Jasper County Democrat, Volume 10, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 February 1908 — FATHER AND SON DIE TOGETHER [ARTICLE]

FATHER AND SON DIE TOGETHER

Assassins Pursued and Three of Them Shot Dead. How many shots were fired no one can say, but It was a veritable fusillade coming from the right side of the street. The effort of the crown prince, who was sitting opposite to the king, to rise, was pitiful and without avail, for he just lifted himself sufficiently to pitch forward and fall over the prostrate bodyof his father. Queen Aemlle, uttering a scream that could be beard by all who had not become frenzied by he attack, threw heraself towards her sons, shielding heir bodies with her own. She frantically struck at the murderers with a bouqet of rose# which she had been carrying, but even in the face of this the men tired again and again. As he saw his father and his brother fall Prince Manuel whipped out a revolver and discharged it at the men, but was himself struck on the right arm by a bullet from a carbine. A footman in the carriage also was wounded, and it was stated that a bullet grazed the queen’s shoulder, but did not do her harm. Only mounted police accompanied the carriage, as the king had refused military escort. The attack came from the rear; for it was found afterward that the king bad been shot in the back of the neck, and it was so entirely unexpected that the murderers had emptied their carbines and revolvers almost before the police knew what was going on, and had turned to flee into the crowds, that now, panic-stricken, dropped back before their weapons. The guard charged upon them, pursuing them down the streets and riddling three of them with bullets. Hundreds of the people joined In the pursuit, and there others of the band of assassins were made prisoners. The royal carriage had by this time been driven into the quadrangle and the gates of the arsenal were shut. The grief of he queen and Prince Manuel was heart breaking. Within a few minutes the queen mother, the Dowager Queen Marla Pia; the Duke of Oporto, the king’s brother, and the ministers of state asesmbled, all weeping bitterly.