| Show Monarchs And n Their Murderers THE TIE DEATH OF A BRAVE KING BY LADBROKE BLACK Before entered the cell which tha the cruel humanity of Swiss law condemned him to Inhabit for the re remaining remaining term of his natural life he ut uttered uttered uttered these sinister words I should have hav been better pleased to kill King Humbert but what I failed tailed to do will be done by another The human buman mind Is so constituted as asto asto asto to lose impressions quickly The terror aroused by the long series of ot atrocities perpetrated in the name of ot anarchy leaves loaves no lasting effect on the mind of ot the public A week elapses and the drama t 1 I forgotten But the little In inner iier ner world of continental officialdom dues does not forget so readily It remembers and fears oars It happens Invariably that after a afew tf few fow weeks public and press alike do scribe one of these tragedies as the v work ork of a lunatic suffering from a form of exaggerated ego which compels him to believe that he ire has a mission from on high nigh to avenge the In Injuries injuries juries of ot the tho individual against the rep representative representative of organized society It Is their vanity they say which impels these men to their abominable deeds In support of this theory they will fairly enough point out that the an anarchist Henry proud of ot his six victims posed as the destroying angel and that the last moments of nearly every an anarchist anarchist criminal havo have been spent in at In the limelight of ot public notoriety Realizing this characteristic tic tl the French government included in ht one of ot their laws for the suppression of or anarchists passed after the assassination assassination nation of President Carnot a clause making the trial of an anarchist private private private vate and forbidding him to address the public Their object of course was to prevent anarchy being apotheosized by bya a martyrdom But it is simply folly tony to judge a cause by the character of those men who are engaged to perform Its most brutal and degrading work I IThe The secret societies naturally employ the most debased type of man for their work of assassination He must be a fanatic a madman who vho can be absolutely absolutely relied upon He Jie Ie must be capable of ot any act however vile moreover he must be faithful to those who inspire and employ him He must go to his death without allowing the names of ot othis his accomplices to escape his lips Every Everyone one of ot the murderers I have re referred referred referred to in these articles was of this tIlls type But they did not act on their own initiative their th lr crimes were In Inspired Inspired inspired and directed by that secret com committee committee committee whose doings are the terror of oC Europe remark that th t what he had failed to do would be bo done by another I can show was no empty empt boast that thatis is to say these words were not the mere of a diseased mind but the actual statement of ot a fact King Humberts death though not n t com compassed compassed compassed passed until 1900 had been arranged arrange for in 1898 Just a year after futile attempt Bresci had lead been sent by the anarchists anarchIsts anarchists from America in 1898 to meet Luc cheni at there funds were secretly conveyed to both of ot them and they were ordered to assist one another in the tho particular work for which each had been beon engaged Bresci actually ac to Geneva and was in that town when the murder of ot the empress of or Austria took place Immediately after that crime and the arrest of oC Bresci probably acting on Instructions hurriedly disappeared disappeared The governments were once more active In their attack on anarchism anarchism ism It was therefore an unsuitable moment to attempt the as assassination of or King Humbert Bresci Bresel returned to America where hex hee he obtained work as asa asa asa a silk weaver at Hamil and Booths at Paterson N NJ J Here he be Remained until May 7 1900 leading a quiet and inoffensive life with his wife arid arld children until the fatal summons came to him again and he once more crossed the Atlantic At a secret meeting of anarchists which was held at Milan on Feb 2 1900 it was decided that during the year an another another another other effort should be made to spread the terror throughout the civilized world A list of ot the various monarchs doomed to assassination was made out and for the task of ot assassination as each of them then lots were drawn Those mem members members bers hers of ot the organization who were not present had their lots drawn for tor them by proxy It happened that in the draw for tor the murder of ot King Humbert of ot Italy the tho fatal number fell tell to an Italian anarchist of the name of Car Carbon Carboni Carboni boni bon though an Italian by birth was an American cit citizen citizen izen and in consequence of pf this fact the society gave him the right to choose a substitute for the perpetration perpetration tion of a crime which had of necessity to place in Italy His choice fell Cell upon Bresci and instructions Were at once sent to the latter to hold himself in readiness to cross the Atlantic as soon as he should receive the formal summons Early in May that summons ar rived I and on May 7 Bresci loft Ion his wife and family at Paterson and aid took ship to Europe knowing as he must have known knowl that he lie would paver never lever re return return return turn to America alive Everything in n Italy favored the at attempt attempt tempt Considerable trouble had arisen between King Humbert and his par parliament parliament parliament in which the Socialists had lately greatly increased their forces forcest t All AH over the country disorders were I prevalent on various occasions the thc j i king was openly Insulted in the street i But King Humbert was a man of su preme tact and supreme unselfishness He did his utmost to allay the unrest and In spite of ot the various Incidents which occurred when he h appeared In public he went about his duties calmly and unflinchingly refusing to resort to unconstitutional methods as as was the case with Dom Carlos under similar cir clr circumstances circumstances and confident that time and the good sense of ot the people would settle all an difficulties j He knew that his life Ufe was threatened i but the thought left him unperturbed After attempt he had calmly remarked These are arc the little perquisites of our trade but why should I concern myself What