The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-09-13
CRANK LOCKED UP
 AT OYSTER BAY
PERSISTED IN EFFORT TO SEE THE PRESIDENT AND SETTLE
 THE COAL QUESTION

Had a Permit for Carrying a Revolver,
 Issued by New York Police AuthOri-
 ties the Day Before, but Had No
 weapOn-YOung, We'll Dressed and
 Sane on All Subjects but Anthracite
 Put in Jail Pending Examination as
 to His Sanity.
 Oyster Bay Sept. 12-Isaac Schamlis, Russian Jew, twenty years old, was arrested here to-day, and after an eX- animation before Justice of the Peace Walter Franklin was sent to Mineola, L. l., to be examined as to his sanity. The arrest was made by secret ser- vice agent, one of the personal guards, of the president.
 Schamus,r who resides at 351 East Eff ty-second street, New York, arrived here at 1920 o'clock this afternoon from New York, and soon after noon had an interview with MT. Barnes, assistant secretary to the president. Schamus
 desired to see the president and talk to him about the price of coal. He said he was the general coal ageG of Great CT New York. There was imminent danger, ill his opinion, of a general strike among the miners in the anthfa- cite coal region, and that strike, he was assured, would result in great hard ships for the people of the country. He wanted ten minutes with the president to tell him of it. and urged that he ap-
 point committee of three men wtt should regulate the, output of the coal supply so as to provide the poor with fuel at reasonable prices, even in the event of q strike.
 Secretary Barnes recognized at once that Schamus was the man who recent ly had written one letter and sent two telegrans to the president on the sub ject of the price of coal, and he inform ed him that 1t would not be possible to arrange an interview for him at the moment. "
 Later in the afternoon the secret ser- vice agent found Schamus in his room at hotel and placed him under arrest. The young man was lying on his bed reading a copy of Bacons essays, and near him was lying copy of Finer sons essays. He talked perfectly ra- tionally on all subjects except that of the price of coal. He was we'll dressed and said he had been educated in the
 grammar schools and in the night hist school of New York. He said he was an agent for James Gordon & Co.,, coal dealers on East Forty-second street, New York, and that he wanted Presi- dent Roosevelt to take up the question of the price, of coal for the plain people.
 Schamus made no objection to accom- panying the secret service man to the office of Justice, Franklin. The justice uestioned him at length in the pres ence of a throng of people, who had l assembled out of curiosity. Schamus answered all questions intelligently and rationally until the subject of coal was Suggested. Then he began to deliver an address on the question of the al- legged oppression of the people by the | coal magnates. He reviewed his plan | to have the president appoint a com | mittee and declared that had not Pres ident Roosevelt settled the coal strike three years ago more blood would have | been shed than the world ever saw. | He asserted that he was member of a big society which had discussed this question, and he knew what he WeS | talking about
 l In the course of his remarks he turn 1 ed to 8 bystander who had asked him ! a question about anarchy and declared | the time would come when the people would live without the restraint of law, as laws would be unnecessary. He pointed to President Roosevelt as an example of what man could accom- plish by individual effort, and said every man could do as the president l had done.
 The young man, it was determined by
 Justice Franklin, should be sent to tn, county authorities with a view to hay ing his mental condition passed upon, and accordingly he was taken to Mine ola by constable on the 4:20 o'clock train. He manifested no symptoms of
 dangerous insanity.
 1 When searched at Mineola a permit to carry a revolver, signed by Captain Lantry. of the New York police force, and Commissioner McAdoo was found on him. The permit was issued yester. day. Schamus said, however, that he had not carried revolver.
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