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Show PfillP EXPIRES IN FORTRESS AT PRAGUE Assassin of Archduke and Consort at Sarajevo Dies in Prison. LONDON, iVlay 1. Gavrilo Prinzip, the assassin of Archduke Francis Ferdinand, heir-apparent to the Auk tro-Hungarian throne, aiid His wife, at Sarajevo, Bosnia, Bos-nia, died" yesterday in a fortress near Prague, of tuberculosis, telegraphs the correspondent at The Hague of the Exchange Ex-change Telegraph company. Prinzip shot to death the Austrian archduke and his wife while they were on a visit to the Bosnian capital on June :'8. 1914, and out of this double murder the 'Kuropean war developed. Prinzip, who was a student, was found gruilty and sentenced to twenty years' imprisonment. Prinzip fired two explosive bullets from a revolver at the Austrian heir-apparent, the first striking the duchess of Hohen-berg, Hohen-berg, the archduke's morganatic wife, in the abdomen, and tlie second taking effect ef-fect in the neck of the archduke. Both bullets caused death within a short time. Earlier in the day Medeljo Gabrinovic, a typist of Serbian nationality, had thrown a bomb, which the archduke warded off with his arm so that It exploded ex-ploded some distance from his automobile. automo-bile. The bomb Injured six persons. Gabrinovic was sentenced to twenty years' imprisonment. Four other conspirators con-spirators were sentenced to death by hanging, one to life imprisonment and one to twenty years In jaiL |