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The Bridge has four arches and rests on three strong Pillars and the embankment; it is built of stone and gypsum and the two relieving openings, 'eyes' in the mass above pillars are so characteristic that they can be seen in the coat of arms of Sarajevo, too. Because of heavy traffic at the time of Austria-Hungary , the pavements on consoles were added to the bridge. On 28th June 1914 at the turning from the Right Bank into a street Gavrilo Princip shot Austro-Hungarian throne-heir Franz Ferdinand , which was the immediate cause for the beginning of the First World War . The bridge was named after Princip in the Yugoslavian era and renamed back to the Latin Bridge after the Yugoslav Wars . FROM THE HEARING OF GAVRILO PRINCIP – 12TH OCTOBER 1914 ''Pr.:-Did you know that there was a Moslem?'' ''Acc. -I knew, but he didn't tell me. I saw him one evening. On the day of the assassination I wanted to find someone who would not be conspicuous, and I found the son of the prosecutor, Svara, and one Spiric. First I walked with Spiric. Then we invited Svara and we walked and talked about ordinary things. At first we were in the park and I wanted to stay there, but they wanted to go to the Korso (a promenade). I didn't want to stay there because I had to go to my place. So I returned there and I walked on the quay and I was at my assigned place. The automobile arrived and I heard the blast of a bomb. I knew that that was one of ours, but I didn't know which one. The mob started to run, and I ran a little too and the automobile stopped. I thought that it was over and I saw that they had Cabrinovic. I thought that I would kill him so that no one would know anything further, and then kill myself, too. I abandoned that idea, because I saw that the automobiles passed by. Up to then I had not seen the Archduke. I went to the Latin Bridge and then I heard that the assassination had not succeeded. Then I took thought as to where to stand, because I knew where he would pass from having read it in the Bosanska Posta (Bosnian Post) and the Tagblatt. Then I saw that a lady was sitting with him, but because they passed so fast I did not know whether she was sitting. Then I stood and one Pusar came up to me and talked with me and said, "Do you see how dumb they are?" I was silent. He called me aside and because I thought he was a spy I thought that he wanted to get something out of me. A relative of his is a spy, so I thought that he was too. I don't know whether or not he was near me, but then the automobile came and I took out the revolver and I shot at Ferdinand twice from the distance of four or five paces.'' "THE SARAJEVO TRIAL" by W.A. Dolph Owings, ed. pages 67, 68 SEE ALSO Assassination In Sarajevo |
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