry ing Draga Maschin, widow of an en- gineer and former lady in waiting of
 Queen Natalie. Nopotism and gene ral favoritism still further embittered the old court party at Belgrade. Par ticularly was there wide dissatisfac- ton among the army officers.
 What gave greater impetus to the growing conspiracy against King Alex ander was his act in suspending the constitution on April z. 1903, declaring void the mandates of the senators and councillators of tsate, dissolving the
 Skupshtina and setting aside various laws, including the election law.
 Late in the night of June 10, 1903, band of conspirators, chiefly officials and army officers, and including Colo. ,or Nocob;n brO4har Of nro ooo,c dao q husband, overpowered or shot down the weak palace guard and forced their way to the door of the royal apartment. This door was blown down with dynamite. and the king and queen were shot and stabbed to death and their bodies thrown out of the window into the small garden