ASSASSINATION OF PRINCE MICHAEL, OF SERVIA.

Wellington Independent, Volume XXIII, Issue 2723, 25 August 1868, Page 5

ASSASSINATION OF PRINCE MICHAEL, OF SERVIA.

Onb item of eonfinetal news has a striking i character. Michael, Prince of Servia, has been murdered. Ho was walking in a garden with a lady who is known to have long advised him politically (he had been for years separated from a beautiful wife), und to the discontent of many, when a father and two sons sprang upon them, and fired revolvers The Prince wns killed on the spot, and the lady severely wounded, he lived long enough, it is said, to name the assassins, and then expired. Various motives are assigned for the deed. At first it was said that, private vengeance had prompted it, ard that the Prince had met the fate of Gkutavus 111., whose libertine propensities excited an outraged husband to furnish Auberwith the plot of one of his finest operas. But vo are now told to believe that the murder was committed at the instigation of the descendants of a former ruler. There has been no revolution, though it seems to have been expected, and the youthful nephew of the murdered man, Prince Milan, has been raised to the throne, under the tutelage of a guardian. The following are some fuller details : — iheassassinß of the prince are a father and two boiib. The names of tho murderers who have been arrested are Radovanowhich, from Schabatz ; Rogich and Athanazovifch, from Poscharevaz. At Schabatz the authorities had great difficulty in protecting the famly of JRudovanowich from the fury of the populate. '1 he funeral of the late prince took place on the 15th June, when the greatest order prevailed. The body was interred in the family vault of the cathedral. Princess Julie, and all the representatives of foreign powers were present Prince Milan will be brought up by the widow ol tho lute prince, who will moreover take a share in the government until the majority of the young prince. A Vienna letter in the Paris Patrie favors the supposition thut the assassination of the prince was due to a political cause. This was shown by the assassins killing Mdme. Anka U9 well us the prince, for, say 6 the writer, Mdme. Anka was the real sovereign. The same letter gives some details of the murder. The three assassins pounced on the prince, Mdme. Anka, and her daughter, as they upproached the turn of a dense thicket in the plei)Bure grounds adjoining the villa of Topßchidar, in which they were taking a walk. Two of them attacked the prince ; the third fired at the ladies. Their bullets struck five persons in all. When they retreated it waß found that one shot had gone through the prince's neck and another hud shattered his skull. He was quite dea.l. Mdtno. Anka still lived, and was able to give the names of the murderers, but died soon afterwards. j