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Show QUEEN'S BODY MUTILATED :;BY;HER-SAVAGE:SLMERS Horrible Brutality Practiced Prac-ticed by Those; Who SJew King Alexander and Queen Draga. 7 BELGRADE, June 12. Horrible bru-'t'ality bru-'t'ality vbi practiced by tha slay era of "King Alexander and Queen Draga.- . King Alexander was shot through the throat - at -the first Are 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 through. ' ' " The rugs In the royal chamber were soaked with blood, which flowed orer the floors. 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 (Jueen had been disposed of. i The residence of the Queen's brothers, , near the palace, was nearly wrecked. . When the brothers were : dying from their shot wounds, they . klesed : each other.. -f ' ' - ' ; V ' Died in Their Homei. '. The ministers who were' Wiled met their deaths at their homes, and in some instances the attacks on .' them were made in the presence of members of ; their families. The daughter of the po-I po-I lice minister, Todorowttch, was wound-; wound-; ed. The minister- himself escaped with f some wounds inflicted while he wss trying try-ing to telephone to the police headquarters headquar-ters for help. Ie did. not get the connection, con-nection, as the telephone exchange was occupied by troops. . Count Marshal Nlkoljewltch 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. He sent a boat across the rlyer, requesting the officer commanding -at 8emlln to send troops to protect the Legation. While the officer was deliberating delib-erating whether he ought to encroach on Servian territory, the Minister sent another message withdrawing his re- Shots were fired at the Russian-Legation, but it was afterward explained that they were fired by mistake. In all about 150 officers were In the plot. The chief conspirators were all men of high rank, who acted in concert with the army. Due to King Alexander. ' The participation of the latter In the assassinations of last night that blotted blot-ted out the Obrenovitch dynafety, which has ruled Servla. with a short Intermission, Inter-mission, for nearly a century, Is mainly , due to the attitude of King Alexander and his consort toward the officers of the army, whom he always treated with scant courtesy. His desire to remove the war school from Belgrade to6he-batz to6he-batz particularly gave the officers offense. of-fense. : Dissatisfaction :wlth King Alexander's Alexan-der's rule has been accentuated since his suspension of the Constitution last i April, and it Is from that time that the military plot dates. The organization of last night's bloody deed was carried out with consummate skill. The King for the past tyro months has been thrown off his guard by the apparent complacent compla-cent reception of his recent coup d'etat. In the meantime the conspirators had decided on June 10 as the date for the execution of the revolution for two reasons: rea-sons: First, it is the thirty-fifty anniversary anni-versary of the murder of King Alexander's Alexan-der's granduncle. Michael, and, second, because It was fesred that further delay de-lay would permit the Skuptschlna to settle set-tle the succession to the -throne according accord-ing to the King's wishes, and it was believed be-lieved that the brother of the hated Queen would be his choice. Prima Movers In Plot. The prime movers In the plot were LJubomlr Schlckovlcs and OJislav Vllck-ovlcs, Vllck-ovlcs, who have entered the new Cabinet as ministers of justice and finance, respectively.- M. .Schlckovlcs 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. LJudomlr Bchick-ovlcs Bchick-ovlcs has made three speeches to the populace, arguing the necessity for the deed. Bank Director Petrowitch, Queen Draga's brother-in-law, and one of the bitterest enemies of the King and Queen, will inherit her fortune. |