Connecticut western news., 1900-08-02
KING HUMBERT.

would survive, and when the truth was broken to her a heartrending scene en- sued. Bursting into tears, she ex- claimed:
 ''It is the greatest crime of the century. Humbert was good and faithful. No per son could have loved his people more. He was one who bore i'll will to none."
 The assassin's name is yariously given as Angelo and Gaetno Bressi. He was born in Prato Nov. 10, 1869, and is weaver by trade.
 He comes from America, where he had resided at Paterson, N. J. He says he had no accomplices and that he com mitted the crime because of his hatred of monarchical institutions.
 He was known in Paterson as Cactano Bresci. He was an employee of the Hamil x Booths silk mills. His clos, friend there was Cariboni Sperandio, the man who a few weeks ago shot down his foreman and then killed himself leaving behind 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 fore man instead. A few months ago a man said to be Count Moleteski, the head ot the Italian anarchists. was in Paterson. and during his stay Sperandio and Bresci were his companions, and they showed him about the city and introduced him to others in the city and were his men tors there. It would seem that. his friend having faltered at regicide, Bresci took up his burden where Sperandio refused it and went across the ocean to carry out the decree that Humbert should die.
 Life of King Humbert.
 Umberto I. Reniero Carlo Emanuele Giovanni Maria Ferdinando Eugenio was the eldest son of Victor Emmanuel II by his wife Adelaide, archduchess of Aus tria, and was born at Turin on March 14, 1S44. During his fathers lifetime he bore the title of Prince of Piedmont. Though only 15 years of age, he took part in the campaign of 1859 that re suited in the annexation of Lombardy to Italy. In the next war with Austria, in 1866, he was in command of divi- sion under General Cialdini and showed desperate courage in the defeat of the Italians at Custozza.
 He was married April 9, 1868, to his first cousin, Princess Margherita, daugh- ter of the Duke of Genoa. The marriage was one of political convenience- The house of Savoy was in bad odor with the other Catholic reigning houses of Europe owing to the turning out of the various Bourbon families from Italy, and 1t was impossible to find bride for the Italian crown prince among them. Though there have been frequent hints that Um- berto had not always been faithful to his marriage vows, he and his queen always observed the proprieties and seemed to be on good terms.
 The last attempt upon the life of King Humhert was made on the afternoon of April 22, 1897. The king was proceed ing to the Campanella race track, when a man approached the carriage on the pretext of presenting a petition to the king. As he reached the carriage door with a scroll in one hand he drew a dag ger with the other and lunged at Hum bert. The king parried the blow, and the assailant, who proved to be Pietro Ac- ciarita, an insane young blacksmith, was arrested by the royal escort. The king then went on to the races as if noth- ing had occurred and received an ova. tion.
 On Nov. 17. 1878, an attempt was made to assassinate the king in Naples. Humbert had been a remarkably gen erous man and was generally beloved by his people.
 ItaIy's New King and Queen. Vittorio Emanuele Ferdinando Maria Gennaro, who succeeds his father to the throne of Italy, was the only son of King Humbert. He was born on Nov. | II, 1S69 and has the repute of being a | liberal, scholarly and soldierly man. He | is a general in the Italian army and Q | patron of art and literature. He is a | chevalier of the order of the Golden Fleece and Knight of the Garter. His wife, Italy's new queen, was the Princess Helen, one of the seven daugh- | ters of Prince Nicolas, the ruler of the | little principality of Montenegro. She was born in the royal palace in CettinjC in 1873.