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San Francisco Call Bulletin

May 6, 1913. This article is reprinted below.

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Greek King's Assassin Ends Life in Prison

Aleko Shimas Throws Himself From a Window to Death at Athens.

ATHENS, May 6. - Aleko Shinas, who assasinated King George of Greece on March 18 at Saloniki, committed suicide this morning by flinging himself out of a window of the police station in that city.

Schinas was a native of the town of Volo, Thessaly. He killed the King by shooting him in the back while he was walking along the streets of Saloniki, accompanied by a aid-de-camp. He gave an explanation of the crime that in 1911 he had applied for assistance at the King's palace and had been driven away.

A few days ago the doctors examined Schinas and announced that he was dying of tuberculosis.

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