The Lisbon Tragedy

Ohinemuri Gazette, Volume XVIII, Issue 2332, 1 April 1908, Page 2

The Lisbon Tragedy

In the cabled account of the assassination of the King; and Crown Prince of Portugal, the impression was given that the assassins stood in the street. The Daily Mail gives a different version. "The Home office was reached," says the Daily Mail, when suddenly and silently a young man in a cloak stepped from the crowd and inobfcnisively climbed the back of the royal carriage. In a moment it was seen that he had .a revolver in his hand aud before anything could be done he aimed point blank at the King. The first shot pierced his 'Majesty's throat and the second struck him full in the back. The King putting both: hands to his head fell sideways on 4o the Queen. , The two princes rose and fired their revolvers at the assailant, and in the commencing confusion a bearded man rushed forward and aimed point blank at the Crown Prince and fired. The Queen, uttering a piercing shriek, and covering the body of her husband with a carriage rug despairingly and piteougly attempted to beat off the man from the side of the carriage with a large bouquet, j which had been given to her on,her arrival, while she endeavoured, to interpose herself between her sons and the assassins. The Prince Royal, however, had already been mortally wounded and fell into the arms of his younger brother, who had himself been struck by a bullet which slightly injured his arm. Indeed so near was the bullet fired that it singed his uniform. As it was, his life was probably saved by his mother's heroic courage and dev*otion.