The Archive · 1924

Assailant Captured

Vienna, June 1.

The Austrian Chancellor, Dr. Seipel, was shot and seriously, but not fatally wounded, to-day. "The would-be assassin was also shot and seriously wounded during the arrest.

Later.

Dr. Seipel was returning from Wiener-Neustadt and had just alighted at the Southern Station, when a man, who had travelled in the same train, made the attack. The shot penetrated Dr. Seipel's lung, inflicting a serious wound, but it is. not thought to be fatal, The assailant turned the weapon on himself when about to be ted. He refused to disclose his identity. The Chancellor was immediately removed to hospital.

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