THE SERVIAN REVOLT.
THE MURDER OF KING AND QUEEN.
DETAILS OF THE CRIME.
SLAUGHTER IN THE
PALACE.
United Press Association — By Elecfcrio Telegraph— Copyright. (Received June 15, 8.58 a.m.) BELGRADE, June 14. The Press correspondents have been admitted to Belgrade.
Colonel Mischet's party overpowered the palace guards, killing and wounding/twentysis. Colonel Naumovichi King Alexander's adjutant, failing to force the maiti door of the palace with axes, shattered it by means of, a bomb, which killed himself. The conspirators then killed* Captain Mulcovich, the aide-de-camp, who barred the approach to the Royal bedroom, General Petrovics, the senior aide, destroyed the electric light, giving the Sovereigns time to hide in a storeroom. When candles were obtained, the conspirators forced General Petrovics to conduct them to the Royal hiding place,
where both the fugitives were repeatedly shot and brutally mutilated. The bodies were then thrown info the garden, the fall breaking their spines, and rendering them unrecognisable. The Russian Minister found them at five o'clock in the morning. Colonel Mischets says Ihat the conspirators lost fifty-four killed and wounded, and the others lost two hundred.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 7731, 15 June 1903, Page 3
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182THE SERVIAN REVOLT. Star (Christchurch), Issue 7731, 15 June 1903, Page 3
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