Daily Kennebec journal., 1900-07-31
HUMBERT'S DEATH
Sends a Feeling Of Horror
Around the World.
Affecting Scenes as Wife and Moth
er View the Remains.
Queen Regent Issues Proclamation Announc-
ing Victor's Accession to Throne.

Monza, Italy, July 30.-After the
shooting Of King Humbert, last night
as soon as his majesty's attendants
could realize what had happened, he
was placed in his carriage and driven
as rapidly as possible to the palace.
He was, however beyond human aid.
The expression of the dead Kings
face is tranquil and even smiling. The
corpse was blessed Immediately after
death. 1t viii be embalmed.
1t appears that when King Humbert
was wounded, he exclaimed: 1t Is
nothing" The royal carriage covered
the distance between the Gymnastic
Societys club house, where the crime
was committed, and the royal villa, at
full speed, requiring but three minutes.
The King expired on the way and.
though placed on bed, was dead when
the doctors arrived.
The assassin's name is yariously
given as Angela and Gaetano Bressi.
He was born in Prato, Nov. 10, 1869, and
is a weaver by trade He comes from
America, where he had residence at
Paterson, n. j. He says he had no ac-
completes and that he committed the
crime because of his hatred of mon
archal institutions. He reached Mon
"a, July q, from Milan, where he
stayed a few days.
Bressi is young, tall and swarthy. 1t
appears that he remained four days in
Prato and two days at Bologna, after
which he came here.
When Queen Margharita arrived at
the villa it was still hoped that the
King would survive. and when the
truth was broken to her a heart rend-
ing scene ensued. Bursting into tears
she exclaimed:
1T is the greatest crime of the CEN
tury. Humbert was good and faithful.
No person could have loved his people
more He was one who bore i'll will to
none"
When the Queens mother arrived
there was another affecting scene. The
assassin is strictly guarded in prison.
He continues to preserve absolute in
difference and took his meals, today,
without any sign of being affected by
his position. A second revolver was
found on the public stand in the gym
nastic grounds.
The room where the embalming is
proceeding is already filled with flow
ers. The Queen herself placed a wreath
on the bier and knclt and prayed be-
side the body; and in spite of the en-
treaties of the princes and princesses,
she refused to quit the death chamber,
which is in charge of Count Jurri, the
late Kings aide de camp.
Few additional details of the terribl
tragedy are available. No special pre-
cautions had been taken. Very few
police We're in attendance and only a
small guard of soldiers We're keeping
the way for the carriages. The King
had entered the carriage and was just
driving off when the revolver shots
We're fired. The first shot wounded the
King in the neck. the second, the fatal
one. pierced his heart and the third
broke the arm Of the already dying
sovereign.
The crowd was stunned by the unex-
pected scene, but speedily a rush was
made toward the assassin. He did not
attempt to escape and was roughly
treated until the carbineers formed a
Gordon and secured him from the fury
Of the people. The King fell back and
after his exclamation: 1T is nothing
he did not utter a sound.
The assassin on reaching the guard
room of the carbineers was in a pit
liable condition. his hands and arms
being lacerated and bloody and his
clothes torn by the angry crowd. Re
plying to questions he hissed through
his clenchcd teeth:
Tell them | came from America on
purpose to kill Humbert. | have only
just arrived from America and know
no one. ] spent day at Bologna and
then came On to Milan
Ii now appears that the revolver was OF
American manufacture. of the three
shots fired one entered the fourth inter-
costal space, penetrating the heart; an
other struck the left collar bone and the
third entered the fourth intercostal space.
along the anterior axllary line.