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ROOSEVELT
HOTEL IN
Slightly Wounded in.
the Breast.
ASSAIlANT CAPTURED
Was Prevented From Firing a
Second Time.
IS EVIDENTLY A MANIAC,
He Issues inCOherent Statement.
When Arrested.
He Issues incoherent Statement
When Arrested. :

Milwaukee, WIS, OCt. 10 1heoooio
Roosevelt was shot and signify
wounded here as he was leaving his
hotel for the auditorium, where he
was to deliver his speech of the even
ing.
His assailant, who later gave ey1.
dence of dementia, gave his name as
John Schrank, and his address as $40
East Tenth street, New York.
Before Schrank could fire second
time, Albert Martin, stenographer with
the Roosevelt party, and Henry r.
Cochems, former football player az
Wisconsin university, grabbed Schrank.
Colonel Roosevelt stood beside the au-
tomobile which he had been about to
enter when shot and directed the po-
lcemen who were relieving Martin
and Cochems from their struggles with
Schrank Mr.. Roosevelt insisted on
proceeding to the hall and going
through with at least a part OF his
speech.
An examination of the wound by DR..
Eaton, of Milwaukee, and three other
surgeons showed that the bullet had
entered the f1eshy part of the right
chest.
The wound bled freely for some
time, but Colonel Roosevelt said he
was suffering no pain, and SO far as
could be learned there was no internal
hemorrhage.
The colonel was at first supposed to
have escaped uninjured, for moment
after Schrank had wedged through the
crowd and fired at him Mr.. Roosevelt
smiled as if to reassure, the people IL
turmoil that surged about him. EiS|
suddeniy; ewsver, HIS b 5 asis
his coat and was seen to vince for an;
instant Then he moved toward the
automobile and stepped into it, said a
word to his associates and the next
moment the throng was making way
for his machine and the automobile.
was whirling toward the Auditorium.
The crowd that struggled about the
assailant in front of Colonel Roose-
velt's hotel after he had left for the
hall took his departure to mean that
he had been uninjured and the crowd
cheered. But when he had reached the
Auditorium and made his way amid
great cheering to the front of the plat
form those close, to him could see a
streak of red on his white waistcoat.
"An attempt has just been made to
kill me-" said the colonel to an au-
dience that had stifled it's first cheers
and now listened in absolute silence.
81 am carrying the bullet in my body
now, and so l will have to cut my
speech short"
Through the great throng that had
been crowding about the colonel's au-
tomobile in front of the hotel and
cheering him as he was walking to-
ward it, the police after Colonel Roose-
velt had departed dragged Schrank in
to the hotel. While Martin, the stenog
Cling with him and later while the po-
lice were pulling him away from the
crowd and into the lobby Schrank
raved incoherently.
Colonel Roosevelt in the meantime,
after making the announcement in the
ncll IhdI hS hoo uOOh ol1OI Cuu lCpCdtT
ing it to the Progressives of Mil
waukee and members of his own party
that surrounded him was hurried away
to the hospital, where it was said that
he was growing weaker from loss of
blood.
Schrank is Socialist. From the al
most incoherent TRADE which he de-
lvered after being arrested and from
Memoranda found in his pocket it is
evident that he has been following
Colonel Roosevelt for at least week.
Among his effects was memorandum
showing the schedule of Colonel Roose-
velt's party, beginning with a speech
delivered in South Carolina on Sept
21.
The crowd that surrounded Colonel
Roosevelt's automobile in front of the
Gilpatrick hotel, while dense in the
Immediate vicinity of the machine,
was not very large and therefore
theer were few policemen to interfere
with Schrank than if the gathering
had been larger one. The reception
to Colonel Roosevelt up to the time
of the shooting was the least demon
strative of the entire tour. When he
reached Milwaukee there was barely
half hundred people to greet him,
because of the LaFollette sentiment it
is supposed.
Colonel Roosevelt had been taken to
the Gilpatrick hotel for dinner by a
group of the Progressive leaders. The
party hurried through the dinner so
that Mr.. Roosevelt could go directly to