The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-09-01

~ me dssas slnauon of King Humbert
over year ago back 20 Italy and there
70 punish them was discovered IssT
week Dy members OF the Society of the
Right OF Existence. They not only cap
tured the man who was sent by the It'll
loL coIisu1 10 carry out the scheme and
secured a confession from him, but they
OBTAINED documentary evidence of the
most elaborate and extensive plans for
the avenging OF the death of a ruler
S.St conceived By government.
rms man whose name is Rafaele
OegF Innocente. is the fifth spy the
anarchists have discovered and ex-
posed They say that they know OF
seEeraI others, but have not yet OBJ
tanned SUFFICIENT evidence against them
4nnocente. they claim, was the clever
est and most dangerous one they have
yet captured.
Innocente's scheme, carefully planned,
was foiied when 1t seemed that its exc
cuJlOn was assured. II was nothing
less than the sending of a number of
anarchists over to Italy, pIentifuIIy sun
pled with money, to assassinate the
~ ISsShe KING AS soon as they arrived
on the other side they would have been
arrested by the authorities. and the
papers found upon them would have
convicted them and sent them up FOR
That Innocente's plans were either
conceived by the Italian government at
nome or by the consul in this city was
Tully proved by the documents found
upon thehL The story of his capture
and confession reads more like the tale
or band of Russian nihilists than an
actual happening in the heart of New
york The account Of how Innocente
was discovered and trapped was told in
La QUESTION: Sociale the official organ
of the Paterson anarchists. Ii was also
told 10 a World reporter by Peter Es-
LeVe, the editor Of the paper and the
man who first suspected the spy.
in1ocente had been hanging around
Cne offices of Ia Drraeffer,e
number Of months. He pretended to be
In ruiz sympathy with their work, and
proved himself a valuable comrade. He
helped to get out their paper, writing
sh9r- articles and aiding in the distri-
button. He was trusted implicitly and
suspicion was first aroused against him
week before he was finally trapped.
- - G,
one OF Innocente's favorite themes of
conversation was the assassination of
King Hu.nDert. He often said that as
one king had been done away with il
should be an easy matter to do away
with he present ruler. His words left
3 deep impression on the more not
headed Paterson reds" He seemed to
be particularly soHcitous of finding
some Of the men who had a hand in
the FORMER assassination TO help carry
out the present one. Little by little, as
he became more and more acquainted,
he began bringing his plans to final
point. one day he said that he had been
LETT a lot of money, and was DESTROYS
Of spending &c on the cause of anarchy.
Every body admired his generous disin-
tedneSs. and ne was beginning to
be locked upon as a leader.
Finally, about month ago, he de-
cided that he had secured the conf
dence Of the anarchists to such an ex-
tent that re could make direct prop
osition. He got number of the men
and held a private conference There
expenses of three of the comrades if
they would undertake to go to Italy
and agree to kill the present king. 1t
was also stipulated that in case one
should fail in the attempt, the others
would try. each in turn.
Another thing to which Innocer g
agreed was that he would supply the
families of the men who were to go to
the other side with enough money to
get along with. Under these c~ndi-
tons three of the men decided to un-
dertake the work. Word OK the
scheme. however. came to the ears of
Peter Esteve. He Is the acknowledged
leader of the men an6 one of the most
conservative among them. Esteve be-
heves that murder does the Cause no
good, bat that, on the contrary. it does
great deal of harm. When he heard
that Innocente was to furnish the
l. aroused.
It had been agreed that the final ar
engagements and the handing over of
the money were to be made at the
house of one of the men in AIacdougal
street this city. On the night in cues
ton Esteve and half dozen other ar
archis-5 concealed themselves IN a
back room, while InnOCente and the
men who were TO do the work con-
ferred in a front room. All the ar
TgnUerr1nnfE bad tee
made. agreements signed and limo
cente handed over 81. 900 to defray the
c.penses of the trio. when the other
men. led by Esteve, rushed into the
room.
Pistols were pointed at Innocente's
head and he was told that if he made
an cutlery he would be killed Three
OF the men got hold of him ana
searched him. They found on him let
ters and documents from the Italian
consul that proved conclusively that
he was spy in the employment Of
thu government. They also found sew
eral letters in which Innocente w1s
warned BY the officials to go slow with
his plans. as undue haste would be
likely TO spoil them.
When the man saw that he was dis
covered he fell on his knees and
begged the anarchists to spare him.
lie said that he was an anarchist at
heart. but was compelled to become Z.
cEg AtAA Jus II AelCk OA AAOueN- re plead
ed that his life be spared and volun-
teered to make &. fun confession of his
part IN the plot. This confession is
printed in the anarchist paper. He
gays that he was hired by the italian
consul with the direct purpose of aid
Ing in a plan 70 get some Of the men
who plotted the death of the former
king Of Italy back to the other side
All the men who had hand
in r. are known to the consul and a
list OF them was published in the World
several weeks ago in connection with
the report Of Segura, the Italian de-
tective. W no also worked among the
anarchists.
After Innocente signed the confess
sion his photograph was taken by
fiashlght, the apparatus having been
specially brought there for the pun
pose The pi@turc taken by the anar-
chists is the one published on shis page
today. After the anarchists had looked
through all the documents found upon
him they returned them and told him
to report back TO the italian consul
with the compliments - the Paterson
f5Uyryty of the Right of Existence.
q g .
Peter E;steVe, the editor Of La Cues
ticne Sociale, in speaking of the Incl
dent. saiG:
You can see how dangerous we are,