Evening star., 1922-06-28
HEARD SHOT FIRED
THAT STARTED WAR
St. Louis Girl Witnessed
Staying of Austrian
-
Archduke.

i
young woman now living in st.
Louis has constantly in her mind the
memory of one of the most tragic
events of modern times-the assassi-,
nation of the Archduke Francis FerA
dinand of Austria and his wife. the
| Duchess of Hohenberg, In Sara.rvo.
Bosnia. June %, 1914.
! The shots which ended the lives OF
| the Austrian heir apparent and his
consort were literally heard around
the world. for they started the great
est and most destructive war in. his
tory. from the effects of which all ma
/ tions are still struggling to recover.
| In the period of nearly eight years
! which has interviewed those shots
| have rung again and again in the
| ears of Miss Adela Catfish. twenty
| years old. who still cannot curb an
sSe fss in hsr voice OF tweys
| clad in a pretty white dress and
strewfng lovely flowers in the path
of the archduke and his wife, she was
| an eyewitness to the assassination
:, which set the world on fire..
Miss Gallish came to America with
an older sister eleven months ago.
She then had no knowledge of Eng
| lish, though she could speak the
German. Slavic and Magyar lam
guages. She has been working in
school for the study of English. in
| which she has made remarkable
progress. She has good vocabu-
larry. considering her short period OF
| study.
Was a Flower Girl.
after all that has happened 1t
seems very long. but I can never for
get it," she said. 1T was to be a
great day for us. We had been told
in school that the orchduka wae COM
ing. They said he was a very great
man who would one day rule over
Austria.
Our province had been taken from
the Serbs by the Austrians. Most of
| us school children were Serbs. but We
were told that everything must be
done to make the archduke welcome
and that all the school children must
march in the parade.
Il was chosen as one of the flower
girls picked out to march directly in
front of the archduke's automobile
and scatter flowers in his path. l can
| remember how busy all the mothers
were making white dresses for the
school girls to wear on the big day.
The city of Sarajevo is cut in two
| by the Milyatski river. over which
there are nine bridges connecting the
two sections of the city. The route
| Of the parade was along a broad
\! street like a boulevard along the
| river front. passing the nine bridges.
some of whom stood on the ratings
| to get a better view of the great
| visitors. Until afterward no one know
the danger which lurked at each of
these bridges.
Neighbo rThrew a Bomb.
I'VE had reached about the fifth
bridge when I saw something awful.
ISn Of h N I n ha1
be real. The Gabrinowitch family
i lived right next door to US. They had
a boy. Nedjeliko. nineteen years old.
whom l had known since early child
hood. He had visited our house many
times and played in our yard with
me and my older brother and sister.
We loved him as If he had been our
own brother.
Now. in my pretty white dress and
carrying a big basket of flowers. 1
now when I think of it. l saw Ned
jeliko Gabrinowitch fNeddie. We used
to call him) run out from the crowd
and throw bomb right behind the
archduke's motor car.
Il heard an awful crashing sound.
There was great excitement. The
crowd tried to close in. but soldiers
showed them back. 1 saw Neddie push
his way through the crowd and run
toward the bridge. 1 learned after
wards that he jumped from the bridge
| into the river and was captured when
he tried to go ashore on the other side.
II saw people running by with blood
| streaming from their hands and
faces. A woman carrying a child ran
past me crying, They have killed my
baby
Many Others Injured.
I'VE girls were badly scared. but
! they held US together. They did not
let US know that the bomb wounded
| several persons in the car just back
! of the archduke's and had also hurt
many in the crowd.
/ This stopped the parade. but after
! a time we went on. I scattered
flowers. but I kept thinking of Ned
die and the awful think I had seen
him do.
| "At the Town Hall the archduke
! and the duchess went in to be re-
| ceived by the mayor. We waited
outside. When they came out the
procession started again. and at about
the third bridge ! saw a man with a
pistol in his hand. He was point
+! ing it at the archdukes car. I heard
two shots and saw both the arch
| duke and his wife sink down in their
seats. I was too excited to know
| which was shot first. I know now
that the man who fred the shots was
lGabrilovitch Prinzip.
After the shooting Prinzip tried to
! get away. but the crowd fell on him
+! and beat him. was quite close to
uybaro this was 1oinD nm and heard