The Royal couple were driving in the streets, when a student shot at them with a revolver. Both died in a few minutes.
The assassin is a Servian student, Gavrillo Prinzip, aged 18 years. He had been banished from Bosnia. Before firing he threw a bomb that was resultless.
An unexploded bomb was found a few yards from the scene of the assassination, indicating that a third attempt would have been made in the event of the others proving unsuccessful.
Prinzip was born at Grahovo, and studied for some time at Belgrade. When interrogated, he declared that for a long time he had intended to kill some eminent personage from nationalist motives. He fired when the car was slackening in order to turn into Franz Josef street.
As the Duchess was in the car he hesitated a moment, then quickly fired two shots. He denies having accomplices. He stood at the corner of the street with his hand in his pocket, and was able to fire at close range owing to the narrowness of the thoroughfare.
• Serajveo (June 29): Gabrienovic, a compositor, who threw a bomb, belonged to Trebinje. He was arrested. Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife continued on their way to the Town Hall, where, addressing the burgomaster, the Archduke said in a loud voice: ''We come on a visit and bombs are thrown; it is infamous.''
After a brief reception, while the Archduke and his wife were proceeding towards the military hospital, whither a wounded aide-de-camp had been conveyed, Prinzip, a Servian student at the High School, dashed forward and fired two shots from a Browning pistol.
The first shot hit the Duchess on the right side of the body and the second struck the Archduke Francis in the throat, severing the carotid artery. The Duchess fainted and fell at her husband's knees, and the Archduke became unconscious.
They were conveyed to Konak, but both had meanwhile succumbed. The two criminals were almost lynched.
• Early yesterday morning a big, square-rigged ship was observed from the Heads, standing towards the land, and when she got close enough to enable her signals to be made out and proved to be the Italian ship Combermere.
The new tug Dunedin was sent out to tow her in, and shortly after 4 p.m., she was berthed at the Bowen pier.
As the big ship hauled alongside the wharf the dark green moss that covered her topsides for 2ft above her waterline, and the numbers of large barnacles under her quarter bore testimony to the length of time she had been at sea (156 days).
She left Marseilles on January 25, instead of January 8, as previously reported.
The Combermere is under the command of Captain Francesca Martola, who reports having met with fair to moderate weather as far as the Cape of Good Hope, but, whilst crossing the Southern Ocean, the vessel encountered a succession of gales, which listed for about six weeks, during which time her decks were under water most of the time, and the cabins, men's quarters, and galley were flooded out day after day.
Nearing the coast of New Zealand the Combermere met with very tempestuous weather from the south-west and south-east, one of her boats being smashed on the starboard davits shortly before sighting Bluff, on Wednesday morning.
- ODT, 30.6.1914
