With profound regret we record the assassination last Sunday of
the Archduke Francis Ferdinand, Heir-Presumptive to the Atustro-Hungarian throne, and his wife, the Duchess of Heisenberg. The Archduke had been attending military manceuvres in Bosnia—he was Inspector-General of the Imperial Army—and was driving with his wife through the streets of Serajevo, the Bosnian capital, when a bomb was thrown at the carriage by a printer named Cabrinovitch, an Orthodox Serb twenty years old who is a native of Herzegovina. It is said that the bomb fell on the hood of the carriage, and that the Archduke knocked it into the road. It exploded behind the carriage and some persons in the following carriage were injured. The Archduke then received an address at the Town Hall. He is reported to have said to the Mayor, "What is the good of your speeches ? I come on a vieit and bombs are thrown at me. It is outrageous." After the ceremony he begged the Duchess not to accompany him further, but she insisted on doing so. In the course of this second part of the drive a youth of eighteen named Prinzip, a Bosnian high-school student, who is also an Orthodox Serb, suddenly rushed upon the carriage, and shot both the Archduke and the Duchess with an automatic pistol They died ins few minutes. Both criminals were seized and severely handled by the crowd.
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