hat must happen must happen It was In the same spirit that he lie received warnings of a plot against his life from two dif different different different ferent quarters of the civilized world worldOn worldOn worldOn On July 20 O the Austrian government communicated to him the full details of an anarchistic plot against his life lICe Next day his police tn in n common with the police of the rest of Europe re received received received a notification from the United States that notorious an anarchists anarchists anarchists trained in the most violent tenets of their faith had left New York I for Europe the avowed Intention of carrying out some wholesale conspiracy con cop conspiracy the exact nature of which the I American authorities had been unable to discover Meanwhile Bresci had arrived arrival in Eu Europe Europe rope ropo and had taken up his quarters at Prato Here he was vas as supplied with funds and so I have havo been told with the weapon with which he ultimately committed the deed It was a revolver of the same pattern as that used by byan byan byan an in the commission of sim similar similar ilar deeds and this coincidence would seem to point to the fact which has been narrated to me the on more than one occasion but n I J have never ver been able to corroborate that the central committee of combat has a secret sup supply supply supply ply of arms all vf pf If the same patterns pattern purchased by them thorn In America Bread Bresci spent his days In practicing revolver shooting and some of the targets an arc anin 1 tov in 10 v in till the possession of If the police It r is curious td think of him there in Prato training as a man trains for forborne borne pome harmless sport for the assassination assassination assassination nation of King Humbert From all over Italy communications were sent to him by various anarchists who were in the secret of the plot He was kept fully Informed of the move movements move movements movements ments of or the king and of the political situation Both these details were to him of the greatest importance for tor it was waa essential that he should know where and when It would best serve his purpose to strike At last towards the end of July he learned that the king was to pass through Milan on his way to attend a local fete tete at and he be at once decided that this was the time to commit the deed The municipal council of Milan at the time was composed almost wholly of ot Socialists with whom his majesty was peculiarly unpopular Bresci Bresel knew or orif orIf orif if he did not know himself the information Information information tion was given him by his friends that the council was not likely to concern Itself greatly about a royal visit It was conceivable that they might not note e yen even make any preparations at all to tor toI receive r his majesty Probably the proper number of police pollee would not be supplied and probably also In such a hotbed of socialism none of the ordina ordinary ordinary ordinary ry ry precautions that attend the wander wanderings wanderIngs wanderings ings of royalty would be taken Under such Sueh circumstances Milan or Its Us neigh neighborhood neighborhood I was just the place for such a fanatical and daring desperado as Bresci The event proved that Brad Bresci I had been rightly informed When the king arrived at Milan railway station on July 29 l on his way to not one member of the municipal council was present to receive him At the tine time little littlee notice was taken of this incident which was regarded as only a proof of bad taste or bad manners The Tho king passed on lilt hit way to where the fete feto was wag to take place and though imitated the thc prevailing pre pr ailing politics of Milan neither the th police nor the government officials imagined that the attitude of the HIP local 10 11 authorities Justi t fled fied them in ir r taking extraordinary extraordinary precautions pre precautions precautions cautions v The ling king Ing attended the fete and the apparent enthusiasm with which he was received did not seem to warrant any serious alarm for his safety But Bresci Bresel who was waiting wafting among the crowd for His return must have real realized realIzed realized that all the usual precautions had been relaxed The very method which he had chosen for tor the crime proved that he understood the th local situation As the king drove back to his palace at Bread Bresci standing among a group of people raised his revolver and fired I He had bad grooved the noses if his bullets so that they would expand and make amore a amore amore more fatal f tal wound It seems Inconceivable Inconceivable inconceivable able but it is none the less Jess a fact that he was allowed to fire three times each time taking deliberate and careful aim before h he was arrested and the weapon wrenched from his hand Each bullet hit the king but it was the first that proved fatal The unfortunate unfortunate unfortunate monarch was driven rapidly to his palace and there shortly after afterwards afterwards afterwards wards expired Throughout the kingdom the news of or orthis this atrocity aroused the most furious I Indignation It was believed that certain certain tain officials must have been in league I with the anarchists to enable the crime to be committed under such suh circum stances It is certain at any rate that the local authorities of qt if It not nt actually In league Breads conred confederates confederates were at any rate almost crim criminally crimInally responsible by their absolute neglect of ot duty In providing adequate means moans for the kings protection for the tragedy trial was like Uke the trial of all other anarchists He refused to in incriminate incriminate incriminate criminate his confederates s he attempt attempted ed to Justify his conduct by declaim declaiming declaIming declaiming ing the principles of at anarchism and h went to the prison which was for him hill hima a living tomb with that curious coui cour courage age which In spite of ot all wins our rt re J reluctant admiration Europe was once more In arms and of ot the extensive campaign planned by bythe bythe bythe the secret societies only one other step was waa found possible pos the attempt by Salson on the shah of ot life That failed and the elaborate and ex expensive expensive expensive pensive precautions taken by hy all aU th the continental powers to preserve the Uie lives of their rulers prevented the remain remainder remainder der of the elaborate plot being put into execution r J |
