The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-07-31
BreSSi, the Assassin, Had Recently Arrived
in Italy From Paterson, N. J.
WENT ABROAD IN MAY FOR PURPOSE OF MURDER.
He Made No Attempt to Escape and Was Protected From
the Fury Of the People by the Police-Al
the World Is Mortified at
the Act.

which he was known 10 those who knew
him In Paterson. was Tano Bressi. He
was employed In Hamn q Booths silk
mills His close friend there was carihcni
Sperandio the man who few weeks ago
shot down his foreman and then killed
himself, leaving behind a letter telling
how he had been selected by lot to kill
King Humbert, and having by choice.
owing to his living so far away from
Italy. killed the foreman instead.
Became an Anarchist.
A few months ago a man said to bs
Count Moletski. the head OF the Italian
anarchists. was in Paterson. and during
his stay Snorandio and Isressi were his
companions. and they showed him about
the city and introduced him to others In
the city who were his mentors there.
1t would seem that his friend At rcgt-
eide. Bressi, took up his burden where
Sperandio refused II. and went across the
ocean to carry out the decree that Hum
bert should die
Has . wife In Hoboken.
In manners Bressi was quiet Men who
worked beside him say he was the last
one they would select as an assassin. He
spoke little. and volunteered nothing
about himself. when there was shop
cali and the men went on one OF their
numerous strikes, Brsssi left his looms
obedientiy, but was never one Of the slrrt.
Each Saturday night he left the min
and hurried away. He went TO Hobcken.
where his wife and little girl are said to
live. He never brought them to pnter-
son. He remained away until Monday
morning. He roomed in the center of nu
anarchist saloon. His meals were eaten
at ths Hotel Bartholdi The propristor
says he knows the man we'll Brensi. Ao-
oording 70 the propristor. came into NJ
| ptace thtee tirneu = day Tor six dayo =
! week. He was never there on sundays
Was = Gosa werkman.
Beyond bidding the time OF day 10 the
proprietor and the waiter, he spoke to no
one. He was tall and dark and had stoop-
ing shoulders. To some II was known
that hts radical ideas were extreme. and
that he WAS of the inner circle OF tbs
anarchists.
| William j. Orr. the foreman OF the ain
| min, said today that had Bres.t asked
/ him for letter recommending him "a
siA manufacturers. he would have given
him a strong one. He was good work.
man on broad goods. he said, and never
raised any trouble,
| Al The boarding house II was the ssms
story. iie came and went regularly ana
| never gave any trouble.
Bressi entered the employ OF JIamil 4
Booth on April &, 1924 lie worked sseadt-
| iy through uniii May 4. 1860 4s then iaft
the nsin and was In Paterson hut seldom
Mterwards ON May y last his sailed on
the French line steamer Harr. Tor Eu-
rope. Where he spent the Intervening
/ time IL not known.
Resr~f of isaiisas.
Among the better class ol Italians moth.
inK but words of regret we're heard TO-
day over the killing Of King Humbert.
Z leading merchant of Paterson. who aa-
rnitted that his f*HAon for not wanting
his name mentioned wsa that he feared
the anarchists and the Malta. said hs
hoped the murder % The king would lead
AL nationa 70 take vigorous steps 10
etafpp out the Organization. He naia no
ones life Was safe II he Incurred the en-.
nifty 81 any man ia tho Organization. In
dieeHs*lrK isresAt, be aai1 he believed
that there had nas be@n drAwinx. that
4 cafieoni had been gouehed for by nrasai.
that Cariboai had weakened ana isresa
had 20 take hls place ana CAribons Killed
himself.
uetbed .f ANARCHY.
/ Paterson has long hessn hgabsd af an.
arehssts. Men here ~he wers familiar
mofs % less vith the workings % tbs Or
gmHixation say Ter years Paterson has
contained snors Of tine society than May
/ other city. Wsth she possgb.. exception
I o. Chicago Tnefe u a strong socialist
eismens N Patterson ana the Anarchists
formerly worked with this slemens With
cst allowing the socialists 10 know that
I IL tsas ths sappMrf ~ ,be violent ones.
The Anarchists tried 70 control the rs-
ciailAts, and failing, dreppad away frefa
ihe movement and denounced the social
lists frcAass u iheif pesreguineaw. ana
+ claimed that they sure ffAltors although
the socialists had never tried anything
hst peaceful msshoaa aad mera purasy
I potsstai ard lau-sAting Tas anarchists
embraced every sffske in Patterson Tor
bong tirns ~ a nsene of fomentinN tta
\ trouble and during sha atgl&e thseN y4Ass
$50. ths strike ~hlch arave fha silk ID
+ ausiry % iocsta factoftss 10 different
parts ~ the egDntrs. the anarchists dsd
mufe ihan nnyeBe eisc to bring about tbs
I removal u the manufactures. They uaed
dynamite. ard though their efforts 70 ds-
sfrgy faes0ry buildings were frustrated.
they created Each a feeling 81 gneass-
uess that manufacturers Withdrew
Whan fhe smFEefs a Apalrla was usur-
deesd ihs local anarchists Sad bsg dele
( hEati9n bat not epanly when the news
came shey Slipped aat of the city and as
serab.ed al a prearganged pGnf. where
they held their ;oiliacation. As they had