Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-07-24
Eel 7.
PREMONITION Of.
HIS TRAGIC END.

COPENHAGEN. July 24.-What pur-
port to be hitherto unpublished facts
relating to the assassination of Arch
! duke Franz Ferdinand, of Austria,
: showing that he had a strong premo-
milton of approaching death, are con-
tributed to the Berlin Tageblatt by
its correspondent at the Austro-Ital-
ian front.
The correspondents informants, ac-
cording to this dispatch are persons
Of high standing, some of whom were
eye witnesses to the Serajevo trag-
ing supplied the match that set the
world afame.
Indications of the Archduke's I'M
easiness, it is asserted, were apparent
while he was driving along the quay
at Trieste to board the steamship for
Serajevo He repeatedly glanced up
at houses fronting on the water, as if
suspecting a bomb plot At Cumaja
Bridge, in Serajevo, however, when
Gabrinovitch hurled bomb which
landed on the collapsed top of the
IAustro-Hungarian heirs carriage, the
Archduke showed remarkable pres
ence of mind by sweeping the death
dealing missile away with his hand.
Falling to the ground, the bomb ex-
ploded, damaging the third automo-
bile in the line of the parade and
wounding the adjutant, Lieutenant
Colonel Count Merizzi.
After the injured officer had been
removed to a hospital, the archducal
pair proceeded to the City Hall. At
the conclusion of the ceremonies
there. a consultation was held as to
the advisability of carrying out the
program which had been announced
for the royal visitors. Contrary to
the accepted version of the episode.
which described Ferdinand as insist
irg that the program be carried out
despite the urgent advice OF menu
bers of his party in opposition to the
plan, the heir to the throne is now
quoted as having asked:
What shall we do now? Shall we
continue to permit ourselves to be
shot dead?"
General Petiorck is said to have
proposed either that the city should
be punished by the cancellation of the
program or that the streets be cleared
and the ceremonies carried out as ar
ranged To the latter proposal, the
Archduke, after brief reflection, is
said to have replied
ITO carry out the program after
clearing the streets doesn't suit me.
We had better drop the program en-
tirely. | only wish to visit Morrill,"
In Difference to the Archduke's
wishes, the party was divided, the
royal pair proceeding on their way to
the hospital to visit the wounded adj
iutant In the prevailing confusion.
according to the latest version OF the
tragedy, the chauffeur assigned to the
Archdukes car disregarded his in
| structions. Count Harrach, the officer
who had been detailed to the Arch
dukes machine appeared on the run
ming beard of another car on the OPP
posite side of the street When the
Archduke's chauffeur started OFF IN
the wrong direction, Count Harrach'
il is said. called to him to halt, thus
affording the assassin, Princip, an IN
expected opportunity to fire the fatal
shots at Ferdinand and his wife from
a distance of only a few feet.
The Tagleblatt's correspondent as
serts that, after the bomb outrage in
which the adjutant was injured, Gen
eral Portierck assured the Archduke
there would be no further attempt to
assassinate him, as plotters all had
been arrested. Ferdinand, however
is described as having looked at him
somewhat skeptically and saying:
Il don't believe it. We will get sew
eral bullets yet.