The mission was an unmitigated catastrophe. Three of the men (the three without tuberculosis!) ended up unable or unwilling to act, but the boys from Belgrade were different. Cabrinovic was the first to see the archduke on the parade route; he threw a bomb toward Franz Ferdinand’s car but he missed, instead injuring several people in another car. Cabrinovic proceeded to take his cyanide pill, which contained too little cyanide to actually kill him, and then jump into a river where he hoped to drown, except the river ended up only being four inches deep, so he was quickly captured.
