The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-09-01
SPIES IN PATTERSON.
The Italian Government Seeks to Get Anarchists
Into It's Power.

OF Italy is slowly weaving about the
pen whom it suspects in having had
hand in the killing of it's king. Up to
date the anarchists have caught and
received confessions from FIVE spies.
Two of their number hsye been Iured
over to Italy and are ETawn to be in
prison there. while a third has mys-
teriously disappeared Where? No one
other side at the rir of the killing
have been apprei e by means of
the information furnished by these
spies and are serving terms in Italian
prisons.
Next in Importance to Innocente was
the spy Segura, whom the anarchists
discovered about a month ago. A de-
tailed account of his work and his re-
port to the Italian government were
phrinted in the World There were no
Unusual incidents connected with Sc
gura's discovery. the. detective knowing
tEat he was found out and leaving the
city abruptly.
There were exciting times, however,
when the anarchists learned that Eu-
geniO RiSpOli was acting as a govern
ment agent among them. He mysteri-
ously disappeared from Paterson, but
was discovered in the anarchist colony
at Barre, VT. The colony up there con-
sists Of 200 members, and when they
learned that he was among them a
number of them rushed in and bound
and gagged him. He was then taken
TO the house of a comrade, where he
was locked in a cell. The anarchists
were undecided what to do with him
and communicated with the leaders of
the Paterson group. Before a reply was
received, however, the police of Barre
heard Of the occurrence and rescued
Rispoh He told the police after his re-
lease that he had never expected to
leave his cell alive.
The third spy to be discovered was
A. Guidelli. He was found among the
New York colony of anarchists. Moth
ing was said to him about the fact that
he was discovered and he was invited
TO attend a picnic of the anarchists on
Long Island. 1here a group of Reds
forced him into the woods, made bon
IRE ana with a White-hot iron branded
him on the back of the left hand with
the word IT" They then beat him
and threw him off the grounds.
Another spy captured by the anarch-
lists of Paterson was an Italian named
Gerarhdheili. He had been working
among them for nine months. Gerar-
deli was wei Educated and had the ap-
pearance of a deep student. He won
the confidence of the Reds" by his
brilliant speeches and clever articles
One day he inadvertently dropped a
letter in a saloon on Straight street,
and before he could pick it up some one
Wflllng
the italian consul lie was Immediately
marked as a suspect and a trap laid
to catch him. Soon after he was re-
qUested to attend a meeting at the
home of a comrade. There he was
seized and searched and numerous let
ters from the consul dhirecting him
what to do were found on him. While
the men were celebrating what to do
with him Gerardelli esca ped by Jump
ing from the second-story window,
which had been left open. Nothing has
been heard from him since.
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Of the men who are now in prison on
the other side the two most prominent
Quintaveli, wdife of one of the men,
Every Italian in Paterson, whether an
anarchist or not. knew them. Mrs.
anarchists are Quintaveli and Lana,
now lives at No. 72S Dumont street,
West HObOken. She told a World re
porter that her husband had written
her several letters from prison in Italy
saying that he never expected to reach
home again.
another man captured was AmieI
Gallatuni. He went over to Italy
about three months ago for the osten-
sible purpose of visiting his parents
he was supposed to have been back
here over month ago, but nothing has
been heard from him. His brother.
who lives in Newark said he had a
y
never saw their son, and that if he
reached Italy be must have been i'm
Prisoned before he could send word to
them.
Probably nowhere, not even in Russia,
is so complete a system of espionage
kept over the anarchists as is exercised
over the group in Paterson. Almost
every European government has one or
more secret agents among them. The
lists OF all the outgoing steamships are
rfraf-r 4 r,,TF H.
the names OF any of the anarchists who
may be going abroad. AS soon as they
land on the other side they are fol-
lowed from place to place, and if they
set within fifty miles of any city where
royalty happens to be they are imme-
requested 20 take the next ship to
America. That the anarchist of Pater-
son. however, is not the CutthrOat he is
pictured as being is evident from the
report of the chief of police of Pater-
son. he says that the anarchist colony
are a quiet, peaceable, hOme-loving lot
and seldom or never break the peace.
A study Of the men who compose this
colony is interesting All of them live
for an ideal. 1t is their mission in life.
they say, to educate the people of the
world up to their standard OF thinking
They recognize neither law nor religion.
There are about 1000 anarchists in the
city, most of whom are married. These
marriages are. however. entirely unions
of love and affection, for no civil or re-
ligiOus rites are ever performed. The
man and woman simply live together as
long as their affection for each other
lasts, and when il ceases to exist they
separate. In the eight years in which
the colony has been established it is
said that not more than half a dozen
separations have been recorded.
Despite the fact that no regular or
ganiZatiOn exists among these men, the
ties which bind them are stronger than
any fOrmalities through which they can
go. A mans word among them is more
than his bond Most of them would
gladly give their lives for the cause of
anarchy ImplSCable as is the pursuit
of the Italian government of these men,
they have so far succeeded in frighten-
ing the officials of the government more
than they have themselves been scared.
One consul of this city has precipi-
lately fled TO Europe, and another has
asked for a different post. The offices
of the consulate are watched by two
detectives, and the homes OF the Of
hcials are under guard day and night.
The anarchists are in constant COM
munication with the different groups
all over the world, and the news of the
arrest of one of their mum Der in any
part of the globe is instantly trans
mitted 10 all~the groups.