Arrest of Gavrilo Princip, assassin of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, Sarajevo, 28 June 1914, (c1920). "The Crime of Serajevo" - the Ostensible Cause of the War: the Arrest after the Assassination of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his Wife'. Serbian nationalist Gavrilo Princip (1894-1918) is taken into custody by local police after murdering Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the Austrian throne, and his wife Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg. The assassination was one of the causes of the First World War. From "The Great World War - A History" Volume I, edited by Frank A Mumby. [The Gresham Publishing Company Ltd, London, c1920]