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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1744, 8 May 1913, Page 5

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JUMPS FROM A WINDOW. ASSASSIN OF KING GEORGE OF GREECE,

Br Telegraph—Press Asjootation—Copyright -| Athens, May G. Schinas, tho assassin of King Georgo of Greece, has committed suicide by jumping from a window. (Rec. May 7, 11.15 p.m.) Salonika, May 7. Schinas was being taken to tho magistrate's room for interrogation, and 'ho handcuffs had been removed. Tho officials' attention had been diverted for a moment, when Schinas dashed to tho window, and jumped through ,'t, falling a distanco of thirty feet, A WEAK-MINDED BEGGAR. liomo notes and cartridges wero found on Schinas when ho was searched attcr the assassination of tho King. Questioned by tho police, ho said. "Yuu havo Courts. 1 will speak thero." When tho police insisted, ho replied, "Take mo to the polieo station, so that tho crowd shall nut maltreat me. I will speak there." On reaching tho station ho gavo his nnrno ' as Sclnnas.

Tho rogicido was not a madman, but was apparently weak-minded. Ho lived by begging, and twenty days previously had returned to Salonika, travelling by way of Athens. Ho stopped for several days at Volo, whero ho used to deliver Socialistic harangues. In his examination, when asked why ho assassinated tho King, Schin;® replied:—"l had to dio somehow, as I sutler from neurasthenia, and therefore I wished to redeem my life." Ho appears to have led a wretched existence, and his family had long ceased to acknowledge him. Ho was inscribed on the Faculty of Medicino at Athens, and was for sonio time a teacher there. Throughout the examination ho inado only vaguo general statements, and sometimes contradicted himself. Ho refused to givo any explanation of the crime, only declaring that two years ago ho asked for assistance at tho Palace, and -was brutally driven away by an aide-de-camp. Tho Greek Minister in London made tho following statement:—"The only possible cause for satisfaction in this terrible affair is to bo found in the fact that tho assassination of tho King cannot bo ascribed to political motives. Mv official telegrams from Athens show that ' t'ho murderer was a well-known alcoholist of weak intellect. lie had nlriady on tiro occasions been discharged from a small post which he held as attendant at a school. Apparently lie had applied to tho King for assistance, and his petition, after being referred to tho proper quarter, was rejected. Ho is u native of Seres, of mixed parentage."