![]() The Mayor then delivered his address and the Archduke made a suitable reply. We have come to Sarajevo on a visit and a bomb is thrown at us.” Here he paused a moment and then said: “Now you can go on.” “Herr Burgomaster, it is perfectly scandalous. The Royal party entered the hall and the Mayor was about to begin his address when Archduke Francis Ferdinand interrupted him and in an angry manner said: Here the town councillors, with the Mayor at their head, were awaiting the Royal party to bid them welcome. He made enquires as to what had happened and gave orders to have the injured attended to.Īfter this the procession to the Town Hall continues. The Archduke immediately ordered his chauffeur to stop the car. ![]() Six persons among the spectators were more or less seriously injured. Boss Waldeck, who occupied the car immediately behind that of the Archduke. Morizzi, aide-de-camp to the Archduke, and Count. When the explosion occurred it resulted in the wounding of Col. The Archduke saw it coming and warded it off with his arm, and the bomb fell to the street and did not explode until after the Archduke’s car had passed. Suddenly a man named Cabrinvitch, from Terbinje, who was standing among the crowd on the sidewalk, threw a bomb at the Royal car with good aim. The Archduke Francis Ferdinand and the Duchess of Hohenberg started out in their automobile to attend a reception in their honor at the Town Hall. The Archduke and the Duchess were on their annual trip to the annexed Provinces of Bosnia and Herzegovina, but it was their first visit to the Bosnian capital. Prinzip and a fellow-conspirator, a compositor from Trebinje named Gabrinovics, barely escaped lynching by the infuriated spectators, and were finally seized by the police, who afforded them protection. An attempt to assassinate the Royal couple by means of a bomb failed just an hour or two before the murder. An eighteen-year-old Servian student named Gavro Prinzip was arrested. Vienna, June 29 - Archduke Francis Ferdinand, nephew of Emperor Joseph, and heir to the Austrian throne, and the Duchess of Hohenberg, his morganatic wife, were shot to death yesterday afternoon while driving the streets of Sarajevo, the Capital of Bosnia. This is an excerpt from the story that ran in the Toronto Daily Star in 1914, the day after Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife were assassinated.
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