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...were executed forced the reorganization of the Doumergue Cabinet, the retirement of Minister of the Interior Albert Sarraut. Working fast and furiously to save their reputations, the French secret police, assisted by the Jugoslav police, had uncovered by the week's end, the following "facts": Alexander's assassin, hacked to pieces by police sabres and bullets, was a fat young man named Petrus Kalemen, later said to be Vlada Georgieff. On his arm was tattooed the motto and device of a Mace donian secret society known as IMRO. The weapon with which the murders were committed...
When Austria's Archduke Franz Ferdinand was done to death at Sarajevo 20 years ago, no camera caught the act, although a memorable newspicture shows the capture of Assassin Princip. Last year at Miami, Hearst's brash Cameraman Sammy Schulman snapped Chicago's late Mayor Cermak bleeding from his fatal pistol wound (TIME, Feb. 27, 1933). Far more striking was William Warneke's famed shot of New York's Mayor Gaynor, taken a second after a bullet struck him in the neck. But no complete view of an assassination-before, during & after...
Perhaps the most burningly vivid and terrible newsreel ever filmed, the assassination of King Alexander, and of Barthou, and the subsequent lynching of the assassin, recreates in full on the screen the tragedy of Marseilles. No one should miss seeing this...
...Serbia. Quick as a squirrel a nondescript youth ducked under the police line, leaped to the running board of the royal car. His pistol was scarcely an arm's length from the King as he began to fire. Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! A sabre crashed on the assassin's head. His next shots went wild but the first had done their work. Minister Barthou clutched at his arm. King Alexander jerked, stiffened, then crumpled and slid to the floor of the car. Blood streamed from his mouth, oozed through his chest...
Like madmen a guard of cavalry whirled, charged on the screaming crowd. The assassin fell beneath shots and swords. Hit by a stray bullet, General Dimitriejevitch of Jugoslavia fell mortally wounded. King Alexander lurched half out of his automobile as the aides flung open the door. Horns shrieking, they sped him to the prefecture. There, while surgeons worked desperately over his four wounds, Alexander of Jugoslavia died...