The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1903-09-09
CRANK AFTER PRESIDENT
Secret Service Men Believe He Was
Bent on Assassination.
HE CARRIED A LOADED REVOLVER.
Seized and Disarmed, the Assailant Openly
Avowed His Purpose To Murder, Blu, Later
Assumed A Different Air And Pretended
That He Expected To Marry Miss Alice
Roosevelt Sent TO Insane Asylum.

Oyster Bay (SpeciaD.-A dementet
man, who was armed with fully load
cd revolver and whom the secret ser
vice operatives believe intended to slay
President Roosevelt, was arrested here
after making three attempts to get to
the President.
The man is Frank Weilbrenner, the
son OF German farmer living at Syos-
set, about five or six miles from Saga
more Hill.
He was arraigned before a magistrate
and then turned over to insanity ex-
perts.
DR.. George A. Stewart and DR.. Irv-
ing s. Barnes conducted the examin-
alton. Wcilbrenner was declared by
them to be insane. He was placed i'm
mediately in the custody OF Sheriff
Johnson, OF Nassau county, and taken
to Mineola on an evening train.
Shortly after 10 o'clock Weilbrcn-
ncr drove to Sycamore Hill in a bug
gy. AS he approached the house he
was stopped by the secret service opera
tive on duty. Weilbrenner said he had
a personal engagement with the Pres
ldent and insisted on seeing him. As
1t was long after the hours when visi-
tors are received the officer declined
to permit him to go to the house and
turned him away.
Soon alter Wcilbrenner returned and
again insisted that he be allowed to see
the President il only for a minute This
time he was ordered away and warned
not to return.
just before II o'clock the man re-
turned third time and demanded OF
the officer that he should be permitted
to see the President at once The Off
Ger seized the man and pulled him from
the buggy, believing now that the iel-
low meant some harm.
Weilbrenner was taken by the. big
slX-ioot secret service man to the sta
BILE back OF the Roosevelt house. Two
stablcmen were given revolvcrs and sat
guard over the captive while an investi-
CATION was made
The first thing found was fully load
ed 32-caliber revolver, which Weilbrcn-
ner lett i'll the buggy. Footprints near
the house aroused the suspicious OF the
secret service man that Wcilbrcnner
had companions. A telephone message
was sent to Oyster Bay, and the en-
tire squad OF secret service men there
five IN nurnber-sprang upon horses
and galloped top-spced to Sycamore
Hill.
A complete search OF the neighbor-
hood failed to produce other develop
ments.
Weilbrenner talked nationally to the
officers on all matters concerning the
mission on which he desired to see the
President
Alter midnight he was brought to
Oyster Bay and locked up.
President Roosevelt was aware of the
trouble. After the man had been turn
ed back the second time, despite his in
sistence that he had an engagement
with the President the officer, to make
assurance doubly sure. inquired of the
President about the fellow. Mr.. Roose-
welt was in his library, only a short dis
tancc IRON the spot where the officer
had stopped Wielbrenners horse. He
told the officer he had no engagement
with anybody.
When Wheilbrenner returned the third
time and the officer seized him and
drew him out of the vehicle over the
front wheel, the scufllc attracted the
Presidents attention. He appeared at
the door overlooking the driveway from
the veranda, but returned to the library
almost Immediately.
The Wcilbrenner incident is the first
serious occurrence OF the kind during
the Presidents summer sojourn at 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
personal safety and immunity from
danger.
Personally he was not perturbed by
the Weilbrenner incident, but. al
though the maintenance OF the guard is
often distasteful to him, he thoroughly
realizes the necessity in the circum-
stances OF having made as certain rs
possible the personal safety OF the
President OF the United States.