The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-07-31
hut Was Believed tn Hold Extreme
Views and to he One Of the
Inner Circle of 'sRedS."
sPERANzA HIS WARM FRIEND
ITALIAN WHO HAD BEEN CHOSEN
TO KILL ITALY'S KING,
But Who Shot His Foreman and Then
Ended His Own Life-A Hot
bed of Anarchists.

NEW 1ORh, July oU-AHgelo breSsi
lived in Paterson, for over year. He ap-
peared to have had various names. The
custody for the murder of the King of
Italy was Angelo Bressi Another was An
gelus Bressi and still another, the one by
which he will be known to those who knew
him i'm Paterson, was Gaetano Bressi. He
was employed in Hamil & Booths silk
mills His close friend there was Cariboni
Speranza, 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 a choice. owing TO
his living so far away from Italy, killed
the foreman instead.
a few months ago a man said to be Count
Moleteski, the head of the Italian Anar-
chists, was in Paterson. and during his
stay, Speranza and Bressi were his COM
panions. 1t would seem that his friend.
having faltered at regicide, Bressi took up
his burden and went across the ocean to
| carry out the decree that Humbert should
| die.
In manner Bressi was quiet Men who
worked beside him say he was the last one
| they would select as ar assassin. He spoke
| little and volunteered nothing about him
| self When there was shop call and the
| men went on one of their numerous strikes.
| Bressi left his looms obedently, but was
never one of the first. Each Saturday
| night he left the mill and hurried to Ho-
| boken where his wife and little girl are
| said to live, and never brought his family
| 10 Paterson. Bressi roomed i'm the center
| of the Anarchist section. His meals were
| taken at the Hotel Barthold. The proprie-
| tor of the hotel says he knows the man
| well. Bressi, according to the proprietor,
| came into his place three times day for
| six DAYS a week. He was never there on
| Sundays Beyond bidding the time of day
| to the proprietor and the waiter he spoke
to no one. He was tall and dark and had
stopping shoulders. To some it was known
4 that his radical ideas were extreme and
| that he was of the inner circle of Anar
| chists
| William ]. Orr. the foreman of the silk
mill, said to-day that had Bressi asked him
for letter recommending him to silk man.
| ufacturers, he would have written him a
strong recommendation. Bressi was a
| good workman on broad goods, he said,
and never raised any trouble AT the board
| ing house it was the same story. He came
| and went regularly and never gave any
| trouble.
| SAILED ON MAY p.
| Bressi entered the employ of Hamil &
| Booth on April s, 1899. He worked steadily
| there until May 4, 1900 On that day he left
| the mill and was in Paterson, but seldom
afterward On May % last he sailed on the
| French line steamer Havre for Europe.
| Where he spent the intervening time it
not known.
| Among the better class of Italians MOTH
| ing but words of regret were heard to-day
| over the killing of King Humbert. A lead
| ing merchant of Paterson. who admitted
| his reason for not wanting his name men
toned was that he feared the Anarchists
| and the Malta, said he hoped the murder of
| the King would lead all nations TO take
| vigorous steps TO stamp out the organiza-
| ton He said no ones life safe If he
| incurred the enmity of any man in the or
| ganization. In discussing Bressi, he said
he believed there had not been drawing,
but that Cariboni had been vouched for by
| Bressi: that Cariboni had weakened and
Bressi had to take his place and Cariboni
killed himself.
Paterson has long been a hotbed OF
Anarchists. Men here who are familiar
more or less with the workings of the or
sanization say that for years Paterson has
contained more Of the society than any
other city in the United States. with the
/ IF fc n
strong Socialist element in Paterson ard
the Anarchists formerly worked with this
element without allowing the Socialists tc
know that IL had the support Of the violent
ones. The Anarchists tried to control the
Socialists and failing dropped away from
that movement, denounced the Socialists
because of their peacefulness and claimed
they were traitors, although the Socialists
had never tried anything but peaceful
methods and were purely political and
law-abiding.
| The Anarchists embraced every strike in
Paterson for a long time as a means ol
| fomenting trouble. During the great sill
| strike three years ago. when that industry
was compelled 10 locate factories i'm differ.
cnt parts OF the country. the Anarchist:
| did more than any one else 10 bring about
the removal of the manufactures They usec
dynamite and, although their efforts Il
destroy factory buildings were mostl,
frustrated. they created such a feeling Of
uneasiness that the manufacturers moved
When the Empress of Austria mur
dered the local Anarchists had big cele
bration. but not openly. When the new,
came they slipped out of the city and as
sembled at a prearranged point. wher,
they held their jollihcation and when 4
was over returned to Paterson. Al the,