Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-09-03
Insists on Seeing President at
Oyster Bay.
Has Idea That He Would Like to
Marry Miss Roosevelt.
Quietly Taken Care of and Will En-
ter Retreat"

Tuesday night, while making a persis-
tent demand to see President Roosevelt.
The man was armed with a revolver
fully loaded. He was taken to the vii
lage and placed in the town prison.
Shortly after 10 o'clock, Tuesday
night, Weilbrenner drove to Sycamore
Hill in a phaeton buggy. He was
stopped by the secret service officer
on duty. Weilbrenner said he had a
personal engagement with the Presi-
dent and desired to see him. AS it was
long after the hours when visitors are
received, the officer declined to permit
him to go to the house. The man in
sisted, but the officers turned him
away.
Soon after Weilbrenner returned and
again insisted that he be allowed to
see the President if only for a minute.
This time he was ordered away and
warned not to return.
/ Just before II o'clock, the man re-
turned a third time and demanded of
the officer that he should be permitted
to see the President. The officers re-
Spouse was to take the man from his
buggy and put him in the stables
where he was placed under guard of
two stablemen. A revolver was found
in the buggy.
Later Weilbrenner was brought to
the village and locked up. He is five
feet eight inches high, 2S years old, has
a medium sized dark mustache, black
eyes and evidently of German descent.
He resides in Syosset, about five miles
;,,lo Do
dressed in a suit of dark material and
wore an old fashioned derby hat. 1t is
thought by the officers that Weilbren-
ner was accompanied by two other men,
as foot prints We're found in the mud
alongside of the buggy tracks. In view
Of this fact, the officers on duty tele-
phoned to the village for assistance and
soon was joined by two other secret
service operatives.
While Weilbrenner talked nationally,
to the officers, Tuesday night, it is
thought by the officers from his CONVEX
sation, Wednesday, that he is demented.
He said he received a Geographic COM
munication from the President direct
ing him to call at Sycamore HILL We'll
brenner's team was taken to a local
delivery barn. When asked what had
become of the rig, Weilbronner replied;
ooh, the President has taken care of
it. That's all right
Weilbrenner is regarded by those who
have seen him, to be dangerous luna
tic. At Syosset it is learned that the
man is the son of a truck farmer and is
one of three brothers. He has two sis
tiers. The family is held in general es-
TEEN.
Weilbrenner, several years ago, had
a nervous attack which rendered him
mentally helpless for a day or two but
his family supposed that he had been
quite restored by the medical treat
ment he received at that time. He had
no Socialistic or Anarchistic tendencies
so far as known, never having been in
terested in any questions of that kind
He was employed daily on his fathers
farm.
Weilbrenner was arraigned, today.
before Justice Franklin on complaint
of the secret service operatives who
placed him under arrest. His brother
William was present at the eXamina-
ton. Justice Franklin questioned the
prisoner about his movements, last
night. His replies were made in a quiet
tone of voice, but they indicated, APP
parently beyond doubt, that the man
was crazy. Asked why he went tc
Sycamore HILL he replied:
Il went to see the President about
his daughter, Alice"
Had you an engagement with the
President?" Yes"
"How was that engagement made p"
Il talked with the President, last
night" replied Weilbrenner.
How did you talk with him?" ooh,
I just talked
"A sort of wireless talk was it?''
Yes, that is it, a wireless talk"
Why did you want to see the Pres,
1dent about Miss Alice?" II wanted
to marry her
DID you ever see Miss ROOSEVELT
Yes, l saw her night before last"
Where did you see her?" "At my
house" i
Did she go over there?" Eyes, she
came in a red automobile" Il
VINO accompanied herr" He
brother Theodore" i
Justice Franklin, after the examina
ton, concluded he would hold Wei! |
brenner until an inquiry of lunacy
could be held upon his case. The ex-
then was postponed until |
o'clock this evening, when alienists viii |
be present.
The examination of Weilbrenner was
this afternoon. DR.. George
A. Stewart and DR.. Irving S. Barnes |
the examination. Weilbren-
ner was declared by them to be i'm
sane, He will be placed Immediately in
the custody of Sheriff Johnson of Mas
sau county. His committal to a sani- |
tarium will have to be made by the
county court.
Nellbrenner was taken to Mineola Long
Island, on an evening train and placed |
y custody of the county authorities.
1t appears that President Roosevelt was
ware OF the trouble the secret service of
iG T1 nad with WeiIbrenner last night.
w men Weilbrenner returned a third time |
slth aefnand that he be permitted to SEE
ne president, the officer seized him ane
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