The wife of the archduke, assassinated with him, was a Bohemian, her maiden name being Sophie Chotek.  She was not of noble blood as Bohemia had no nobles.  They had been driven out of the country centuries before and their titles and estates conferred on indigent Spanish and Austrian adventurers.  Not being of noble birth, she was but the morgantic wife of the Austrian heir.  Titles were afterwards conferred upon her.  She was made a countess and then a duchess.  Some say she had been an actress; not unlikely, for actresses possessed an especial appeal to Austrian royalty.  The cruel Hapsburgs rendered dull witted and inefficient by generations of inbreeding, were fascinated by the bright and handsome women of the stage.  At any rate, Sophie Chotek belonged to that virile, practical race Bohemians, (also called Czechs) that gave to the world John Huss, who lighted the fires of religious and civil liberty in Central Europe, giving advent later to the work of Martin Luther.

Bohemians had always been liberty-loving.  They had been anxious for three centuries to throw off the yoke of Austria.  There is no record that Sophie Chotek sympathized with the aims of her countrymen or that she was not in complete accord with the views of her husband and the political interests of the empire.  But the experiences of the Germans and Austrians had taught them that a Bohemian was likely to remain always a Bohemian and that his freedom-loving people would not countenance plans having in view the enslavement of other nations.  The Germans may have looked with suspicion upon the Bohemian wife of the archduke and thought it advisable to remove her also.

Prinzip was thrown into prison and kept there until he died.  No statement he may have made ever had a chance to reach the world.  No one knows whether he was a German or a Serbian tool.  He does not seem to have been an anarchist; neither does he seem to have been of the type that would commit such a crime voluntarily, knowing full well the consequences.  It is not hard to believe that he was under pay and promised full protection.

Probably no Bohemian considers Sophie Chotek a martyr; indeed, the evidence is strong that she was not.  Her heart and soul probably were with her royal spouse.  But an interesting outcome is, that her assassination, a contributing cause to the war, finally led to the downfall of Germany, the wreck of Austria, the freedom of her native country, and that Spiritual Emancipation of nations and races, then so gloriously under way.

Also, to the thoughtful and philosophic observer of maturing symptoms transpiring continuously in the affairs of mankind; the fate of those nations of earth that in their strength and arrogance mock the Master, furnish a striking corroborative vindication of the Negro’s faith in the promises of the Lord; the glory and power of His coming.  From the date, reckoning from moment and second, that Gavrio Prinzip done to death the heir to the throne of Austria-Hungary and his duchess, there commenced not alone a new day, a new hope and Emancipation of the whites of earth; empire kingdom, principality and tribe, but of the blacks; the Negro as well, so mysteriously; bewilderingly, moves God His wonders to perform.