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Show 5 KING IS SHOT 31 FROM BEHIND , Murderer of Greece's Ruler Is Educated Anarchist Who Had Personal Grudge vi . Salonikl. March 19 Alcko Schlnas, murderer of King George I of Greece, a, appears to have lived much aoroad He returned to this city when It was U occupied by the Greek army after the surrender of the Turkish garrison. v The premeditation of the regrcldc n appears to be established by the fact k , that Schlnna lurked In hiding n J I rushed out when hia ro al ietim whs only six feet from his hiding plac. and fired point blank tnio the back of i the king. The shooting occurred only VJ a fow yards from police headquarteru Lieutenant Colonel Franeoudls, the king's aide-de-camp,' who was walking beside his royal master, Immediately drew hlB revolver, Schlnas turned and fired at the aldo-de-camp, but the Jshot went wild. Two Cretan military policemen who were acting as an escori to the klnp. dashed at Schlnas and pinioned his arms before he could fire ana In NWhen Francoudl9 6aw that th hb-BaRsin hb-BaRsin had been arrested he turned to King George, who he aupposed had i escaped uninjured and was horrified J to find his majest stretched on the roadway Francoudis raised the stricken monarch's mon-arch's head from the pavemenL but the kinp; wa6 already unconscious and he never spoke again Soldiers who had been summoned by the shots lifted the king from the ground and carried him to a hospital He expired on the way without recovering recov-ering consciousness. When questioned by the police Sehi I i nas replied : 'Yon have courts I will speak H E there " Pressed to say who he wa9 and what was the motive of his crime, he (Li , rr plied s "Take me to the police station ao that the crowd shall not maltreat me I I will speak there On reaching the police station he cave his name and a few particulars A about himself. |