POLITICAL CRIME

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLIV, Issue XLIV, 3 June 1924, Page 5

POLITICAL CRIME

AUSTRIAN SENSATION

MAN FIRES AT CHANCELLOR

BY CABLE—PBKSS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT

_ VIENNA, June 1. Chancellor Seipel was fired at three times by a young Communist, a weaver named Jaworek, as he was entering a motor car at the railway station. The bullet pierced a lung and an operation was performed. It i e expected that the Chancellor will recover.

The assailant, when about to be ar-T6ft-i. turned *he revolver upon himself, shooting himself in the head He *s m a dangerous condition. The police regard the* crime as a political one, and assert that the Chancellor who was formerly a Roman Uathohc pnest, had many enemies despite his distinguished service to Austria.