The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-07-31
BREssIs LIFE IN AMERICA.
Assassin Was Knokn as a Quiet and
Peaceful Man.

CdE-lu1 MAN.
New York, July SO-AngeIo Rressf
lived in Paterson for over a year. He
| appeared to have had various names.
The one he gave last night when taken
/ into custody for the murder Of the king
OF Italy was one. Another was AngeIus
BreSSi, and still another. the one bv
winch he was known to those who knew
MN in Paterson, was Caetano Bressi
lie was employed in Hamil &, Booths
silk mills His close friend there was
Car1bont SDerandiO. the man who. a
| few weeks ago, shot down his fore
man and then killed himself. leaving
| behind letter telling that he had been
selected by lot 10 kill King Humbert.
and having his choice. owing to his
| living so far from Italy. had killed the
| foreman instead.
few months ago d man said to be
Count MOletski, the head of the Italian
| anarchists, was in Paterson. During
his stay SperandiO and BreSSi were his
/ companions, and they showed him
about the city and introduced him to
others who were his mentors there. 1t
would seem tina, when his friend died
/ Regicide Bressi took uD the burden
/ that Sperandi0 refused and went across
/ the ocean to carry out the decree that
4 Hunbert should die.
Quiet in His Manner.
! In manners Bressi was quiet Men
/ who worked beside him say he was the
| last one they would select as an as
! sassin- He spoke little and volunteered
nothing about himself
| When there was a shop call and the
/ men went on one of their numerous
! strikes, Bressi left his looms obedientIy.
/ but was never one of the first Each
! Saturday night he left the mill and
I hurried away He went to Hoboken,
/ where his wife and little girl are said
/ to live. He never brought them to
| Paterson. He remained away until
/ Monday morning. He rOomed in the
| center of an anarchist saloon.
! His meals were taken at the Hotel
/ BarthOldi The proprietor Of the hotel
| says he knows the man we'll. Bressi.
/ according TO the proprietor. came into
/ his place three times d day for six days
a week. He was never there on Sun
days.
The Usual Formal Salutation.
Beyond the usual formal salutation
4 to the proprietor and the waiter he
| spoke to no one He was tall and dark
and had STOPPING shoulders. To some
1t was known that his radical ideas
were extreme, and that he was of the
| inner circle of the ana -chiStS.
William J. Orr. the foreman of the
silk mill. said today that had BreSsI
asked him for a letter recommending
him to silk manufac turers he would
have gotten him a strong one. He was
a good workman on broad goods he
said, and never raised any trouble.
At the boarding house it was the
same story He came and went regu-
larly, and never gave anv trouble.
Bressi entered the employ Of HamiI
I q Booth on April S. 1899 He worked
steadily there until May /. 1890. On
( that day he left the mill and was in
Paterson but seldom afterward. May
! z last he sailed on the French lire
steamer Havre for Europe Where he
spent the intervening time is not
/ known.
Shooting Is Condemned.
| Among the better class of Italians
nothing but words Of regret were heard
/ today over the killing OF King Hum
/ bert. A leading merchant of Paterson.
| who admitted that his reason for not
! wanting his name mentioned was that
| he feared the anarchists and the Malta.
| said he hoped the murderer of the king
! would lead all nations to take VigOT-
/ Gus steps to stamp out the Organiza-
| ton. He said no ones life was safe if
| he incurred the enmity of any man in
! the organization.
In discussing Bressi. he said he be
| lieved that there had been a drawing.
/ that CaribOni had been vouched for
| by Bressi, that Cariboni had weakened
and Bressi had to take his place and
| Cariboni kill himself.
Paterson has long been a hOtbed Of
anarchists. Men here who were IA
miliar more or less with the workings
| of the organization say for years Pater-
| son has contained more of the society
| than any other city. with the possible
| exception of Chicago. There IS p
| strong socialist element in Paterson
and the anarchists formerly worked
| with this element without allowing the
| socialists TO know that il had the sup
! port Of the violent ones.
| The anarchists tried to control the
| socialists, and falling dropped away
| from the movement They denounced
| the socialists because Of their peace
! fitness and claimed that they were
traitors. although the socialists had
never tried anything but peaceful
/ methods and were purely political and
law abiding.
Used Dynamite in Strikes.
The anarchists embraced every strike
| in Paterson for a long time as a means
/ of fOmenting trouble. and during the
great silk strike three years ago. which
drove the silk industry to fOcate facto-
ries in different parts of the country,
| the anarchists did more than any one
/ else to bring about the removal OF the
manufacturers. They used dyne ute,
| and although their efforts to - -oy