DETAILS OF THE MURDERS.
SOVEREIGNS BRUTALLY MUTIL-' ,ATED. . THROWN OVER A WALL. Received June is,"' 8.58, a.m, Belgrade, June 14. . Press correspondents have been admitted to Belgrade. Captain Mischeto's party overpowered the Palace guards killing and wounding twenty-six. ' Colonel Naumovich, failing to force the main door of the Palace with axes, .shattered it By means of a bomb which killed himself-. The .conspirators then killed Captain Mulcovitch, an Aide-'le-camp, who barred their approach, to the Royal bedroom. " , 4 ' General Petrovics, the senior aide, 'destroyed , the electric light, , giving the Sovereigns time to liide in a storeroom. \When candles were obtained, the conspirators forced Petrovics to conduct them to the hiding place, where both, the fugitives were repeatedly shot and brutally mutilated. The bodies .were then thrown into a. garden the fall breaking ; thetr spines, and rendering them unrecognisable. The Russian Minister found the bodies at five o'clock in the morning. Mischeto says that he lost 64 killed and wounded and the others lost two. hundred.
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Taranaki Herald, Volume L, Issue 12282, 15 June 1903, Page 5
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