Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1901-09-05
BREScl NOT ASSASSIN.
Detective Says Granotti Fired
Shot That Killed Humbert.
SECRET REVEALED IN A LETTER.

Segura, the SIeuth. Declares Pater-
son Anarchists Are After Him For
Betraying Them, and He Must Flee
For His L~ife-Once Held by An
For Three Days.
For divulging what he says is the
most closely guarded Of all anarchistic
secrets-that Bresci was not the man
who slew King Humbert-and for re-
yeaIing the name of the man who, it is
alleged, really fired the fatal shot Al
exander r. Segura, a detective in the
employ OF the Italian government, is
forced, he declares, to flee the country,
with the fear of death upon him.
The man who killed Humbert is, &C
cording to Segura, one Luigi Granotti,
a former comrade Of Bresci in Pater-
son, who stood at Brescis side when
the latter fred on the king, says the
New York Journal. Granotti is said to
have fired the fatal shot after Bresci
had thrice discharged his revolver
without effect.
This discovery was made by Segura,
he maintains, while he was working in
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the anarchists of Paterson. Segura
first went to Paterson a year ago to
investigate the murder of Giuseppe
Pessina by Sparandi Caraboni, alias
Luigi Bianchi, a fellow anarchist. BIZ
anchi was the man who In May, 1900,
drew the fatal number out of 113 bal
lots, which called upon him to assas-
sinate King Humbert Bianchi refused
to undertake the desperate mission,
and Bresci Immediately volunteered in
his place.
Soon afterWard Bianchi, in response
to orders, it is alleged, issued by the
anarchist group Ell Maternel in Phila-
deIphia, murdered Pessina, who was
suspected Of being a spy. A day or two
later Bianchi himself was found dead
having apparently committed suicide.
In his pockets were found documents
which gave the Italian detectives the
first mi Of the intended murder of the
king.
Segura continued to work in the mill
without exciting the least suspicion as
to his real mission among the anarch-
lists, who freely initiated him into all
their secrets. Last October Segura says
he was shown a letter from Granotti
dated at Paris. in which he declared
that it was he and not Bresci who fired
the shot that killed King Humbert on
July %. Granotti declared that Bresci
missed three times, and that then he
(GranottD took careful aim Inc brought
down the King. escaping afterward in
the confusion. 1t was said at the time
of the assassination hat four shots
were heard, but that only three cham
bers in Bresci's revolver were found to
have been discharged.
Segura at once notified the Italian
consul, and efforts were made to cap
ture G%ranotti, but he had fed from
Paris. A week later Segura vas shown
another letter from Granotti dated at
Glasgow. A large reward is now stand
ing for Granotti's arrest
At a meeting held in Paterson on July
2 a plot was Matched, it Is declared, to
kill the czar of Russia and Emperor
William Of Germany. Fou anarchists
were chosen by lot to assassinate the
two monarchs. They were Victor Re
goli, Andrione Cannalucci, Cuvico Mo
relli and Tomaso Minelli, all of whom
sailed for Europe in May. Morelli was
recently arrested in Berlin.
Segura learned that mail for all four
men is still being received at the office
of the anarchist paper La Reveil in &C.
neva Switzerland. Learning that one
Giovanni Giudici, living in Barre, Vt,
was to join the four in Europe, Segura
went to Barre, talked with Giudici
and, after learning all the details of the
plot, accompanied Giudici to Montreal,
where the latter sailed on the Allan
liner Partisan, destined for Berlin. Ten
days ago Segura again paid a visit to
Barre, where he was recognized as a
detective.
One dark night, he says, be was en-,
ticed into a lonely street, knocked
down. gagged and blindfolded anc
thrown into a wagon, in WHICH he was
driven to an isolated but In the woods
where he was detained for three days
being constantly threatened with
death. On the third night, he narrates
he was driven in a closed carriage tt
Montpelier Junction and left there aft
er being warned not to return to Barre
on pain of death.
Luckily for Segura the Barre anarch
lists were ignorant of the fact that al
was the man who had denounced Ora
motif as h assassin Of Humbert Hat
they known this he would. he says
without doubt have instantly been pu
to death. On returning to, New Yorl
the other day Segura learned that h,
had been betrayed to the Paterson an
archists, who are bot on his trail Re
alizing his peril, he at once made ar
rangements to take the first steame
for his home in SmyrnaaAsia Minor.
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