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Maniac Fires Bullet Into Third Party Leader’s Breast While He Waves to Crowd of Milwaukee Admirers
I DON’T CARE A RAP ABOUT BEING SHOT, SAYS T, R, IN SPEECH
Colonel Prevents I synch
ing as Crowd, Real
izing Attempted As
sassination, Goes Into
a Frenzv—“l’m Not
Hurt,” He Insists Till
the Crowd Is Quieted
MILWAUKEE. WIS.. Oct. 15.
Colonel Theodore Roosevelt was
shot in the breast by John
Schrank, of 370 East Tenth street,
New York, as he entered the au
tomobile in front of the Hotel
Gilpatrick to start for the au
ditorium where he was to speak
last night. Colonel Roosevelt in
sisted op going to the hall, there
quieted the crowd that heard he
had been shot, spoke from 8:20
until 9:45 o'clock, though appa
rently weak, and then was taken
to the emergency hospital.
The physicians had an X-ray
taken of the wound and declared
it was superficial and that Colo
nel Roosevelt was not seriously
injured. The bullet was not re
moved.
At 12:50 Colonel Roosevelt, declaring
that he was feeling fine, left for Chi
cago in his private car. The colonel
said he will remain in Chicago long
enough to allow surgeons to remove the
bullet, and then leave to fill his cam
paign engagements
Here la the Hole
The Bullet Made.
"I do not care a rap about being shot,
not a rap,” said Colonel Roosevelt in
his speech upon arriving at the Audi
torium to make his speech.
"Friends," he began. "1 shall have to
ask you to be as quiet as possible. I
don't know whether you fully under
stand that I have just been shot, but it
takes more than that to kill a Bull
Moose
"But fortunately 1 had my manuscript
(holding up manuscript showing where
the bullet had gone through), so you
«ee I Was going to make a long speech
friends, the hole in it Is where the
bullet went through, and It probably
saved the bullet from going Into my
heart. The bullet Is In me now, so that
I can not make a very long speech. But
I will try my best.
"And now, friends. I want to take
advantage of this incident to say as
solemn a word of warning as I know
how to my fellow Americans. First of
all, I want to say this about myself:
I have altogether too many important
things to think of to pay any heed or
feel any concern over my own death.
Nou, 1 would not speak to you insin
cerely w ithin five minutes of being shot.
I am telling you the literal tiuth when
I say my concern is for many other
things It is not in the least for my
own life.
"I want you to understand that I am
ahead of the game, anyway. No man
has had a happier life than I have had
—a happy life in every way. 1 have
been able to do certain things that I
greatly wished to do and I am interest
ed in doing other things. I can tell you
■with absolute truthfulness that I am
very much uninterested In whether I
am shot or not. It was just as when 1
was colonel of my regiment. I always
felt that a private was to be excused
for feeling at times some pangs of
anxiety owing to his personal safety,
but I can not understand a man fit to
be colonel who can pay any heed to his
personal safety when he is occupied, as
he ought to be occupied, with the ab
sorbing desire to do his duty.
“I am saying this byway of Intro
duction, because I want to say some
thing very serious to our people, and
especially to the newspapers. 1 don't
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Photo-diagram, showing Colonel Roosevelt standing in an auto waving to a crowd, just as he appeared in Milwaukee last night, with
a drawing of the assassin in the position in which he stood when he fired, as described by the dispatches. The cross indicates Colonel
Roosevelt, and the arrow points to the drawing of the assassin.
know who the man was who shot me
tonight. Me was seized by one of my
stenographers, Mr. Martin, and I sup
nose is In the hands of the police now.
He shot to kill me. 1 am just going to
show you. (Colonel Roo-eyelt then un
buttoned his coat and vest ami showed
his white shirt badly stained witli
blood ) Now. friends. I am going to
be as quiet as possible, even if 1 am not
able to give the challenge of the bull
moose quite as loudly. Now, I don’t
know who he was or what party he
represented. He was a coward. He
stood in the darkness in the crowd
around the automobile and when they
cheered and when I got up to bow. he
stepped forward and shot me in the
breast
Shot While Waving
Hat to Crowd.
