Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 September 1900 — BRESCI SENTENCED. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

BRESCI SENTENCED.

Slayer of King Humbert Given a Life Term in Prison. Gaetano Bresci, the assassin of Klag Humbert, was found guilty of murder at his trial in Milan, and was condemned

to imprisonment for life. Bresci escaped with life imprisonment, as that penalty is the most severe which can be imposed under the laws of Italy for murder, on which charge the anarchist was tried. It was at first believed he would be tried on the charge of treason, in which

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case the penalty would have been death. Bresei shot and killed King Humbert on July 29, nt Monza, Italy, where the king was spending the season at his summer palace. Humbert hnd just finished awarding prizes to the competitors in an athletic contest and was leaving th.i grounds in a carriage. Bresci approached and fired three shots at the king, wffs was killed instantly. The murderer was surrounded by the police and saved from immediate death nt the hands of the crowd. He had been a workman in a silk factory at Paterson, N. J.,'nnd sailed for Italy in May, leaving his wife and child In destitute circumstances in his home at Paterson.