New Britain herald., 1916-10-23
MILLING OF PREMIER
 A POLITICAL CRIME
1. .sSaSSin Admits His Attack Was
 Not Personal Affair

vienna, Oct. 21, via Berlin and Say vile Wireless, Oct. 23.-Tbe assassi- I1tlon of the Austrian premier, Count l%@il 0tuergkh, was purely political, Ill was induced by his refusal to ene parliament according to the ouiIllSS1on Of Dr. Frederich Adler his t's9allant, shortly after his arrest. r' Adler is an eccentric and super .a9lcttt .'at aoclalist, sometimes known as tae Liebknecht of Austria" He is eu1tor of Der Kampf. At first he re- 1aaed to reveal his motives but after bslng locked up he broke down and o9elared the premiers political poli- eleS mad led him to do the deed Dr. Adler's arrest was not accom- l3nlcd without the wounding of two men who leaped at him after he had fred on Count Steurgkh. He dis targed the two remaining chambers cf- hls revolver, at these men before iStrlan and German officers with drawn sabres, overpowered him. The wounded men, who were injured slightly, are Baron Aehrenthal, broth c of the late foreign minister, and the head waiter of the Hotel Meissl u2d Schadn, in which the shooting oc- cured.
 Count Stuergkh arrived at the ho- tel at 1:30 o'clock. With him at luncheon were Baron Aehrenthal, Count Toggenburg, governor of Tyrol; Herr Jacobson, @ prominent Vienna musician, and an actor from the Court theater. At o'clock a man unknown to the premier arrived and took a seat three tables away. He ate luncheon and paid for the meal, but fingered at the table. Shortly after 3 o'clock he arose, advanced rapidly toward the premier, and fired three shots. The first missed. The two next struck the premier in the head. Without a word Count Steurgkh fell back 1ifeless in his chair.
 Baron Aehrentha1 sprang toward
 Adler. The head waiter ran up from
 behind the assassin and grasped the
 hand that held tke revolver. Adler
 wrested his arm freq and fired two
 shots. Baron Aehrentha1 was wound
 ed in -he foot. The waiter received only superficial wound. CaImest Man in Room. Seeing that the struggle was hope less, Dr. Adler surrendered to the of ficers, who crowded upon him, and gave up his revolver. Apparently he was the calmest man in the room. He
 gave Ills Idue WlIuOuC IeSlIdClolI oIu
 added:
 ssIf you please, gentlemen, I know
 perfectly well what I have done. I
 shall not resist arrest.''
 In reply to question as to the req
 son for his act, he said at first That
 I shall have to answer in court
 It was half an hour later that he
 admitted he had been actuated by
 political motives.
 Physicians and high police and
 state officials reached the scene of
 the shooting within few minutes,
 but found that the premier was life
 less. News of the assassination spread quickly and was received with Indignation and sorrow.
 The assassin, who is 32 years old, is
 8 son of pr. Victor Adler, Rechs-
 rat deputy and 9 socialist of mild
 type. By a strange coincident, the
 father was speaking before the
 Reichsrat in 1911 when Count
 Stuergkh was shot at six times by the
 DaImatian socialist, Vakusch. On
 that occasion the count was unin-
 jured.
 The Allegemeine Zeitung says Dr.
 Friedrich Adler for some time past
 has occupied position in opposition
 to the majority of his own party, the
 social democratic, of which he is sec
 retary. His wife is a Russian of Mon-
 golian extraction.
 Adler Believed to Be Insane.
 Berlin, Oct. 23, by wireless to Say
 villc.-A Vienna dispatch to the Over