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Show CONSPIRATORS ARE SAFE. Treaties Protect the Plotters In America. New York, Aug. 1. There is little that the United States can do in the way of aiding the Italian jrovernment in prosecuting those engaged in the conspiracy which resulted in the assassination assas-sination of King Humbert if it should be proven that the conspiracy was entered en-tered into in America, says the Washington Wash-ington correspondent of the World. Officials of the state department and the department of justice say all the extradition treaties between the United States and other countrias provide that persons charged with political crimes shall not be surrendered for trial. As a general rule of international law the killing of a ruler or an attempt against the life of a ruler Is a political crime. There is no such provision in the treaty between the United States and Italy. ' It would, therefore, be impossible to grant a demand from the government of Italy for the extradition of any person per-son in the United States who may have conspired with the murderer of King Humbert. It would also be impossible im-possible for such persons to be tsun-ished tsun-ished either under federal or state laws for conspiring to commit a political crime In a foreign country. It would be practically impossible for the United States to surrender to the Italian government as a matter of cour- , tesy any of the alleged conspirators, as, if the attempt should be made they would doubtless apply to the courts for writs of habeas corpus. While persons engaged in this country coun-try in a conspiracy against the head of a foreign government could not be punished, a conspiracy to kill the pres- ident of the United States or even a threat to kill him could be punished just the same as a conspiracy or threat to kill any private person. The possible connection between Bresci and the New Jersey group of anarchists has moved this government to takjs measures to investigate the anarchist an-archist situation in and around New-York. New-York. Just what steps have been taken is not made public. |