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Seven members of the straggling crowd did no cheering. All seven were native Bosnians, but three of them-young Gavrilo Princip, Trifko Grabezh, Nedelyko Chabrinovitch-had arrived three weeks earlier from Belgrade, sent by the Ujedinjenje Hi smrt (known as the "Black Hand" Society, sworn to reunite Bosnia and Serbia). They had bombs and revolvers to murder the Archduke, and during the three weeks, with the help of a local conspirator, Hitch, they had recruited and armed three Sarajevo youngsters to aid in the attempt...
...ADVENT OF LIBERTY ON ST. VITUS DAY, JUNE 28TH 1914." In the cemetery outside the town is a tablet to "THE HEROES OF ST. VITUS DAY," Shooter Princip, Nedielko Cabrinovic, whose clumsily thrown bomb glanced harmlessly off Archduke Franz Ferdinand's shoulder earlier in the day, and Trifko Grabez who helped Princip and Cabrinovic get their weapons from Serbia...
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