New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-11-28
POLICE GUARD USELESS.
MN REACHES PRESIDENT
Gi7es Him Letter IN Church VeSti-
bule-Harmless Crank.

,.s protection OF President Roosevelt yesterday
-,o-uing failed 70 prevent a supposedly harmless
orsnk from entering the Church of the Holy
communion. carrying a suspicious looking
..tchel and thrusting an envelope into the
Presidents hand. Half a regiment Of police were
.pout the church at the time and mere than
score OF detectives and Secret Service men were
81 the entrances while the funeral Of James
King Oracle. attended by the President. was be-
.ng held Police Commissioner Greene and
Inspector Brooks in command of the police
forces. were walking out of the church with
President Roosevelt at the time Of the surprising
incident
The envelope handed TO the President con-
ssined nothing more harmful than circular
for an alleged cancer cure. and the offender,
Arthur Buell. Denling who was arrested and
sent TO Bellevue for examination TO his sanity,
apparently was moved TO approach Mr. Roose-
welt n the church because he thought he could
IN that way bring his supposed remedy 10 the
attention OF Emperor William. If he had been
an anarchist with satchel full Of bombs, how
ever. he might have got near the President just
as easily for all the police precautions.
DsAning was known by sight 10 some Of the
newspaper men who were at the church They
remembered him as the man who created excite
ment at the pier Of the White Star Line at the
time Of the departure Of J. Pierpont Morgan and
Andrew Carnegie for Europe last summer,
when he declared that some calamity was about
20 befa1l them and warned them to flee from
the wrath TO come"
Deming is q stocky little man of sixty-fve,
with white hair and whiskers. who has been 60
ing about the city recently selling the alleged
remedy which he manufactures. He carried a
few cans OF the medicine in his satohel and held
an envelope containing printed circulars about
Il when he got OF Sixth-ave- car and walked
TO the Twentieth-st. entrance of the church.
Detectives and maid were stationed there to
see that only friends OF the President or of the
Oracle family entered
None Of these detectives seemed to take any
notice Of DeHling as he walked into the vesti-
bule He told the maid that he had an i'm
portant communication for the President in the
envelope. and that he had been sent to that door
by the sexton of the church. She showed him
into small anteroonl, where he sat down and
began 10 write On sheet Of paper with the
rectory notehead at the top. What he wrote
was:
i is well 70 pay homage TO the dead. but it IS Of
eefilz, re srfcle on HE medical value Of char
coal which is inclosed. Dr.. stevens. the chief
ISS5le5 me for ioaninS him COPY Know it viii
absorb an impurities in the blood tumors and
cancers and prolong Emperor --
PRESIDENT TAKES LETTER
He was about to add Williams life" when he
heard some one say, The President is coming
now"
De-nlne hastily thrust the writing into his
pocket. picked up his envelope and satchel.
walked hack into the vestibule and saw Presi-
dent Roosevelt approaching The President
walked along the aisle beside General Greene,
and behind them was Inspector Brooks As they
reached the vestibule Deming stepped forward
and thrust the envelope into the Presidents
hand, saying:
Here's something I wish you would read
going out.
President Roosevelt took the envelope without
comment and handed it to General Greene, who
passed it to Inspector Brooks. AS the President
and General Greene passed on, one Of the de-
tectives took the envelope from Brooks and at
the same tine said. pointing 20 Dening:
There is the man who handed it."
Inspector Brooks al once ordered the arrest Of
Deming. at the same time recognizing him as
man from whom he had bought the charcoal
remedy" and whom he had seen selling his meoi-
cine at Police Headquarters The arrest caused
2 little excitement al the church. but Detective
Sergeant Kinsler took the prisoner away quickly.
At Police Headquarters Deming said he was
V-idower and lived al No. 126 Storm-ave.. Jersey
City. He said he ha6 Office room with J. c.
Davis & Co. at No. $50 Broadway. He said he
had tried 70 see President Roosevelt on previ-
Gus occasion and induce him 10 send some Of the
charcoal remedy" 10 Emperor William Of Ger
many but he had not been allowed 10 see the
President He had tried 20 get other persons TO
send the medicine 10 Emperor William and had
failed. he said. No weapon was found on him
when he was searched in the Detective Bureau,
and his satchel was found 10 contain only few
cans Of his remedy.
Dening offered some Of the medicated char
coal 10 Captain Langan, who declined H. and
sent the prisoner 10 the ToIbs police court.
While waiting 10 be arrajgned before Magistrate
Flammer Dening showed Z statement about his
ancestry. containing the following
NV relatives have been in this country since 1872
NY paterusl great-great- grandfather was John
keiped bjde in an old oak tree in Hartford. ny
mothers grandfather was IN command OF two com
killed Nv brother was Captain z. NJ. Deming. and
he served in Company ], Of the 6lst Regiment New
wounds received in the war.
The statement also said that Deming had
been introduced 10 Mrs. Ulysses s. Grant in
l616 and had talked 70 her in her private par
Tor, next to the Blue Room in the White House,
for three hours. lie said he had been introduced
TO every President. from Grant 10 Roosevelt and
10 James c. Blaine and Roscoe Conkling. In
ms conversation with the hangers on in court
he said
me President ought to have more sense than
70 nave me arrested. He is an extremely stupid
H y Is pretty nice state Of affairs when
~ nave President that an American cit
izen can speak 10"
men magistrate Flsn,nler returned he talked
~ q 70" zone to Detective Kinsler for some min
NOes' ana men said to Derning who had been
arraigned before him. 'o 1
what IS this charcoal reroea,,9.