The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1916-01-14
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ms ROYAL TOMB
Chapel Where Alexis and
DragaS Lie lis SDepress-
ing Place.

CCorrespondences Associated Press)
u BELGRADE, December 2st-The
siast Of the house of obrenoyttch. the
murdered Al 4 Alexander. lies ina little
chapel in the Belgrade cemetery, for.
gotten by conqueror and conquered
alike! Beside him rests Queen ORA
"a, the woman fol. whose sake be
broke on relations with. his father and
whose influence upon him undoub lt %.
lysIed 10 the sordid tragedy that ex-
istinguished this royal line. -. .
The chapel stands In the center ct
u neglected graveyard. 1tSts sprtm-
tive building, q larger sample OF the
typical Serbian peasants cottage
Without ornamentation ofs.any kind.
IL Sc Of brick, rudely on the outside.
q Only a. cross carved into a tablet CIV
fling the date of erection shows that
iit is not an Urinary house or even q
Substantial barn: Bullets have sooreQ
holes through two ofsthe piain-glass
windows, and have made 6listers IN
II a. half dozen places on the plain sheet-
{. iron DOORS. The street tghting was
"a half mile away, but the modern IN
1lfantry rifle has long range ana ltne
4chapel stands on ground eleVate0
$aomoyhat above the scene OF the
5street battles.
few Hungarian soldiers are quar-
tered In building a hundred yards
away from the chapel. None of them
s3had any idea where the key to the
Chanel was to be found. The ASSOC
lated Press Representative hna!ly
crawled through small hole In the
wall. which appeared to have been
made by q shell, which failed TO OK.
.pioie. Scattered. bricks and mortar
lay on the, floor inside.
The scene was depressing. In the
middle OF the floor lay box contaln'
3fne books; dustscovered. and in dis
array The high altar had been
showed back into a small anterroom.
The sacred vestments, someaot them
forn and muddied, were st:ewn about
i the floor and on the altar. A. picture
Of q saint. It S protecting glass spin;
Sferad lay face down. A bullet mad
found its way into. one Of the crude
mural paintings. Mortar dust lay
deep over everything.
The correspondent had been IN
formed that the murdered king ana
sdueenfwere buried in this chapel, put
fhere was nothing insight even re-
Ilotely resembling a royal tomb Near
onescorner was q plain lettered slab,
naked by two wooden crosses. IN
5Cyrillian letter on the slab were
Sffe names Of two OF the older. mem.
ferss Of the Obrenovitch family. Right
and left stood a crude Roman cross
s:of wood. On the crossbar OF the cross
al the right was rudely lettered Al
sexander Obrenovitch." The CORE.
sponding bar on the cross at tne e.l teLs :
bore the name "Draga OorenoVlecn.,.
There was not another letter on
either cross, no date Of birth nor
8 death, no word to indicate that the
nersons buried here had once been
king and queen Of the country
IN the more than thirteen years tnat
have elapsed since the murder, crosses
$have mai even been set upright They
are simply against the ,white:washed
wall. al nickeled candlestick STANDS
near the squalid tomb; at the other
side is tall, cylindrical Ssheet:iTro9n
stove. sole means Of heating the CHAP
n. No guard rail separates the: TOMB
from the place occupied by tne WOE
shippers. ~ ~, 81, :, ., I,
recalls the regicide that stirred au
the world-with the exception, ac,'
acordtng to- the contemporary reports,
al Serbia itself-in June, 1903. Trou'
SHE had been accommodating for years
a. the Serbian court. Alexander had
&aiienated his father Milan and OF