| Show I KING AND PRINCE ASSASSINATED Don Carlos of Portugal and Crown Prince Iiiz Pliillippc Murdered by Band of Anarchists Second Son of King Also Badly Injured In-jured Whllo Queen Amelle H9o Narrow Escape From Death Lisbon In State of Uproar Lisbon King Carlos of Portugal and the Crown Prlnco Lulz Phllllppo woro assassinated on Saturday and the city Is In a state of uproar Tho kings second son Manuel was slightly wounded but Queen Amolte who strove to save the crown princes life by throwing herself upon him was Unhurt A band ot men waiting at tho corner I cor-ner of the Praco do Commerclo and the Run do Arsenal suddenly sprang townid tho open carriage In which tho loyal family were dtlvlng to tho palace and loVqllng carbines which they had concealed upon them fired The king and crown prince upon whom tho attack was directed were each shot three times and they lived only long enough to bo carried to tho marine arsenal near by whero theo the-o plred Almost at tho first shot tho king fell back on tho cushions dylng nnd at tho sane momont tho crown prince was aeon to half rise and then sink back on tho seat Queen Amolle jumped up and threw herself toward tho crown prince in an effort to save his life at the coat of her own but tho prince already had received his death wound Tho tragedy occurred at about 530 in tho afternoon as tho royal family was returning from the Villa Vlcosa where they had been sojourning A strong guard was in attendance but as the party came into the Praco de Commerclo a public spare tho assassins as-sassins leaped to tho carriage and began be-gan shooting In a moment all was terrible confusion tho king and clOwn prince being shot down without with-out tho slightest chance to save themselves them-selves Police guards sprang upon the regicides tho number of whom Is somewhat uncertain and killed three of them and captured three others Ono ot these committed suicide sui-cide after being placed lij I prison It Is charged that one of tho murderers was a Spaniard Tho coldblooded murder has sent a thrill of horror throughout the poun try oven among thoso who havoi been working politically for tho establlsh ment of a republic and sorrow is expressed ex-pressed on every hand at tho dreadful dread-ful end of the king and tho crown prince At tho first blush It would seem as though tie assassination was the work of anarchists and not of republican repub-lican sympathizers Nevertheless tho stirring events of the last few weeks have prepared tho people for some startling culmination The discovery of plot after plot as well as tho discovery overy pf many secret stpres of weapons weap-ons and ammunition had demonstrated demon-strated beyond peradventuro the existence ex-istence of a determination on the part of a largo body of tho Portuguese Portu-guese to overthrow tho present conditions condi-tions and proclaim a republic Among tho first to bo called into tho critical situation created by the assassination was Premier Franco tho dictator of the kingdom Franco was protected by a squadron of cavalrymen alrymen as ho hastened to tho palace pal-ace and thero he conferred with the queen and high officials of state on what immediate action should bo taken It Is understood that Queen Amello will be regent during the minority mi-nority of Prlnco Manuel who is now In his nineteenth year |
