Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1901-09-28

cu.l.-Vife Uvci Tue hUuUuIell anu tno
other little above. Blood soaked the
white linen.
"You are shot, SIR" said Detective
Geary.
Eyes, guess am," replied the
president very coolly as he sank into
q chair.
George Foster, one Of the secret serv-
ice men detailed to guard the presi'
dent, said:
ut was after we were in the ambu-
lance that he displayed the greatest
fortitude. We were on our way to the
hospital. I had one arm under him,
with his head resting on my shoulder.
He felt his breast and said quietly,
Foster, does not that feel like bull
letT put my hand to his breast and
felt something hard and oblong under
the skin.
"'Yes, it does, Mr.. President re-
piled.
"'Well, we have got. one of them
anyway he said, and, smiling family,
he closed his eyes"
SOuCtIuluS tuC PlSSiNShe . Hioe
spoken word of anxiety for his wife
after he was shot, gentleman who
was standing only few feet away
said that to his dying day he never
would forget the expression on Presi-
dent McKinley's face when the assas-
sins bullets struck him.
II have tried several times to see II
I could find words in the English Ian.
guage to describe that awful express
sion in Mr.. McKinley's face" he said,
"but l am utterly at loss. l never
saw so much. never imagined so much
could be conveyed in look as blazed
out from the presidents face in that
one terrible instant Of time. 1t seemed
to run through the entire gamut OF
human sentiment and to involve all
shades with two single exceptions.
There was not 80 much as trace or
hint of anything approaching fear or
anger in It. l should say that the
emotion perhaps that seemed to pre-
dominate was that of sorrow or per-
haps kind of plying amazement
end inquiry. Put into words possibly
the nearest that would come to inter-
prerlng the expression strongest in the
presidents face would be: You poor,
unhappy fellow! What Is wrong?
What has happened to you? Why is
1t that you are numbering me?'
But it is no use. I have tried and
fried again, just by way of experiment,
to say in words the things that the
presidents expression said at that mo-
ment, but l never shall succeed any
more than l shall ever forget the pic
ture of it all. If the beast who fired the
shots were human-which, of course, he
is mott should think the memory Of
that look as his victim sank back into
Mr.. Cortelyou's arms would drive him
raving mad.
PERSONALLY did not hear the presi-
dent say not to hurt the man. heard
him say, I trust Mrs. Mckinley will
not near Of this and then added. or IL
she does that 1t will not be eXaggerat-
ed These were the first words he
spoke, and heard them distinctly. l
also heard him say In reply to the Mex
lean minister's excited inquiry If he
was shot, Yes, think that l am
This heard ALSO But If did not
hear his request that the assassin be
not injured 1t by no means proves that
he dix! rc+ say 1t. In that moment of
terrible e..... :nent 1t Is easy enough
to believe that l did not hear every
thing and Ink it very probable he
did say it, for If ever saw commisera-
ton for another in mans face it was
in President McKinley's face as he
turned that indescribable look upon his
would be murderer"
II was within FIVE feet Of President
Mckinley when he was shot the other
afternoon" said Charles j. P. Lucas Of
Cambridge to reporter Of the New
York Times. "The scene that followed
the shooting was one Of pandemonium,
and the horror Of the attempt to muir
der the nations chief was something |
do not care to 60 through again"
Mr. Lucas Is prominent athlete Of
Cambridge and was in Buffalo Compel
ing in the international events at the
exposition grounds. He went to the
Temple of Music to meet the president
and was only four persons behind Cool
gosz, the assassin. in the line. Mr.. Luz
cas- reached home at noon today.
1.-THE secret service men," he contin-
ued, seemed to have their eyes on a