ASSASSINATION
ARCHDUKE FRANCIS FERDINAND OF AUSTRIA AND HIS WIFE KILLED BY A SERVIAN STUDENT. IN THE STREETS OF SERAJEVO. (By Telegraph.— Press Association.— Copyright.) (Received June 29, 8.15 a.m.) LONDON, 28th June, Reuters Vienna correspondent reports that the Archduke Francis Ferdinand (heir to the AustrcHungarian throne) and his wife^were assassinated at Serajevo, Bosnia-. VIENNA, 28th June. The Archduke and Archduchess were driving in the streets, when a student shot them with a revolver, both dying in a few minutes. The assassin, aged eighteen, a Servian, had been banished from Bosnia. He first threw a bomb, but without result.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 152, 29 June 1914, Page 5
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98ASSASSINATION Evening Post, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 152, 29 June 1914, Page 5
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