The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1903-09-09
i CRAZY Man.
armed With Pistol Insisted &c See:
ing the President,
BUT WAS NOT ALLOWED TO DO so
he Called Three Times Late at Night
Saying He Had an Engage
ment With the Pres
lnent With the I
iG,ant.

ment With the Pres
idsnt.
A dispatch from Oyster Bay says a
man giving his name as Frank We'll
brenner, was arrested at Sycamore
Hill late Wednesday night while max
ing a persistent demand to see Presi
dent Roosevelt The man was armed
with revolver fully loaded. He was
taken to the village and placed in the
town prison.
Shortly after 10 o'clock Wednesday
night Weilbreuner drove to Sycamore
Hill in a buggy. He was stopped by
the secret service operative on duty.
Weilbrenner said he had a personal
engagement with the president and
wished to see him. AS it was long
after the hours when visitors are re-
ceived, the officer declined to permit
him to 90 to the house. The man in
sisted but the officer turned him
away.
Soon after Weilbrenner returned
and again insisted that he be allowed
to sec the president for minute.
This time ne was. ordered away and
warned not to return. Just before
II o'clock the man returned a third
time and demanded of the officer that
he should be permitted to see The
president at once. The officers re-
sponse was to take the man from his
buggy and put Lin in the stables:
where he was placed under the guard
of two stablemen. A revolver was
found in the buggy. Later Weiloren-
ner was brought to the village and
locked up. He is feet inches high.
% years old, has a medium sized dark
moustache, dark eyes and evidently
is of German decent. He resides in
Syosset, about i've miles inland from
Oyster Bay He was well dressed in
a suit of dark material and wore an
old fashioned derby hat.
While Weilbrenner talked nationally
to the officers last night, it seems evil
dent from his conversation today that
he is demented. He said that he had
received a telegraph communication
from the president directing him to
call at Sycamore Hill.
Weilbrenner'S buggy was taken TO
a local livery barn. When asked what
became Of the rig, Weilbrenner re-
Piled: ''Oh, the president has taken
care of it. That's all right.
Weilbrenner, several years ago, had
a nervous attack which rendered him
mentally helpless for day or two but
his family supposed that he had been
quite restored hy the medical treat
ment he received at the time. Since
then he had manifested no symptoms
of mental alteration. He had no So
cialistic OF 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. Weilbren-
ner's brother, William was present at
the examination. Justice Franklin
questioned the prisoner about his
movements last night.
His replies were made in quiet
tone Of voice but they indicated, ap-
parently, beyond a doubt, that tbe
man. is crazy. Asked why be went to
Sycamore Hill, he replied:
II went to see the president about
his daughter, Alice"
HAD You an engagement with the
president?;;
"Yes."
''How was the engagement rnade:"
II talked with the president last
night" replied Weilbrenner.
How did you talk with him."
''Oh, just talked
"a sort of wireless talk was it,
Yes, that is it, wireless talk
"Why did you want to see the pres
ident about Miss Alice"
Il wanted to marry her."
''Did you ever see Miss Roosevelt"
Eyes, saw her night before last"
"Wheredid you see herr"
''At my house"
Did she 60 over there?"
Eyes, she came in red auton oOile. ;"
'Who accompanied herr"
Her brother, Theodore. >
Justice Franklin after the eXamina-
5ion concluded he would hold We'll
brenner until an inquiry OF lunacy
could be held upon his case.
The examination of Weilhrenner
was continued Wednesday afternoon.
DR.. George A. Stewart and DIR. lrv-
ing S. Barnes conducted the examina-
tion. Weilbrenner was declared by
them to be insane. He was placed in
the custody Of Sheriff Johnson of
Nassau county.
Weilbrenner WAS taken to Mlne0la.
L. l.. On an evening train and placed
in the custody Of the county authorl-
ties.
Itappears that President Roosevelt
was aware Of the trouble the secret
officer had with Weilbrenner, We'd
nesday night. After the man had
been turned back the second time
despite his inSistence that he had an
engagement with the president, the
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