ASSAULTING THE AUSTRIAN AMBASSADOR AT ROME

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 5, Issue 1323, 9 March 1883, Page 2

ASSAULTING THE AUSTRIAN AMBASSADOR AT ROME

_♦ •' The Liberta of Rome prints the following ststement:—" Another most deplorableeventoccurredata quarter ■ to ten this morning. A young .• who had been observed strolling Aack- ] wni'qVaw} forwards sevoral timesfin ; frontqf the, Balazzq de Yenezia, fhV ;: residence of tljq; Austrian. accredited to the Holy' See, stopped, before, t)je main, entrance, ana], ftakjhg $ rsyqlyer fiion| j)(s .iiflcptj discharged four barrels in succession a| the 4# V WI Wfr dqorwaj, shquting at tije tjine, aj ih trip of hw voice, I Death tq Austria; | Oberdaiik fqr ever! Down yifa the assassins,! 1 Hjs ajres| was, effected without his offering the ralighteat resistance, 'Take rae at once,' he exclaimed,' I was determined to protest against the essassinatiomof Oberdank, ' and I shall always' shout, " Death to Austria."' On being taken to the police-office, it was found that he was a »ompqsiN|;f|e)pWJM|ffllh» native of Reggio in the Emilia, aged a,}, and was employed in.tho printing office of the Riforma newspapers, On being interrogated; nothing more could be dra\y.n from him than |hat j]is ]n : tqntjqn to '|q pjjqtqsj j}gtyljjjj{j Austria. Pqijsjderinj;' this fa/st, in. connection withthatof the stqne . ago aji the Ambassador's, oavriage, i(j ifj a]n|qs| impossible, nqt tq think that tljerq }s some qno who devises thesestupid, insujts. in seojiet| knowing where to find hands; to owry them into Q*eoi#n, Nothing being : known here to tho police regarding Regattierl's antecedents, telegramshave been sent to the authorities at Reggio for information concerning him." Tho Lombardia, a newspaper .of Milan, hav--1 ing opened a subscription list it its columns for erecting a monument to t)berdank,- has been warned' by the 1 tyqqujjafoii Goner*} of the Court of •■ Apjfeal liitbat'iity Mt, if the publics- ': tioh of the list is continued,- the neSys| ' paper sril! be I'dAced under, sequestration ' and a penal action will.be cbinmenced against each of tlie subscribers'to fho "-. mqnutqqrjll' ' ->' .'.■ . r ;•