The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-08-19
ITALIAN SUSPECTS HELD
Eleven Immigrants Detained by
Secret Service Officials.
No Definite Charges Against Them,
However NoresCa and Guido
Subjected to Rigid Examina-
t;cn - The Greatest Secrecy Com
corning Their Final Disposition.

| hcers, has added eleven TO the number OF
men detained by the immigration officials
in this port because of suspected conuec-
ton with anarchist plots. There is no
definite charge against the men held at
the request of Chief McClusky.
On the other hand charges OF the most
serious character have been made against
Natalie Moresca and Michael Guido. who
were detained yesterday upon their ar
| rival here the Kaiser Wilhelm III.
Papers were prepared in Washington TO
be served on Moresca and Guido. but ere
| found to be incomplete and were return ed
! to Washington for correction. Whether
| the corrected documents were served on
! the men today it was impossible to Learn.
! The utmost secrecy with regard TO all the
! circumstances of the arrest of all the men
| is maintained by police, Secret Service
men, and immigration officials alike. Nor
| esca and Guido are being kept at QIaran-
| tine, and not at Ellis Island or in the
| Barge Office, as is customary in the cases
of immigrants awaiting Investigation.
They were brought to the Barge Office
! today, and were led into room where
| Commissioner of immigration Fitchic. As
sistant Secretary OF the Treasury Taylor,
Chief Agent Hazen of the Secret Service.
| Captain Howard, and DR.. Uller, of the
immigration Bureau, were holding con-
ference and they remained there some
time They were then taken back to Quar-
| antine, where it was absolutely certain no
| one could communicate with th.....
The presence of Assistant Secretary Tay-
lor at the conference aroused a great deal
| of comment among those familiar with
the Barge Office affairs. Mr.. Taylor has
been away from Washington for nearly a
month studying the conditions under which
foreigners enter the United States across
the Canadian frontier. 1t was stoutly as
serted that he had merely stopped off in
this city nhs way back to Washington
and was present by accident at the con-
ference.
Mr.. Taylor's energetic interest In the
Investigation and his apparent anxiety
did not harmonic well with these state
ments. He said today that Secret Servlce
men had traced the baggage of Moresta
and Guido to Hoboken and had examined
1t. Morescas S trunk contained nothing that
would incriminate him. His baggage did
not differ in any way from that which
almost every immigrant brings with him
There were some letters from woman and
a manuscript poem or two Guido's bun
die was even poorer in Its yield Of infor
1t was by advice of A Eomer Byington.
United States Consul at Naples. that the
Washington authorities ordered Moresca
and Guido to be taken off the vessel. Mr..
Byington received information from the
police OF Naples that two Italians were to
sail from that port August /, with intent
to make an Anarchist demonstration in the
United States. presumably against the
President. Byington set close watch on
outgoing vessels.
His information led him TO believe that
the suspected men would sail on the villa
Franca a Neapolitan tramp steamship.
Careful scrutiny was made of the villa
Francois passengers when she sailed. and
the Consul was sure that the men against
whom he had been warned were not on
her. Fresh information came to the Consul
that the men had sailed on the Kaiser Will
helm III. He at once notified the State
Department and the pair were arrested on
arrival here.
The men were turned over to the I'M
migration Bureau after their arrest, and II
was given out that they were simply de-
tanned under immigration regulations.
Moresca as an ex-convict and Guido as
stowaway. They were. however. sent down
to Quarantine. to be locked up there, and
were not allowed to mingle for a moment
with the crowd OF immigrants who are al
ways awaiting examination at the Barge
Office
They were brought to the city at 3
o'clock this afternoon by one of the immi-
grafton bureaus steamers, closely guarded
by Secret Service agents. They were
taken before the consulting officials and
were questioned at great length. The re-
suit OF the questioning was not at all sat
isfactory to the officials. At its conclusion
the prisoners were returned to coEine
ment.
Meanwhile Guido had been permitted to
telegraph Antonio Guido. S64 Third Ave-
nue., who says he is the prisoners brother.
Antonio came down to the Battery with
lawyer, Max G. Wildnauer, of 800 Broad
way. Antonio Guido said
My brother is a sailor. He was an
Italian marine for many years. don't
believe that he is an Anarchist. never
heard that he had any Anarchist IDEAS. He
was never in prison. He has wanted for
many years to come to this country.
Commissioner Fitchie said that MOresea
and Guido were lot held nt the request OF
any foreign Government. They were be
ing held, he said 10 await the arrival Il
evidence that as coming from MAJ les and
Paris.
An immigration official was responsible
for the statement today that Mr. Byington
had learned after Moresca's departure that
Moresca. in an Anarchist meeting, said in
effect: "Bresci was a hero / am going
to America to kill the tyrant there as he
came from America to kill our tyrant"
Captain McCluskey's work at the Barge
Office was carried on without the knowl-
edge of any OF the official o, the National
Government On August McCluskey re-
ceived word from the chief of the detec-
tive bureau OF Paris. telling him that a
dangerous set OF Anarchists was making
its way to this country from Italy. The
! Paris detectives learned thai on or about
August ! a number of Anarchists were to
sail from Mediterranean ports with intent
TO do mischief in this country.
McCluskey at onte assigned Detective
PetrosinC of his staff, to pick out the
dangerous men as they arrived. In some
way which was not disclosed Petrosiuo
managed to gain admission to the Gaten-
ton pens without the object of his pres
eirce there being known to Commissioner
Fitchie or any of his subordnates. Pstro-
sino mingled with the allan immigrants
for fourteen days, passing as one OF them
selves.
After the arrest of Moresca and Guido
on Friday Captain McCluskey realized that
the men for whom all his precautions were
set had fallen TO other hands. He accord
| ingly vert to the commissioner today with
list of narles OF men in the detention
pens who had been found by Detective
| PetTosino TO be Anarchists. These men
were az picked out Of the pens and were
set aside for particularly rigic investiga-
tion by the board Of special enquiry, which
will decide as 20 their admission to this
country. They were not put under arrest
! The Secret Service officers are said to
| be very desirCus Of holding as meny An
archists as they can on definite charges
| on which the men can be Imprisoned in
thi scountry. II Moresea is simply de-
ported it was explained. today he may
| re- enter tbs country a any other port