Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1900-08-09


One pierced the heart of his mai
.esty, who fell back and expired in
few minutes.
The assassin was Immediately ar
rested and was, with some difficulty,
saved from the fury of the populacs.
He gave his name as Angelo Bressi,
describing himself as of Prato, in
Tuscany.
Monza, July 31.-Whcn King Hum
bert was wounded he exclaimed: 1T
is nothing" The royal carriage COW
cred the distance between the Gym
nastic socicty's club house, where the
crime was committed. and the royal
villa, at full speed. The king expired
on the way.
Bressi is young, tall and swarthy.
1t appears that he remained four
days in Prato and two days at Bo.
logna, after which he came here.
When Queen Marghcrita arrived at
the villa and the truth was broken to
her a heartrending scene ensued,
The assassin is strictly guarded in
prison. He continues to preserve ab-
solute Indifference and took his meals
yesterday without any sign of being
affected by his position. A second
revolver was found on the public
stand in the gynnastic grounds.
Few additional details of the trag-
edy are available. 1t happened so
quickly and unexpectedly that the
king was dead almost before thu
spectators realized what had occur
red.
No special precautions had been
taken. Very few police were in at
tendance and only small guard of
soldiers was keeping the way clear
for the carriage. The king, amid the
cheers of the crowd, came out smil-
ing, accompanied by his aide-de-camp,
Gen. Vaglia. lie had entered the
carriage and was just driving off,
when three revolver shots were fired
in quick succession. Some witnesses
assert that Bressi was seen Just pre-
viously waving his hands and cheer
ing. The first shot wounded the king
N 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 I'M
NNlVNttu StVhO, DuG ii iuoIi
was made toward the assassin. lie
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 assassin, on reaching the guard
room of the carbincers, 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 said:
Tell them | came from America
on purpose to kill Humbert. | have
only just arrived from America and
know no one. / spent day at Bo-
logna and then came on to Milan"
Rome, July 31.-The excitement
and emotion here consequent upon
the assassination of King Humbcrt
is momentarily intensifying. People
are seen to snatch newspapers from
the venders and eagerly peruse them
in the stress, openly weeping for
their sovereign and eXecrating the
infamous crime. All the shops are
closed, and the nation is in mourn
ing.
Paterson, n. j., July 31.--The ru-
NOR that Angelo Bressi, who was ar
rested at Monza, Italy, for the assas-
sinatiop of King Humbert, had lived
here, caused quite a sensation in the
Italian quarter. Yesterday after a
,diligent search among the Italians, it
was learned that q silk weaver named
Angelo Bressi, aged about 20 years,
had worked in the silk mills owned
by Hamil d. Booth in this city, up to
May z last. He left for Italy about
that date and nothing has been heard
of him since. During his stay here,
which was about six months, he lived
at the Hotel Bartholdi. Those who
knew him say that he was of queer
temperament and inoffensive.