The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-08-01

King Victor Emmanuel III, in as
I cending the throne, has to perform the
| painful duty of announcing to the
/ country the awful calamity which has
violently cut short the valuable life of
/ King HUmbert.
The nation. wounded in its sincere
| affection for the august dead. and in
| a sincere feeling of devotion and adj
heSiOn to the dynasty. while eNecrating
the cruel crime, viii be plunged into
profound grief for the Venerated mem
DRY of a good, brave and magnanimOus
king. the pride of his people. and the
/ worthy perpetratOr of tle traditions
of the house of Savoy, and viii rally
with unshakable loyalty around his
august successor Italians viii prove
/ by their deeds that their institutions do
not die"
The king received the first news of
Z the assassination of his father by SEM
/ aDhore-
Probe Bressi's Record
The police are pushing inquiries in
all directions, but information with re-
| gard TO the assassin BreSsi is not vet
/ very definite. 1t appears that when he
/ was searching for lodgings on Friday
| at MOnza he was accompanied by d,
| young man whom the police are now
! seeking. The pistol the assassin used
was a new and superior weapon
1 marked Massachusetts"
/ The police of Milan searched the
/ house of a man named Ranella and, 1t
/ is reported found important papers
| showing that BreSSi had relations with
/ persons in the United States, and that
| communications had passed between
/ him and them in connection with the
! crime. BreSsi and another man fire.
no m nT71r0 MI rfrag~
were overheard discussing q big scheme
[ that would aStOniSh the world. Every
I thing goes to show that the crime WAS
/ long pTemeditated. and the police are
now being charged with want of fore
sight.
1t appears that the cordOns formed
upon the arrival of the king at the fete
I were withdrawn prior 10 his departure
I As the king was leaving a sort Of
! scuffie occurred, probably pre-aFranged,
to distract the attention Of the car
/ bineers.
! The king was so pleased with his well
! come at Mona and felt so safe that
he turned to his aide and said, I'D like
to return af00t." but he was dissuaded-
{ Death Result Of Plot.
! OF King Humbert is believed to be the
u
! archist recently declared. 50 the Tri-
I buna asserts. that a meeting had been
held in Paris at which lots were drawn
( and several persons were selected to
/ Xiii the king.
/ Besides Bressi. five persons have been
/ take into custody at Mona.
Bressi was born in Prato in 1869. He
/ was denounced IN 1898 as q dangerous
riOter and depOrted to the island OF
/ Pantellaria. In 1896 he was liberated
under the amnesty after the battle of
AdOwa. and in 1881 he went TO the
/ United States
Verdi Asked to Compose Requiem.
/ Queen Margherita has invited Verdi
/ to compose a requiem mass If he de-
clines. Mascagni will be commissioned
As the facts develop it II seen that
warnings OF the crime had been given,
and much Indignation is felt at the fail
Ure of the police To take greater pre-
! cautions. A magistrate examined
: Bressi. who was sullen and defiant, re-
( plying:
Il did not kill Humbert. killed The
king"
/ He admitted that he was in Monza
I park the previous day with a lady. and
angrily protested that what he had
done was not a crime, but an act Of
/ Justice.
Among the persons arrested at PratO
is a woman named Teresa Brugnoli.
said to have been the mistress Of the
assassin.
\ Tuscan named Giusto, who lives in
the house of Remala. in Milan and
other suspects have been arrested there.