The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-07-31
THE REGICIDE
aAs Mild hammered Man as Ever Cut
a Throat or Scuttled Ship"


New York, July 31.-Angelo Bressi,
the assassin of King Humbert, lived in
Paterson, n. J., 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 Angelus
Bressi, and still another, the one by
which he will be known to those who
knew him in Paterson. was Gaetano
BreSSi- He was employed IN HaInll q
Booths silk mills. His close friend
there was Cariboni Sperandio, the man
who a few weeks ago shot down ms
foreman and then killed himself, leaV-
ang behind letter telling how he had
been selected by lot to kill King Hum
bert. and having by choice, owing to his
living so far away from Italy, killed
the foreman instead.
few months ago a man said to be
Count MOleteski, the head of the Italian
anarchists. was in Paterson and during
his stay Sperandio and Bressi We're his
companions and they showed him about
the city and introduced him to others
in the city and who were his mentors
there. 1t would seem that his friend,
having faltered at regicide, Bressi took
np his burden where Sperandio refused
1t and went across the ocean to carry
out the decree that Humbert should
die.
In manners Bressi was quiet Men
who worked beside him in Hamil &
Booths mill say he was the last one
they would select as an assassin 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
Dbediently, but was never one of the
first Each Saturday night he left the
mill and hurried away He Went 10
Hobolxen, where his wife and little girl
are said to live. He never brought
them to Paterson. He remained away
nntil Monday morning He roomed IN
the center of the anarchist section HIS
meals were taken at the Hotel Barthold1-
The proprietor OF the hotel says he
knows the man well. Bressi, according
to the proprietor, came into his place
three times a day for six days a week.
He was never there on Sundays Beyond
bidding the time of day to the prOpr1e-
tor and the waiter he spoke to no one.
He was tail and dark and had STOPPING
shoulders. To some it was known that
his radical ideas were extreme and that
he was of the inner circle of the an
archiStS.
William ]. Orr, the foreman of the
silk mill, said today that had Bressi
asked him for a letter recommending
him to silk manufacturers he would
have written him a strong one He was
good worker on broad goods, he said,
and never raised any trouble.
At the boarding house it was the same
story. He came and went regularly
and never gave any trouble.
Bressi entered the employ of Hamil &
Booth on April 8, 1899 He worked stead
lily there until May T. 1900. On that day
he left the mill and was in Paterson
seldom afterward. On May % last he
sailed on the French line steamer Havre
for Europe. Where he spent the inter-
vening time is not known.
Among the better class of Italians
nothing but words of regret were heard
today over the killing Of King Humbert.
A leading merchant of Paterson who
admitted that his reason for not want
ing his name mentioned was that he
feared the anarchists and the malta,
said he hoped the murder of the king
would lead all nations to take vigorous
steps to stamp out the organization
He said no ones life was safe if he
incurred the enmity of any man in the
organization. In discussing Bressf he
said that he believed there had not
been a drawing, but that Caraboni had
been vouched for by Bressi, that Carl
boni had weakened and Bressi had to
take his place and Cariboni kill him
self
Paterson has long been a hot bed of
anarchists. Men here who were famil-
lar more or less with the workings of
the OranizatiOn say that for years Pat
erSOn has contained more of the society
than any other city in the United States
with the possible exception of Chicago.
There is a strong socialist element in
Paterson and the anarchists formerly
worked with this element without al
lowing the socialists to know that it had
the support of the violent ones
The anarchists tried to control the
socialists and failing dropped away from
the movement and denounced the social
lists because of their peacefulhess and
claimed that they We're traitors, al
though the socialists had never tried
anything but peaceful methods and
were purely political and lawabiding.
The anarchists embraced every strike
In Paterson for long time as a means
of fomenting trouble, and during the
great silk strike three years ago, the
strike which drove the silk industry to
locate factories in different parts of
the country. the anarchists did more