Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 55, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 October 1914 — ADMIT PLOT TO MURDER HEIR [ARTICLE]

ADMIT PLOT TO MURDER HEIR

Slayers Declare Serb Officer Engineered Plans—Killing of Austrian Duchess Unintentional. I - " ■ I ■ : Serajevo, via Vienna and Rome, Oct. 16.—r-The plot to murder Archduke Fnrticis Ferdinand, heir to the Austrian throne, was hatched in Belgrade, and a Servian officer, Major Tankosic, was chief engineer of the plan. The murder of the Duchess of Hohenberg, wife of Ferdinand, was not a part of. the plot. The foregoing facts were brought out by the testimony of two of the men accused of the murder on June 28, which threw the leading powers of Europe into armed conflict.