As Colonel Roosevelt was leaving the
Hotel Gilpatriek shortly after 8 o'clock
last night to > start for the auditorium,
where he was to make a speech, a
crowd pressed around him, cheering
and attempting to shake his hand. The
colonel stepped into the car, stood up
and waved his hat. As he did so,
Schrank raised his pistol and fired,
point blank.
Albert Martin, one of Roosevelt's
secretaries, who was standing beside
him, jumped over the side of the auto
mobile. hurled himself on the would-be
assassin, pinned him to the ground and
twisted the pistol out of his hand.
By this time the crowd realized what
had happened, and the swift-moving
succession of Incidents seemed to rouse
their anger to white heat. "Lynch
him!" was the cry one raised, and In a
moment the shout was taken up by a
hundred men.
Martin bodily lifted Schrank up and
set him on his feet before Roosevelt,
who was still standing, silent and mo
tionless.
"Here he is, colonel; take a look at
him,” Martin said.
Roosevelt looked curiously at the
shivering little maniac, and, as the
crowd's anger grew, raised his hand
and shouted:
"Stop! Stand back! Don't hurt him."
The crowd moved back with military
discipline, and Martin and Captain
Girard, of Milwaukee, who was with the
party, carried Schrank into the hotel
and called for the police.
Colonel Roosevelt was then besieged
with questions of whether or not he
was hurt.
' No." he responded; "missed me that
time. I'm not hurt n bit."
No one in the party seemed to real
ize that Roosevelt had been shot, and
when the colonel learned that the police
had taken charge of the man who had
shot, he ordered the motor car to pro
ceed <o the auditorium. As the car
got under way, one of Roosevelt’s sec
retaries uttered a cry and pointed to
the colonel's breast.
"Look," he said. "There is a bullet
hole in your overcoat."
Colonel Roosevelt looked down, saw
the hole, then unbuttoned the big.
brown army coat which he was wear
ing and thrust his hand beneath it.
When he withdrew it his fingers were
stained with blood.
Colonel Roosevelt was not dtsmaved
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WHERE THE BULLET LODGED
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Photo-diagrain nuule from an X-ray plate furnished by Dr. John S. Derr, surgeon in the famous Grace case.
An X-ray photograph ot the human thorax, showing the position of the bullet in Roose
velt s chest as revealed by the X-ray photographs taken at the hospital in Chicago today. The X-ray
located the bullet in the right breast between the eighth and ninth ribs. The X-ray photograph here
shown is not of Colonel Roosevelt.
by bis discovery.
"It looks as though I had been hit,"
he said, "but I don't think it is any
thing serious."
Insisted on Going
To Hall for Speech.
Dr. Scurry Terrell, of Dallas. Texas,
Colonel Roosevelt's physician, who had
entered the automobile just before it
started off, insisted that the colonel re
turn to the hotel. He paid no attention
to the suggestion, however, and the ear
was driven on to the auditorium.
As soon as they reached the building
Colonel Roosevelt was taken into a
dressing room and his outer garments
removed. Dr. Terrell, with the help of
other doctors who were in the audito
rium, came to the dressing room on a
call from the platform and made a su
perficial examination. They agre-u
that it was Impossible to hazard .
guess as to the extent of the colonel':
injuries, and that he should by all
means go at once to a hospital.
"I will deliver this speech or die, one
or the other,” was Colonel Roosevelt’s
reply.
