The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1903-09-04
INSANE MAN, ARMED WITH A RE.
voLvER, WANTED TO SEE THE
CHIEF EXECUTIVE.
ARRESTED ON THIRD CALL
THE EXAMINING PHYSICIANS DE.
CLARE HIM DEMENTED AND He
is iNcARcERATED.

giving MS name as Henry WellOrennoI
was arrested at Sycamore Hill 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.
drove to Sycamore Hill in a phaeton
buggy. He was stopped by the secret
service operative IN duty. Weilbren-
mel said he had a personal engagement
with the president 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 insisted but the Off
Ger turned him away.
Soon after Weilbrenner returned
and again insisted that he be allowed
to see the president if only for a min
ute. This time he was ordered away
and told not to return.
Just before IL o'clock the man re-
turned a third time and demanded of
the officer that he be permitted to see
the president at once. The officers
response was to take the man from
his buggy and put him in the stables,
where he was placed under the guard
of two stablemen. A revolver was
found in the buggy. Later Weilbren.
ner was brought to the village and
locked up.
Weilbrenner was a~rraigned during
the day before Justice Franklin on
complaint of the secret service oper-
alive who placed him under arrest.
J1cfian iva i, lx1ir r,,oCt{0rol +f,o pp;e
Oner about his movements the pre-.
vious evening. His replies were made
in a quiet tone of voice, but they indi-
Gated apparently beyond a doubt that
the man is crazy. He said he wanted
to marry Miss Alice Roosevelt. q
WeiIbrenner Declared Insane.
The examination of Weilbrunner
was continued in the afternoon. DIR.
George A. Stewart and DR.. Irving S.
Barnes conducted the examination.
Weilbrunner was declared by them to
be insane. He was taken to Mineola,
Long Island, on an evening train and
placed in the custody of the county
authorities.
It appears that President Roosevelt
was aware Of the trouble the secret
service officer had with Weilbrenner.
After the man had been turned back
the second time, despite his insistence
that he had an engagement with the
president, the officer inquired of the
president about the fellow. MI. Roose.
welt was in his library, only a short
distance from the spot where the Off
Ger had stopped Weilbrenner's horse.
He told the officer he had no engage.
ment with anybody.
When Weilbrenner returned a third
time with a demand that he be per.
mitted to see the president, the officer
seized him and drew him out of the
vehicle over the front wheel. The
noise Of the scuf1e attracted the pyesi.
dents attention. He appeared at the
door overlooking the driveway from
the veranda as Weilbrenner was taken
into the stables, but returned to the
library, almost Immediately.
Weilbrenner has been practicing
with his revolver recently, but he
would give no reason for his interest
in craftsmanship and said he could
not shoot very well.
It is thought that hard work and
trouble over a mortgage on his fathers
farm had something to do with unset.
Ting Weilbrenner's mind.