The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-09-03
He Wanted to Marry Miss
Alice Roosevelt,
He WASPUTU UNDERARREST
Insisted on Seeing Presiden.---Said Miss Alice
Called on Him in Red Automobile,
He'd Had Wireless Talk
With Roosevelt.
(By the Associated Press.)


oyster Bay, l.. l., Sept "A man CIV
ing his name as Frank Weilbrenner, was
arrested at Sycamore Hill late last night
while making a persistent demand to see
President Roosevelt The man was
armed with a revolver fully loaded. He
was taken to the village and placed in
the town prison.
Shortly after 10 o'clock last night We'll
brenner drove to Sycamore Hill in q
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 received the officer declined to per-
NIT him to so to the house. The man
insisted, but the officer carried him away.
Soon after Weilbrenner returned and
again insisted that he be allowed to sec
the President for a minute. This time
he 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 Off
GERS responded by taking the man from
his buggy and putting him In the stables,
where he was placed under the guard of
two stable men. revolver was found
in the buggy. Later Weilbrenner was
brought to the village and locked up. He
is five feet eight inches high, twenty eight
years old, has a medium sized dark
moustache dark eyes and evidently is OF
German descent He resides in Syosset,
about five miles inland from Oyster Bay.
He was well dressed in a suit of dark
material and wore an old fashioned derby
kat.
Wine Weilbrenner talked nationally to
the officers last night, it seems evident
from his conversation today that he is
demented. He said that he had received
telegraphic communication from the
President directing him to call at Saga
more Hill.
Weilbrenner's buggy was taken to Il
local livery barn When asked what had
become of the rig. Weilbrenner replied
"Oh the President has taken care of
it. That's all right
Weilbrenner, several years ago had a
nervous attack which rendered him ment-
ally helpless for day or two, but his
family supposed that he had been quite
restored by the medical treatment he
received at that time. Since then he had
manifested no symptoms of mental aber-
ration. He had no socalistic or anarch-
istic tendencies so far as known, never
having been interested in any questions
of that kind. He was employed daily on
his fathers farm.
Weilbrenner was arraigned today be-
fore justice Franklin on compL int OF the
secret service operatives VITO placed him
under arrest. Welbrenners brother, Will
liam, was present at the examination.
Justice Franklin questioned the prisoner
about his movements last night.
His replies were made in a quiet tone
of view but they indicated, apparently
beyond doubt, that the man is crazy.
Asked why he went to Sycamore Hill, he
replied:
81 went to see the President about his
daughter Alice"
FHad you an engagement with the
PRESIDENT"
yes"
''How was the engagement made?"
Il talked with the President last night"
replied Weilbrenner
How did you talk with him?"
"Oh, just talked
"a sort of wireless talk. was it?"
Eyes that is it, wireless TALK
"Why did you want to see the Presi-
dent about Miss Alce?''
l wanted to marry her.
did you ever see Miss Roosevelt
Yes, I saw her night before last
Where did you see her?'
''At my house,
did she go over there?"
''Yes, she came in a red automobile"
who accompanied her?'
Her brother, Theodore
III ~,
concluded he would hold Weilbrenncr
until an inquiry of lunacy could be held
upon his case
The examination of Weilbrenner was
continued this afternoon. Dr. George A.
Stewart and DR.. Irving s. Barnes con
Quoted the examination. Weilbrenncr
was declared by them to be insane. He
was placed in the custody Of Sheriff John
son, of Nassau county