Despite the protests of his physi
cians. the colonel strode out of the
dressing room and onto the stand. A
large crowd packed into the big build
ing cheered loudly as he entered and
wjthout a word to indicate whaj had
happened went to his seat. Eor several
minutes the crowd, no man of whom
• •
• Socialist Shoots •
: L Enthusiast •
• •
» CLEVELAND, OHIO, Oct. 15. •
• Charles Brown, an enthusiastic •
• Roosevelt follower, was shot and •
• severely wounded by a political •
• enthusiast here today. •
• Brown was standing on the •
• street reading a newspaper telling •
• of the attempted assassination. A •
• man standing nearby, hearing a •
• newsboy calling the extra, became •
• excited. •
• "1-ong live Debs'." he shouted. •
• and. drawing a revolver, fired •
• twice at Brown. One bullet struck •
• Brown In the hip. •
: Beveridge May
Finish Campaign •
—•
INDIANAPOLIS, IND., Oct. 15. •
• Albert J. Beveridge, gubernatorial •
• candidate on the Progressive tick- •
• et. has been summoned to Chica- •
• go by wire for consultation. It I-- »
® expected he will be asked to carry •
« out Roosevelt’s campaign itiner- •
• a ry. •
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suspected that the colonel bore a bullet
in his body, kept up its cheering.
Then Mr. Cochems stepped to the
front of the platform and held up his
hand. There was something in his
manner which had its effect upon the
crowd, and the cheering died suddenly
away.
"I have something to tell you," said
Mr. Cochems, “and I hope you will re
ceive the news with calmness."
His voice shook as he spoke and a
deathlike stillness settled over the
throng.
"Colonel Roosevelt has been shot.
He is wounded.” He spoke in a low
tone, but such was the stillness that
every one heard him. A cry of aston
ishment and horror went up from the
crowd, which was throw-n into confu
sion in an instant. Mr. Cochems turned
and looked inquiringly at Colonel
Roosevelt.
“Tell us. are you hurt?”
Men and women shouted wildly.
Some of them rose, from their seats
and rushed forward to look more close,
ly at the colonel.
Colonel Roosevelt rose and walked to
the edge of the platform to quiet the
crowd. He raised his hand and in
stantly there was silence,
"It's true." he said.
Then slowly he unbuttoned his coat
and placed his hand on his breast.
Those in the front of the crowd could
catch sight of the blood-stained gar
ment.
"I'm going to ask you to be very
quiet,” said Colonel Roosevelt, "and
please excuse me from making you a
very long speech. I’ll do thp best I can.
but you see there is a bullet in my
body. But it's nothing. I’m not hurt
badly."
I FAILED IN MY LIFE’S
WORK, SA YS ASSASSIN
MILWAUKEE, WIS., Oct. 15—John
Schrank, who tried to kill Colonel
Roosevelt, today’ pleaded guilty to a
charge of assault with intent to kill.
"I am guilty as charged. That is all I
have to sav,” was his answer when
Judge N. B. Neleen, In police court,
asked him to plead.
The plea in police court amounted to
a plea on arraignment. The court is
without power to sentence to the peni
tentiary. Accordingly plans were made
to transfer Schrank hastily to a guard
ed chamber in the municipal court,
where he will be asked to enter his ple.i
again. If he does so, he will be given
the maximum sentence of fifteen years'
Imprisonment. It is expected that he
will begin serving his term In the state
prison at Waupun before nightfall.
Crowd Orderly,
Attempts No Violence.
Schrank walked into the court under
heavy guard. His passage from the cell
to the court through the crowded
streets was accomplished without in
cident. Although throngs of curious
people watched, there was no attempt
at violence.
The would-be assassin took his stand
before the police court bench with un
ruffled demeanor.
As the charge against him was read.
Schrank listened gravely. He displayed
no sign of emotion, even when the
clerk emphasized the words "with in
tent to murder.”
Waupun is GO miles from Milwaukee.
The sheriff is said to have picked his
men to accompany Schrank. He wll’
probably make the trip in an automo
bile. The state prison officials have
been notified to be prepared to receive
Schrank.
Schrank stared at a group of news
paper men who stood outside the door
of his cell at the police station here this
morning and asserted that his life had
been wasted because Roosevelt will
live.
