Northern Weekly Gazette. — 1908-02-22 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

MUD. dered Monarch, and the King of Italy are said to have written to Dom Carlos warning him that • serious attempt was to be made upon his life, and begging him to take every precaution. But Dom Carlos, light-hearted and good-natured, wearied 4 living for ever on the " qui vivo," and finally deter. mined to entrust himself unguarded amongst the people he loved. It was the opportunity—the loop. hole—that the plotters had been working for, and they struck at once. It was a barbarous, brutal outrage, resemblingin its political aspect—for the assassins were not Ana'. chiefs, but the extreme wing of the King's political opponents, the violent Republicans--the murder ell the King and Queen of Servia. Like Dom Carlos, King Alexander of Servia ea. deavoured to alter the Constitutional system of his country. He destroyed the liberty of the Press, revoked all the Radical legislation of his previous Parliament, abolished the ballot at elections, and dismissed ten Judges. His marriage with his nit. fortunate Queen Drega established his urrpopu. larity. A conspiracy was formed against him ill the army. On the night of June 10th, 1903, that conspiracy came to a head.  The Palace was surrounded with soldiers. le party of officers attempted to force an entrance. They found the doors closed. With the aid of a dynamite bomb they made an entrance. General Petrovitch, a faithful servant of the King, was ordered to conduct them to the presence. Wishing to gain time, he replied that their Majesties were hiding in the cellars. There, by the light a candles —for the bomb explosion had destroyed the electrio light—the party of assassins searched. Finding that they had been deceived, they killed the faith. ful old General, and proceeded to ransack the Palace.  Meanwhile, King Alexander and Queen Drags had taken refuge in the little closet in which ths Queen kept her dresses. Here they were eventuany found. The cowards emptied their revolvers into the Queen, and as she lay upon the ground, sail alive, ripped up her body with their swords, comp pleting their cruel mutilation by cutting off her fingers. Then, with their swords and revolves% they despatched the King, and, seizing the bodies, flung them, as if they were the carcases of two dogs, out of the window into the courtyard bekom. Terrible though it may seem, this ghastly murder of a defenceless man and a defenceless woman vras received with applause in the capital of Servia. The city was adorned as if for a festival. The head at the Seri/ism Church held a service of thanksgiving in the Cathedral, and the vile murderers then:b. selves were hailed by the Servian Parliament all the saviours of their country.  These two cases afford examples of the dangers Monarchs run from a mere ebullition of popular feeling. More dread and, from the standpoint at the Monarch himself, more nerve-racking are the dangers he must apprehend from the silent, secret intrigues of the Anarchists. In my next articles I shall endeavour to make my readers realise the grim terror of these subterranean forces which are ever at work seeking the lives of kings and rulers.