The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-10-23
CALLS ASSASSINATION
OF THE PREMIER
ACT OF FANATIC
Berlin Newspapers are of One Mind in
Declaring that Adler Was IT.
responible When He Killed
Stuergkh.

Berlin, Sunday, via London. Monday Y
Oct. 23.-All accounts in the morning pa
pers agree in calling the assassination o
Premier Stuergkh OF Austria a. the deet
Iof an irresponsible political fanatic j
not OF a neurasthenic, whose mind wa
giving way under the strain Of the war
Dr. Friedrich Adler, the assassin, is de
scribed as a man Of naturally fanati,
temperament and one in whose family
insanity runs.
They say that Adler had given the i'm.
lpression for months Of one whose nerve
was stretched to the breaking point and
| his wild demcanOr caused much agitation
4 in the Austrian Socialist central commit
tee, of which he was secretary Young
| Adler led a small but vehement opposi-
Ition to the policy Of the party under his
fathers leadership.
| Vienna, Oct 23 via Berlin and Say
| vile wireless to the Associated Press
The assassination of the Austrian pre-
mier. Count Carl Stuergkh, was purely
political and was induced by his refusal
to convene Parliament, according to the
admission Of DR.. Frederick Adler, his
assailant, shortly after his arrest.
Or. Adler is an eccentric and super
radical Socialist, sometimes known as
The Liebkneteh of Austria" He is edi-
Ior OF Der kampf At first he declined
to reveal his motives, but after being
locked up he broke down.
Dir. Adler's arrest was accomplished
only after he wounded two men who
leaped at him after he had fired on Count
Stuergkh. He discharged the two re-
naming chambers of his revolver at these
men before Austrian and German off
GERS, with drawn sabres, overpowered
him. The wounded men, who were in
iured slightly are Baron Aehrenthal.
brother OF the late foreign minister, and
the head waiter of the Hotel Meissi Und
Sobadn, in which the shooting occurred
Count Stuergkh arrived at the hotel at
| 30 O'Clock. With him at luncheon were
Baron Aehrenthal Count Toggenburg,
governor of Tyrol, Herr X. jacobson,
prominent Vienna musician and an actor
from the Court theatre. At two o'clock
a man unknown to the premier arrived
and took a seat three tables away. He
ate luncheon and fingered at the table
Shortly after three o'clock he arose, ad-
vanced rapidly toward the premier and
fired three shots. The first missed The |
next two struck the premier in the head. |
Count Stuergkh fell lfeless.
Baron Aehrenthal sprang toward Ad- |
ler The head waiter ran up from be- !
hind the assassin and grasped the hand I
that held the revolver Adler wrested his +
arm free and fired two shots. Baron /
Aehranthal was wounded in the foot. The /
waiter received only superficial wound.
Seeing that the struggle was hopeless,
DR.. Adler surrendered to the officers who
'rowded upon him. Apparently he was
-he calmest man in the room. He gave
his name without hesitation and added: +
IF you please, gentlemen / know per
ectly well what | have done. | shall
lot resist arrest"
In reply to a question as to the reason
or his act he said at first:
THAT / shall have to answer in court"
1t was half an hour later that he ad-
nitted he had been actuated by political
motives.
Physicians and high police and state
fficials arrived within few minutes.
nut found that the premier was lifeless.
Jews of the assassination spread like '
,ildfire and was received with indigna- !
ion and sorrow.
The assassin, who is 30 years old, is
on of DIR. Victor Adler, Reichsrath
equity and Socialist of mild type. BY
coincidence the father was speaking
efore the Reichsrath in 1911 when '
ount Etuergkh was shot at six times
Y the Dalmatian Socialist Vakusch. On
hat occasion the count was uninjured.