Word: assassin
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...read in TIME, en page 10 of the Feb. 9, 1925, issue, the article entitled "Hungary." In it Admiral Nicholas Horthy, the governor of Hungary, is said to have been shot at; and the writer of the article fairly chuckles in proclaiming to the world that: "The would-be assassin made good his escape...
...would-be assassin made good his escape...
...Imperial Majesty was then implored by faithful servants to return hastily to the Winter Palace, but he insisted upon remaining to look after the victims. Somewhere an agitated voice called out: "Are you hurt, Your Majesty?" "No, thank God," replied the Tsar. At this the assassin, who had been seized, grimly remarked that it was a little early to thank God. As he spoke, another snowball was hurled by a second assassin, landed at the feet of the Tsar...
When the smoke cleared away, the Tsar lay with his legs torn off his body, his face horribly lacerated. Pathetically he tried to raise his bloody body on his hands. A few feet away lay the second assassin, similarly injured; dead and dying lay thick around. The Tsar was raised tenderly into a police sledge, driven to the Winter Palace. In a few hours Tsar and second assassin were dead. Hundreds of arrests followed...
...Francisco Perez, alleged to be the third assassin of the murdered Englishwoman, Mrs. Rosalie Evans (TIME, Aug. 11), was captured last week in the State of Puebla. He was taken to Puebla City for trial...