The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-04-17
STORM IN ROME
HAS GAINED DOWN
No Casualties as Result of For
mer President ROOseyelt'S
Visit to Italy.
BY CLEMENT J. BARRETT.

Special Cable TO The Tribune,
ROME. April 16.-The storm raised by
tho visit of former President Roosevelt :
visit is quioting down and so far as can
be found there have been no casualties
The relations between the vatican and
the Methodist missionaries could not ne
more strained than they had been. so
no great harm Was done there. Mr..
Roosevelt made q great impression on
King Victor and Queen Elena. who en-
joycd his visit greatly, and the Italian
people generally were pleased with the
famous American. One of The pleasant
was the presentation To him of a bust
OF the late Il. Marion Crawford. Mr..
Roosevelt was great friend and ad-
mlrer of Crawford. who lived the last
pressed himself as greatly sratIhed To
have this memento of the man who had
shed much mstcr on American letters.
All Rome Is Laughing.
Rome is laughing at II hugh practical
joke played on Il number OF well known
society, men who were gambling in one
OF the leading hotels. a party headed by
Signor Antolini. well known chemist
disguised as police commissioner and
his assistants descended on The gamblers.
and In husinesslikc fashion seized the
stakes and gambling implements. He
took the names and addresses OF the
players, and telling them they would hear
more OF the matter al later date, de-
ing their quiet game fell into the trap
II is said that some OF the younger mem
bcrs of the party dissolved into tears
at the thought of what papa would
say" Some lricd TO bolt and We're rather
roughly turned back by the police
men guarding Tie doors. While the
laughter aroused by this Joke is stil GO
Ing round. well known private gambling
club in which roulette has been played
nightly for years. raided by the
police-this time genuinely: Two deputies
and several scions of princcly families
aro involved in the atair
Russian Trunk Mystery.
A sinister lisht has boen thrown ON the
mysterious Russian trunk murder pcrpc-
tratcd at a lodging house i'm Rome last
March. The first clues tended TO show
that the victim was either rcvotution-
list or a police SPY. Cavalierc GasN then
assistant TO the CHIEF of police at Rome,
was sent 10 Warsaw 10 prosecute iuuuir-
les. Before setting out he resolved 10
experiment with the finger print system,
To that end he had the body of the vic
Tim "Nhum"d and the impriutS photo
eraphed. Tho result was that on his ar
rival in Russia the lmprintS were found
10 correspond exactly with those of "A
vanished youth named Tarantovsky. The
son Of a manufactures OF false keys res
ident at HahudeVlSa. He belonged To an
anarchist club at Warsaw, and subse-
Gucully offered his services AS informer
To- the local secret police but WAS soon
after thrown into prison on the discovery
being made that he had been playing
into tho hands of revolutionary colnra,ics
Tarantovsky thcrcurpn avowcd his de
termination to create u colossal scandal
III brought To trial hy Il fun exposure OF
the methpds of the Russian secret dctec-
tive system. Hence II was decided to
release him and To put spies on his track
instead with instructions 10 kill him as u
dangerous enemy, The assasslns whom
Cavallcre Gasti, unearthcd. We're ldeu-
tiiicd us belonging TO the Warsaw dis
trict- They dogged Tarantoyskys stpps
To Rome. and there. in the suisc OF
friendly follow countrymcu wishing 10
cure him Of mnlady from Which, hC
was suffering. they administered jnier-
tions OF cyanide OF potassium. When up-
consciousness supcrVcned they deposited
their victim in n trunk. locked il and
took thclr departure.