“Suicide?” he said, with a note of
wonder In his voice; "I never thought
of It. I did not expect to survive Theo
dore Roosevelt more than ten minutes.
I thought the mob would lynch me.
That, of course, was of no consequence
to me. The work of my life would
have been finished if I had put a bullet
In the heart of the man who is seeking
a third term as president.
“They tell me I have failed. Well, I
suppose my life is wasted. I shall
never have another opportunity. I have
-one my best. More than that no man
can do. Some men must be failures. If
I am chosen to be one of them, what
can I do about it?”
This morning Schrank spoke more
coherently than he did last night just
after the shooting. He slept during
part of the night, though his guards
awakened him frequently to ask ques
tions. His answers were at times in
coherent.
Long Ago Planned
To Slay Roosevelt.
Today he reiterated his statement
that he had long ago determined to kill
Roosevelt.
"From the time of the Republican
convention in Chicago," he said, "I
knew that I must kill Roosevelt. This
is not a personal affair with me. I
have acted for America."
Then Schrank repeated his assertions
of the night before, that he was led to
conclude that the death of Roosevelt
was necessary to avoid civil war.
John Schrank made a new confes
sion to the police today. He declared
that it had been his intention to keep
shooting at the ex-president until ab
solutely certain that he was dead, but
that the crowd frustrated him.
The police are convinced that
Schrank is a maniac. They are mak
ing a rigid investigation of his past
life, to see if he had any accomplices,
but are convinced that he acted alone
In his attempt to kill the former pres
ident. after following him about the
country.
In appearance Schrank is short, stout
and shabbily dressed. The most re
markable part of his features is his
eyes. They are red-rimmed, blue and
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watery. At times they have a wild, in
coherent look, and at others he gives a
meaningless stare, as though their own
er is unconscious of what Is going on
around him.
Didn’t Think of
Escape After Shooting.
In his confession Schrank said that
he expected to be torn limb from limb
after killing Roosevelt.
“I did not think of escape after
ward,” he said. "I did not think there
was a chance in the world. I expected
that I would be torn to pieces before 1
would have time to fire at myself, even
if I had planned suicide.
"My intention was to shoot repeatedly
at Roosevjjt until I knew he was dead,
and by that time it would have been
too late for me to do anything to my
self or for myself.
“Suicide —that is a coward’s death.
Now I am ready to die.”
Schrank said he fired the shot be
cause he was convinced that Roose
velt was trying to be the first American
king.
"The trouble with this country is," he
said, “that too few people are on the
square. There are probably 100,000
people who know it is their duty to
keep this blatherskite from becoming
king. The third term Is the first step
in this ambition.
“I Wish I Had
Been Successful.”
"All good Americans know that we
must have no kings here. There are
thousands who would have been glad
If I had succeeded. They would have
rejoiced In secret.
“I wish I had been successful. If J
were given another chance this after
noon I would take better aim and kill
this man. He is the most dangerous
man in the world today.”
Schrank was asked if he felt no re
gret.
"I regret that I did not kill him," he
replied. “That Is what I feel. It was
the greatest failure of many failures of
my life.”
Schrank made incoherent remarks
about another completing his task.
He was asked if he meant that there
was an accomplice who W’ould try to
shoot the colonel.
"I did not say there was an accom
plice, except that all men who know
what this country wants and what
Roosevelt wants are my accomplices. I
mean there are many men who know
what this one man's ambitions are,
They will see to It that he never real
izes them.”
Schrank protested that he had not
been actuated by personal motives tn
his attack upon Colonel Roosevelt. He
said that his hatred of the ex-president
dated back to the time when he was
police commissioner of New York city,
and compelled millions to obey the
Sunday closing law.
The proclamations addressed to the
people of the United States were found
in Schrank’s pockets. In them he
claimed to have been inspired to kill
Colonel Roosevelt by visions. Once he
wrote he saw in a dream President Mc-
Kinley pointing to a figure as his mur
derer, and the figure was Colonel
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