Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1894-07-31
LETTERS.
HOW cARNoT's MURDERER DEFINED
HIS CREED TO HIS FRIENDS.
willing TO Die for Revsngc-Wrnpped Up
in tho Welfare Of Ansrchy's
Cause.
New York Press.)

letters OF Santo cesario, the assassin OF
President Carnot. which will be put In
| evidence at his forthcoming trial for life.
They are addressed to wel-known An
| archlsts. WIS are either in the custody
OF the police. or now being hunted all over
| Europe:
LAUSANNE. July 3, 1890.
| Dear Contradict am sorry to make
| you pay extra postage for this letter.
but l feel a wild yearning 10 write 10
YOU. and I am without sou. found
| 1t impossible TO secure work here, and the
gendarmes of this free republic OF
Switzerland tried to keep me five days
| in prison Just because i was without
PASSPORT IL would have pleased them
very much. | think, TO turn me over TO
the Italian police. but they could not
do 1t, because am only political crimi-
nal. They arrested me when ! was ten
kilometers distant from Lausanne ana
brought me to the French frontier. which
| is 10 kilometers away. so | had TO walk
over the whole ground twice. As | can
not find work. / will have to 40 to Ge-
ueya. and that without penny. IL the
| comrades l.. and NJ. are still bound on
| leaving Italy, tell them To proceed 10
Geneva by way OF Turin. The comrades
along the route viii show them the way.
warn them against leaving without pass
ports. for If one wanders on foot the
gandarmes are always asking for ones
papers. | am yours to the knife.
"SANTO CESARIO."
The following lettef bears no date.
but was probably posted in Cette, some
time last winter. This Is n small place
near Lyons from where Cesario pro-
ceeded to the latter city 10 murder Presi-
dent Carnot. 1t will be remembered that
the assassin. upon his arrest there, swore
that he was in Lyons for the first time.
The letter proves that statement untrue.
ard, furthermore, that the writer had
probably friends among the Lyons An
archists:
my Dear Contradict was In Lyons for
one month, and two weeks worked as
a porter: aft r that 1 got a job in Vienna
as a baker. taking the place Of a Journey
man. who had gone home to his family.
At present ! am 'garoOn' In a bakery at
Cette"
Ce.ario then goes on to explain the
manner in which bread Is manufactured
in France. and continues:
Il am getting fifteen francs n month
and my board and lodging. That is not
much, but hope to stand II for the win
ter. In the spring Will have other work
to perform. l travelled from Lyons to
Cette in pretty good style. Every forty
to fifty kilometers I found groups Of
French comrades (Anarchsts) who
treated fellow Ike me- hungry for
their sympathy and aid. very Hospitality.
Yours. SANTO CESARIO."
The letter has significant postscript,
which seems TO indicate that the con-
spiracy TO murder President CarnOt was
hatched much earlier than Is generally
accepted. The postscript reads:
Greetings TO Comrsde u. and all other
friends. Write only to the address given
below. 50 that nobody viii know where
am. This is only a small place. where
the police might easily find one II sus-
picions are aroused. Let me know all
about the anarohistic movement in Milan.
and especially ten me If the bakers are
now members Of our anarchistic COM
munity"
The address given is "Saurel Ernest, IS
Rue DE- lHOspce. Cette."
Twenty days before the great crime was
committed by him. Cesario wrote to an
Anarchist. now in the custody Of the
French police, as follows:
"CETTE June 8. 1891
Dear CONTRADICTION friend +. is in
Lugano. ! sent francs To him; couldn't
spare more. / expect to see him here
unless he finds work in Italy. | am de-
lighted 10 hear that our ldear Is pro-
crossing favorably Do all you can for
Comrade g. REGARDING your remark about
emigrating TO France, / must advise you
to stay ia Milan. for you will be able 10
do more for anarchy there than here.
where no one understands our language.
Every Anarchist not In trouble with the
police or the military authorities should
stay I'm his own country, where he can
recruit friends for the great cause among
his own people. | am almost wild with
rage on account Of my inability to talk
in the meetings Of our comrades. My
ideas must be buried here. But do not
want to persuade you; everybody should |
be- allowed 60 do as he pleases.
"SANTO CESARIO.
with Baker Biala. Z Avenue Victor |
Hugo. Cette."
The above. which Ills three pages, Is |
written in an ordinary style, though the |
letters are badly drawn. The fourth page !
# the paper is covered by the following |
sentences in big letters, which seem 10 |
have been jotted down I'm a hurry. or
while the writer was laboring under great |
excitement:
Long live the republ!c-and the guillo-
tine for our comrades.
Long live Spain and It's sharpshooters |
who will kill six Of our comrades
But they Will be revenged-some day |
Death TO the bOurgeoisie. Long live an |
arChy,
1T Is true. as an Anarchist, / should !
know no scruples. Inasmuch as | am poor |
and in want | should not respect other |
peoples property. but take wherever there |
IS plenty But / confess. ut the present |
moment. | do not feel strong enough To- |
take a bourgeois by the throat. and. per- |
haps | will sell my labor to the first |
bloodsucker who comes along.
"Postscript-I know one thing; even II |
! am not desperate to-day. If | do not |
feel il in me TO knock down a bourgeois, |
when the day OF vengeance has arrived |
l viii fill my place and my vengeance |
shall be of a terrible nature"
CESARIO'S CREED.
In a letter To friend I'm Italy just |
discovered. CesariO makes a sort Of con- |
fession as 10 his political creed. 1t ap- |
pears that a friend OF his youth had |
asked the ASSASSIN shortly before the |
Lyons tragedy happened. to return to
Italy. for his mothers sake.
Cesaro writes:
MY Dear Contradiction say my mother |
and my brothers are suffering. That is |
true: but they would have to suffer even |
il | should return for a sentence OF four |
months imprisonment Is awaiting me- |
and after that I would have TO join the |
military All this time | would be sepa |
rated from my mother And then, you |
know my character. | could not stand |
the many petty annOyances TO which sol |
dters are sub j-cted and when a fellow is |
armed with a loaded musket. a shot IS |
easily fred | would be judlciously killed |
then, would | nOtY or at least sent to |
prison for life.
But let Us suppose for arguments |
sake, that | finished Off my three years |
In the army without killing anybody. |
You say | would be a free man after that. |
Yes. indeed. / would be allowed 10 stay |
in Italy, but would the sunerngs OF my |
mother and my brothers be at an end? |
Il cannot remain idle and unmoved by |
the Injustice practicsd al around us. | |
must protest At all costs. And IL | do !
protest | will be put into prison, AMI !
my poor mother must again suffer. It |
seems | was born 10 make her suffer. |
When | 20 to bed | often think Of my |
mother and my brothers and OF the an |
euish / have caused them. Then | cry, !
cry cry.
But presently another thought. !
stronger all-powerful, becomes upper |
most i'm my mind. This thought says 1t |
IS not myself who causes suffering 10 my |
mother-it Is society; the bourgeois make |
her miserable. Therefore, | must fight |
society, without thinking of the tears OF |
my mother and brothers.
III war breaks out every second man |
leaves his mother, wife, or child and |
offers himself for slaughter Why? In |