The sun., 1901-09-14

midway oetweon prtvato Obrfen ana the
point wbsrs the President stood. Whsn
tho sho,s were fred Private 0Brisn Wa
the nrvt man on the assassin, With Private
Ned the mart Corporal Bertschsy and
Private Brooks reached him at about the
same tims. Private Brooks oollidinS with
Mr.. Milburn In his Efforts TO get at the
assassin.
Private o'Brien got the assassin down.
Private Nen jumped on him before the
Assassin was down and held his arm while
Private O'Brien wrenched away tho re-
volv-r as IN was falling Corporal
Bert-chey then Jumped on the assassin.
kneeling on his chest and neck, and ssid.
j claim this man az my prisoIsr Private
Hetser followed Corporal Bertschey In fall
ing on the prisoner and while he was down
on his right kne. a, the right aide of the
prisoners head hc saw that the President
was still standing up looking down on tbs
group OF men on the prisoner. Tbs Pred
dent then walked with the hslp OF two
gentlemen 10 a chair and eat down.
Then the Secret Scrvtcs men arrived
and one of them grabbed Corporal BertSchey
around IN. body and dragged him back
on the srsassin and then swept away the
rest of my men, two Of them trying to get
tho revolver from Private O'Bren who
backed "A but retained po-~-~ion OF The
Secret Sery'icc men then took the prisoner
away and walked him to the oentre Of the
Music Temple. where one Of them rai-rd the
helpless prisoners chin with hi- eft hand
and struck him blow in the face with his
right. They then removed him 10 a room
In the building 10 the left of the stag.
N.... - h.. A...sF-
Service men were about Private o'Bncn
trying 20 gst the revolver away from him.
Corporal BertHchey directing him not To
give It up. Private Brooks went 20 their
assistance and Private OBrtsn handed tho
revolver to Corporal Bertschey who put
Il in his pocket The Secret Service men
still demanded the revolver of Corporal
BertSchey, showing their badges. but tho
corporal replied. III give It to nobody
but my commanding officer
Then q man came up who claimed To
lie q surgeon and asked 20 see the revolver
In order a. a-,~rtain the caliber. The or
poral took him aside and offered II TO him
but he refused 90 take Il. simply asking
tho corporal 10 open II 50 that he might
sce the caliher Then arrived and the
corporal TUNED the revolver over 70 me
Private Hei-er of the detail had como
over To the camp a. double time 10 report
TO m. the attempted assassination and |
ran over 60 tho sccue at double time. di-
r-cting the first sergeant O. send detail
OF a sergeant and sii armed msn IN follow
me
'On arriving a. the Temple ~ Music
a. about $50 7. NJ. Sept. a. learned that
the prisoner was still IN the building and
the Secret Service men asked that l hold
hack the crowd outside while they got the
prisoner into carriage and took him on
! took my men outside at once and posted
them along the hne held by the Pan Amer
ican police and out 20 the east on the Es-
planade.
Tho crowd started 20 lump over the
lines when tho prisoner Appeared hut
my men IN that vicinity drew their hay-
onets IA, this point they had only their
side arms and held 'he crowd back The
armed detail had sent 20 the east on the
ESplanade 20 clear the way for the car
riage The detail kept up With the car
rage after II started through tho crowd
as far as the TrtumphAl Bridge as It was
constantly necessary 20 keep tho crowd
from stopping the carriage In their at
tempt 60 forcibly tAke the prisoner. S,rgt
Rothweiler himself having 20 order two
men Of the wheels telling them he would
have 70 shoot them II they did not let 60
u kept Tho revolver in nv pocket until
late IN the evening then ! put It INT" box
and scaled II up. and In this condition |
personally turned II over IN the Chief Of
Polio. of Buffalo AZ about II N a m, sept
:. at Police Headquarters, furnishing at
the time proper Identification therefor.
Il respectfully recommend that my
details - men lie mentioned ia general
orders for their conduct on this occasion
which was all that could 10 de-ired
'Unarmcd detail at Presidents reception
AZ Temple OF Music. Pan-Amerioan FL
position. sept a 1901
Corporal I.ouS Bertschey.. Private-
Herhert Brooks, Arthur crosby, Francis
y O'Bren. Ivey Frnnbough. Dc Wit
Hancock. William Hci-.r, Lewis W Jerni-
gan. Macmillan X KubatI and Patrick
Troy seventy third Company, Coast Ar
,illery. and Private Louis Ner. Eighty
fourth Company cast Artillery.
Armed detail which cleared the ~sy
for tho carriage carrying tho ASSASSIN out
Of the grounds
'Scrgt George W Roth~ciler. Prvstes
Ben Jamin Davis, Francis c McNaugh.
Ernest q Smith. Hiram W. Stevens and
Wilbur II Wostlake. Seventy third Com
pany. Coast Artillery. and Private Deni 7.
Condor. Iifty-fourth Company Coast Ar
tilIery