The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-29

Princip's feet which he wore till his death.
 His only sign of regret was the state ment that he was sorry he had killed the wife of the archduke. He had aimed only at her husband and would have preferred that any other bullet should have struck General Potiorek.
 The Austrians arrested every known revolutionary in Sarajevo and among them, naturally l was one. But they had no proof of my connection with the crime. I was placed in the cell next to Princip's and when Princip was taken out to walk in the prison yard I was taken along as his companion.
 Slayer Worn Down By Prison
 By October 12, the date of Princip's trial, his prison sufferings had worn he was not long for this world he bore himself scalmly and proudly. He be- lieved in the ultimate victory of Serbia rejoiced in his part in bringing it about. He regretted only that the people he loved 50 greatly would have to suffer so much in a war.
 The trial began. Princip displayed absolute self-control. The Austrian prosecution tried in vain to force him to say official Serbia had been a party to his act. The Hapsburgs needed this evidence to shift from their should CTS the responsibility for having inun- dated the world with blood. But Prin- clip stuck to his story that he alone was responsible for his deed and he told his | accuser he was proud of 1t.
 "It was not the government at Bel grade which caused Franz Ferdinand to die," he told the court. Tt was | a patriot in rebellion at the tyranny of my peoples oppressors."
 1 The records of the trial were falsi- fled by the Austrians. But the words which filtered to the rest of us in jail made it certain Princip's defense speech was the most daring arraignment of the tyrant, one which would constitute tremendous document of denunciatior of Austrian outrages in the so-called pacification of subject people. Prin' clip knew that history by heart.
 His sentence was 20 years imprison- ment at hard labor. The death sen tence being inapplicable because he wal minor but the sentence only meant 2 prolonged and tormented death.
 He did not quail. He started to serve it at Sarajevo, but in the spring of 1915 Serbian attack brought the troops of his beloved people to within 30 kilome' ters of Sarajevo. The Austrians decided to transfer their political prisoners to the interior of the empire.
 Awakened in the middle of the night and told that he was to be carried off to another prison, Princip made an ap peal to the prison governor which typi' fies his character and imagination.
 "My Flaming Body A Torch"
 'There is no need to carry me to an othehr prison," he said. "My life is already ebbing away. I suggest that you nail me to a cross and burn me live. My flaming body will be torch to light my people on their path to freedom"
 Princip's fellow conspirators had been sentenced by this time. Three were hanged. The rest, on account of their youth, were sentenced to life imprison- ment. But so closely had they guard ed the secrets of our organization that I was released for lack of evidence. was interned for the rest of the war in Sarajevo, as an Austrian subject sus- pected of being a traitor.
 | Princip was carried to Theresein- stadt in Bohemia. He was confined in a subterranean cell, low, dark and damp, in an ancient fortress. Here to increase his sufferings, the Aus