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2 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 SCURF CAME ON HEAD Broke Out in Pimples. Scratching Caused Sores to Form. Hair Fell Out in Bunches. Could Not Sleep. Used Cuticura Soap and Ointment a Month, Cured Entirely. Campbell. Va. "I used Cuticura Soap and Ointment for scurf on my baby’s head and they made a complete cure. It came on her head soon after birth. It broke out in pimples and itched and she would scratch it and cause sores to form. Her head was very sore and her hair fell out in bunches. She was very cross and fretful and could not sleep at night. 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'loston " *»r Tender-faced men should use Cuticura . koap Shaving Stick, 25c. Sample free. HOW COLONEL ROOSEVELT WAS SHOT SQF I * RHE RWWweWmiw aLSjri SKeLIKr 3* ** jpg* * •»,. dSKLIBP k igyU WOP |KL AM -/ w, —■ ... ~-a 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 IHE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. WHERE THE BULLET LODGED W 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. • •••••••••••••••••••••••••a 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 MI-O-NA ENDS INDIGESTION A Physician's Prescription for All Stomach Distress Pharma cists Praise It—Hundreds of Business and Professional Men Recommend It. Stops All Gas, Sourness, Heaviness and Fermenta tion in Five Minutes— Only 50 Cents. An unclean stomach causes many ail ments. At the first sign of distress MI- O-NA STOMACH TABLETS are the best friend you can find on earth. 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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. 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