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of their swords. They knocked him
down, they kicked him, scraped the
skin from his neck with the edges of
their swords, tortured him, all but
killed him.
Then he was taken to the Sara
jevo Jail. The next day he was trans
ferred to the military prison and the
roundup Of his fellow conspirators
proceeded. although he denied that he
had worked with any one.
He was confronted with Babrino-
vic, who had thrown the bomb. Prin-
clip denied he knew him. Others were
brought in. but Princip denied the most
obvious things.
The next day they put chains on
Princip's feet, which he wore till his
death.
His only sign of regret was the
statement 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
rex.
y
THE AustrianS arrested every
known revolutionary in Sarajevo
and among them, naturally. 1 was
one. But they had no proof of my
connection with the crime. l was
placed in the cell next to Princip's
and when Princip was taken out to
walk in the prison yard 1 was taken
along as his companion.
BY October IL, the date of Princip's
trial, his prison sufferings had worn
him to a skeleton. Though he knew
he was not long for this world he
bore himself calmly and proudly. He
believed in the ultimate victory Of
Serbia in the war which had broken
out and rejoiced in his part in bring
ing it about. He regretted only that
the people he loved SO 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
shoulder the responsibility for having
inundated the world with blood. But
Princip stuck to his story that he
alone was responsible for his deed
and told his accusers he was proud
of it. -. ..-.-...
1T was not the government at Bel
grade which caused Franz Ferdinand
to die" he told the court. 1T was /,
a patriot in rebellion at the tyranny
Of my peoples oppressors."
nsoI Fol
sified 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 arraign-
ment Of the tyrant, one which would
constitute tremendous document of
denunciation of Austrian outrageS in
the so-called pacification Of subject
people. Princip knew that history
by heart.
His sentence was twenty years i'm
prisonment at hard labor. The death
sentence was inapplicable because he
was a minor, but the sentence only
meant a prolonged and tormented
death.
He did not quail, He started to
servo it at Sarajevo, but in the spring
Of 1915 a Serbian attack brought the
troops Of his beloved people to within
thirty kilometers 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 appeal to the prison gov
ernor which typifies his character and
Imagination.
There is no need to carry me to
another prison." he said. my life is
already ebbing away. 1 suggest that
you nail me to a cross and burn me
alive. My flaming body will be a
torch to light my people on their
pa sh 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
IMPRISONMENT. But so closely had
they guarded the secrets of our or
eanization that 1 was released for
lack of evidence. I was interned for
the rest Of the war in Sarajevo as an
Austrian subject suspected Of being a
traitor.
Princip was carried to Theresien-
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
TRANS kept him informed of each ad-
vance OF their troops into Serbian
territory, apd particularly Of the