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Article: Assassin's lingering end; ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS.
- Article from:
- Daily Mail (London)
- Article date:
- November 10, 2004
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QUESTION Many articles say Gavrilo Princip, who shot Archduke Franz Ferdinand, died of TB in 1918. Is this the case, or was he executed?
GAVRILO PRINCIP was born in July 1894 in Bosnia-Herzegovina, the son of a postman and one of nine children, six of whom died in infancy. He developed TB at an early age.
In 1912 he left Bosnia for Belgrade in Serbia and joined the Black Hand secret society. In June 1914, Dragutin Dimitrijevic, head of the Black Hand, sent Princip, Nedjelko Cabrinovic and Trifko Grabez to Sarajevo to assassinate Austria's Archduke Franz Ferdinand.
Each man was given a revolver, two bombs and cyanide to take after the ...