THE SHOOTING DESCRIBED.
A DEPLORABLE AFFAIR.
After the brief reception, while the Aarohduke Francis and bis wife were proceeding towards the military hospital, whither the wounded aide was conreyed, Prinzip. a Servian student at a high school, dashed forward and fired two shots from a Browning pistol. The first shot hit the Duchess on the right side of the body. The second struck tlie Archduke Francis in the throat, severing the carotid artery. The J>uehess fainted and fell at her husband's knees, and the Archduke beto Kon&k, but- both had meanwhile succame unconscious. They wer© conveyed climbed
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Wanganui Chronicle, Issue 20115, 30 June 1914, Page 5
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97THE SHOOTING DESCRIBED. Wanganui Chronicle, Issue 20115, 30 June 1914, Page 5
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