FULLER DETAILS.
STRUCK BY TWO BULLETS.
DIES IN SON'S ARMS. REASON OF THE~ASSASSTNATION. "WISHED TO I>IE FAMOUS." (Received March 21st, 5.5 p.m.) SALONIKA, March 20. Sokinas, shabbily dressed, was waiting at tho corner of a side street. Two bullets from an old-fashioned revolver, resembling a horse pistol, struck tho King. Sokinas attempted to shoot Colonel Frankoudes, whose revolver missed fire.
Tho King fell on a table outside a shop, and the shopkeeper lifted him up. Soldiers who ran up carried the King in their arms to the hospital in tho vicinity. Ho was unconscious when King Nicholas arrived, and died in his son's arms. Tho body was wrapped in the Groek flag and embalmed. Officers, in the evening, carried it on a stretcher to the palace, King Nicholas and high dignitaries of State and clergy following, uncovered.
Sokinas is a notorious drunkard and half-wittod degenerate. By birth he is hnlf Greek and half Slav. Recently ho delivered Socialistic harangues. Ho lived by begging and was half-starved. He subsisted chiefly on milk.
The examining magistrate asked tho reason of the crime, and Sokinas replied thnt ho had to dio"~soon, anyway, and wished to die famous.
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Press, Volume XLIX, Issue 14620, 22 March 1913, Page 11
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