Show l KING G ALEXANDER S FELL AT THE FIIST F FIRE Missile Struck Him in Neck Killing Him J QUEEN SHOT MANY TIMES l After She Was Dead Regicide Mutilated Body Thrust Through and Through Witb Swords by the Assassins Who Then Embraced Each Other Belgrade June nA military conspiracy I conspir-acy which subsequent events show hnd the sympathy of the majority of the SerAlan people was carried out in the early hours of this morning and King Alexander Queen Draga her two brothers broth-ers and several ministers were assassinated assas-sinated The bodies of the King and Queen were thrown from their bedroom window Into the park QUEENS BODY MUTILATED King Alexander was shot through tho throat at the first fire and the rush of blood suffocated him Queen Draga received re-ceived several shots and after she was dead the regicides slashed her body with their swords and thrust It through and throughSOAKED SOAKED WITH BLOOD The rugs In the royal chamber were soaked with blood which Howe over the floods The window hangings were torn down and trampled under foot the wIndows broken and the objects of art shattered In wanton destruction The murderers afterwards embraced and congratulated one another on the success suc-cess of the plot and announced joyfully to those below that the King and Queen had been disposed of The residence of the Queens brothers hear the palace was nearly wrecked When the brothers were lying dead from their shot wounds they kissed each other DIED IN THEIR HOMES The ministers who were killed met their deaths at their homes and In some instances the attacks on them wore made In the presence of members of their families The daughter of the police po-lice minister Todorowltch was wounded wound-ed The minister himself escaped with some wounds Inflicted while he was tryIng try-Ing to telephone to the police headquarters headquar-ters for help He did not get the connection con-nection as the telephone exchange was occupied by troops SOUGHT REFUGE IN LEGATION Count Marshal NikoljcAvitch escaped from the royal palace and sought refuge In the Austrian Legation The Austrian Minister Herr Dumba was thus the first diplomat to learn of the assassination assassina-tion lie sent a boat across the river requesting the officer commanding at Semlln to send troops to protect the Legation While the ofllcer was deliberating delib-erating whether he ought to encroach on Servian territory the Minister sent another message withdrawing his request re-quest Shots were fired at the Russian Legation Le-gation but it was afterward explained that they were fired by mistake In all about lf > 0 officers were in the plot The chief conspirators were all men of high rank who acted In concert with the army armyDUE DUE TO KING ALEXANDER The participation of the latter In the assassinations of last night that blot ed out the Obrcnovltch dynasty which hay ruled Servla with a short Intermission Inter-mission for nearly a century is mainly due to the altitude of King Alexander and his consort toward the officers of the I i army whom he always treated with cant courtesy Ills desire to remove the war school from Belgrade to She batz particularly gave the officers offense of-fense enseTHROWN OFF HIS GUARD Dissatisfaction wIth King Alexnn ders rule has been accentuated since his suspension of the Constitution last April and It Is from that time that the military plot dates The organization or lastnights bloody deed was carried out wIth consummate skill The ICing for the past two months has been thrown off his guard by tho apparent complacent compla-cent reception of his recent coup detat In the meantime the conspirators had decided on June 10 as the date for the execution of the revolution for two rca Continued on Pace 10 r FELL AT FIRST fIRE Continued from Papo 1 sons First It Is the thirtyfifty anniversary anni-versary of tho murder o King Alexan ders granduncle Michael and second because it was feared that further delay de-lay would permit the Skuptschlna to settle set-tle the succession to the throne according accord-Ing to the Kings wishes and it was believed be-lieved that the hi other of the hated Queen would be his choice PRIME MOVERS IN PLOT The prime movers In the plot were LJubomlr Schlckovlcs and OJIslav Vllck ovlca who have entered the new Cabinet as ministers of Justice and finance respectively re-spectively M Schickovlcs was condemned con-demned to twenty years penal servitude for an attempt to assassinate former King Milan This afternoon the streets of Belgrade are fairly quiet The soldiers In force are doing police duty LJudomir Schick ovlcs has mnde three speeches to the populace arguing the necessity for the deed Bank Director Pctrowllch Queen Dragas brotherinlaw and one of the bitterest enemies of the King and Queen will inherit her fortune |