Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-08-01
STORY Of bRESs|
HAD NOT A CLKAR RECORD Al
HIS HOME.
PRACTICED TARGET SHOOTING,
Was Of Horose, Breeding Disposition
Restless, and Always in Labor
Troubles.

New York. Aug. 1.-The Worlds cor
respondent at Florence. Italy. yesterday
made trip to Prato, where he obtained
a detailed account Of the antecedents Of
Gaeteno Bressi. the assassin OF King
Humbert. and of his movements prior to
the assassination. Gaeteno Bressi was
o November 10. 1863 in Cojano. a
mile from Prato. a manufacturing town
OF $4,000 inhabitants. beautifully situated
fifteen miles north of Florence. Hetbe-
gan work as a shoemaker. but studied
IN a school. at Prato for a time,
and thus became a weaver, which avoca-
ton he followed for eight a at Fab
rocones' large factory in Prato.
After a strike in 1892 ne left Prato and
went to work in Unnini's factories. at
Florence. A year later he returned to
Prato. where he was employed in Zeloni's
mill.
He must have been of a restless. row
ing disposition. for he left Prato again
for Lucca on January %, 1898, and sailed
from Genoa for New York on February
z or the same year. Bressi returned to
Prato on June 4 last, and about that
time the Italian consul in New York ad-
vlsed the authorities in Italy that Bressi
had interested himself in anarchial
newspapers published at Paterson, N. j..
edited by C~iancabelli and Malatesta, rev.
dictionary. Bressi Travelled to New York
via Paris and on June IA applied to the
municipal authorities of Prato for a
birth certificate. that he might secure a
permit to carry arms. This was refused
because of his character and past offens-
es which he had committed against the
municipality. On June 16 he secured
a passport for New York, describing
himself as a shoemaker. Early in July
he went in castle San Petro to visit two
of his young nieces.
On the evening Of July Is. he took the
train for Milan via Bologna.
Bressi is tall n slender, with an olive
complexion, dark eyes and a slight mus
tache. His mother died February, 1891,
and his father in 1895. The assassin has
two brothers, one Lorenzo. a shoemaker
at Cojano, three years older than him
self. n the other, Algiolo, for whom the
murderer appears to have been at first
mistaken. Angiolo is eight years older
than the assassin and is a lieutenant of
artillery stationed at Caserta.
Lorenzo Bressi. interviewed at Cojano,
by the World correspondent, said:
Il knew of Gaeteno's anarchist opin-
ions. but never attached any Importance
to them. I always thought him a quiet
good natured fellow. though unsettled.
For my part I curse the anarchists,
my opinion being that for working. men
like us the chance to eat, drink and work
should be enough, as I don't think much
about politics Gaeteno, who was always
interested in SUCH matters. was quite
peculiar in our family in that respect"
The police today visited LorenZo's
house and tool charge of Bressi's be-
longings, including a target at which he
practiced with a revolver. ."t -
The family is deeply distressed atsthe
disgrace which has fallen upon, their
name. They showed Gaeteno'str photo
graph to the World correspondent as
proof of his quiet appearance, and ex-
hibited q letter recently received from
him for the purpose of showing that in
it he made no reference to the assassina-
ton of King Humbert.
Gateno's old nurse. Maria Relli. was
also appalled, and grief stricken blythe
crime which her foster o had commit
ted. H was always good hearted and
of a sweet disposition" she exclaimed,
but found evil influences"
The town of Prato is draped in mourn
ing for the murdered king. Manufac-
tories are closed and troops have been
ordered there. The police are actively
on the lookout for probable accomplices
OF Gateano. He had many anarchist
friends in the town. who are under police
surveillance, and although his relatives
naturally enough pretend to esteem him,
his fellow workmen and the citizens gen.
orally who knew him disliked him for his
sinister and brooding disposition, which