Assassin Held.

New York Times 100 years ago today, March 20, 1913:
    SALONIKA, March 19.— The assassin of King George of Greece is still held in close confinement. At various periods throughout last night he was forced to undergo examinations, which failed to elicit any facts to show that other persons were implicated in the crime.
    Aleko Schinas, it is now said, is not a madman, but apparently is weak-minded. He lived by begging, and three weeks ago came to Salonika by way of Athens. He stopped for a few days at his birthplace, Volo, Thessaly, where he delivered harangues, in which he declared that in a short time he would succeed in establishing equality; that there would no longer be either rich or poor, and that work which was now accomplished in one hour would be spread out over two.
    Interrogated as to why he assassinated the King, Schinas replied:
    "I had to die somehow, as I suffer from neurasthenia, and therefore wished to redeem my life."
    He appears to have led a wretched existence, subsisting almost entirely on milk. His family have long ceased to acknowledge him.
    Schinas for a time was an instructor in the medical department of the University of Athens. He refuses to give any explanation of his crime beyond the fact that two years ago he applied for assistance at the palace and was driven away by an aid de camp.
    The premeditation of the regicide appears to be established by the fact that Schinas lurked in hiding. He rushed out when his royal victim was within six feet of him and fired pointblank into the back of the King, who at the time was only a few yards from Police Headquarters.
    The body of King George was embalmed to-day, and removed from the hospital to the palace on a stretcher borne by his son, Prince Nicholas; several of the dead monarch's aids de camp, and other superior officers of the Greek Army, who took turns in carrying the stretcher.
    It was a strangely diversified procession, consisting of regular troops in their campaign outfit, officers in brilliant uniforms, clergy, civilians, Cretans, Greeks, Mussulmans, and members of the various Balkan races in a kaleidoscopic variety of costumes.
    Soldiers of the Greek Light Infantry, in their quaint kilts, closely surrounded the humble military stretcher which was in the middle of the procession, and which traversed the spot where King George was shot down yesterday afternoon.
    On the arrival of the procession at the Palace, military honors were rendered. The body was then placed on a bier in the main chamber, the Greek Metropolitan offered prayer, and the civil and military authorities filed past. Many of the spectators burst into tears.
    A guard of honor, consisting of Greek Captains and priests, the latter continually chanting prayers, will remain permanently stationed around the body until it is removed for burial.