Perth Amboy evening news., 1903-09-03
AN ARMED LUNATIC
President Roosevelt Endan-
gered by a Crank.
Henry WeiIbrenner when Arrested
Said He Would Have Shot the
President-TOId story of Want
ing to Marry Miss Roosevelt.


ing to Marry Miss Roosevelt.
OYSTER BAY, n. Y, Sept. 3.-With
a loaded revolver Henry Weilbrenner
of Syosset, n. Y. made three attempts
to pass the guard at Sycamore Hill, in
sisting that he had IN appointment
with the president, and was arrested
by a secret service agent.
Attracted by the noise of a disturb
ance in the grounds surrounding Saga
more Hill, Mr.. Roosevelt stepped out
to the porch. Less than a hundred feet
away in a buggy stood Henry We'll
brenner, a young farmer, of Syosset, on
Long Island. with Il revolver aimed di-
rectly at the president as he stood sill
houetted by the light from his library.
Within a fraction of a second Il bullet
would have sped OF its way had not the
maniac's revolver been knocked from
his hand by a secret service agent.
Weilbrenner has been closely ques-
toned as to whether he had any ac-
completes. but so far as is known de-
MES that any one except himself was
connected with the attempt on the pres
ident'S life.
But he admits his own part in it.
Il wanted to kill him. | had my
shooting iron ready" he told the secret
service agents.
Weilbrenner gives every indication of
being insane, his denentia taking the
form of fancied injuries he has receiv-
ed at the presidents hands.
Weilbrenner fancies that his w
misfortunes and those of his family
are due to the presidents attitude to-
ward organized labor, and it is learned
that he has for several months been
cherishing a grievance against the
president.
Arraigned before Justice Franklin,
the young mar declared that he want
ed to marry Miss Alice Roosevelt ana
wa remanded for examination as to
his sanity.
The prisoners brother William eX-
planned that several years ago Henry
had a nervous attack which unbal-
anced him mentally, but his family
supposed that he had been quite re-
stored. Since then he had manifested
no symptoms of insanity. He had no
socialistic or anarchistic tendencies so
far as known, never having been inter
ested in any question of that kind. He
was employed daily on his fathers
farm.
When Weilbrenner was asked by Jus
tice Franklin why he went to Saga
more Hill he replied quietly:
Il went to see the president about
his daughter Alice"
Q.-Had you an engagement with the
president? A.-Yes.
Q.-How was that engagement made!
Al talked with the president last
night.
Q.-How did you talk with him? A
oh. l just talked.
GA sort of wireless talk, was it!
A.-Yes; that is tia wireless talk.
Q.-Why did you want to see the
president about Miss Alice? Al
wanted to marry her.
Odd you ever see Miss Roosevelt:
Ayes: | saw her night before last.
Q.-Where did you see her? A.-At
my house.
Odd she go over there? Ayes;
she came in a red automobile.
Q.-Who accompanied her? A.-Her
brother Theodore.
The Weilbrenner incident is the first
serious occurrence of the kind during
the presidents summer s@ojourn ut Sag
amore Hill. 1t has demonstrated com
pletely, in the opinion of officials here,
the wisdom of the close and systematic
guard which is maintained at all times
over the president. He is exposed fire.
quently, it is true, to assault, but every
care that human agencies can devise is
exercised constantly to insure his per-
sonal safety and immunity from dan
ger. Personally he was not perturbed
by the Weilbrenner incident; but. al
though the maintenance of the guard
is often distasteful to him, he thorough
ly realizes the necessity in the circum-
stances of having made as certain as
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