Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 82, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 June 1903 — THROWN INTO GRAVES. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

THROWN INTO GRAVES.

Laat Contumely Heaped Upon Kins Alexander and Queen Draga. While the bands were playing and the populace of Belgrade rejoicing over the murder of King Alexander and Queen Drifts —the most horrible of all the long list of royal murders —the mutilated bodies of the late ruler and his consort were being secretly buried at night in the chapel of the cemetery of St. Mark. The grim iroay of fate was never so apparent as when the corpse of the la£p King and the woman he loved were placed in the vault of the Obreuoviteh. It was the place where Servia’s Kings must be buried, but every rite of a kingly burial was denied the late monarch. Into the royal plot the bodies of the victims of the military mob were placed with less ceremony than ordinarily attends the burial of a criminal. All of the bodies of the victims were dumped into one grave and as a final mark of ignominy, it is said, the bodies of the relatives and officials who were murdered at the same time were placed above those of Alexander and Draga and the earth filled in. It is said that absolutely nothing was done in the way of preparing the bodies

for burial and that they were buried in the same garments in which they were slain, on which the blood had scarcely dried.

WHERE THE ASSASSINATION TOOK PLACE.