Word: luccheni
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Three Murders. The murder of Alexander is only the first sinister chord struck in this intensely symphonic book. First of Author West's youthful memories was the assassination of the Empress Elizabeth by the anarchist Luccheni in 1898. "He was an Italian born in Paris of parents forced to emigrate by their poverty and trodden down into an alien criminal class: that is to say, he belonged to an urban population . . . which wandered often workless and always traditionless, without power to control its destiny. It was indeed most appropriate that he should register his discontent by killing Elizabeth...
...Luccheni has got on well in the world. . . . Luccheni is Mussolini, and the improvement in his circumstances can be measured by the increase in the magnitude of his crime...
...Empress Elizabeth was assassinated on Sept. 10, 1898, by Luigi Luccheni, anarchist, while walking from a hotel in GeneTa to a steamer...
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