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rose to help him. He mentioned them
to sit down.
Let me alone. I'm all right" he
said.
As soon as Colonel Roosevelt had
assured himself that the assassin was
safe in the hands of the police. he
gave orders to drive on to the Audi
torium.
They had driven hardly one of the
four blocks from the hotel to the Au-
ditorium when John McGrath. another
of Colonel Roosevelt's secretaries, ut
tered a sharp exclamation and pointed
10 the cOlOners breast.
Look. colonel" he said. there is
a hole in your overcoat."
Colonel Roosevelt looked down, saw
the hole. then unbuttoned the big
brown army coat which he was wear
ing and thrust his hand beneath 1t.
When he withdrew II his fingers were
stained with blood.
Colonel Roosevelt was not at all dis
mayed by his discovery.
1T looks as though I had been hit"
he said, but I don't think II is any
thing serious"
DIR. Scurrey Terrell OF Dallas, Texas,
who had entered the automobile just
before it started of. insisted that the
colonel return to the hotel. He would
not hear of it, however, and the car
was driven to the Auditorium.
As soon as they reached the build
ing, Colonel Roosevelt was taken into
! dressing room and his outer gar
ments were removed.
DIR. Terrell with the help Of DR.
John Stratton of Milwaukee and DR.
s. s. Sorenson of Racine. Wis. who
were in the audience and came to the
dressing room on n call from the plat
form. made superficial examination
OF the wound. They agreed that q
YVES impossible to hazard a guess al
to the extent OF the coloners injuries
and that he should by all means go a
once to a hospital"
Il viii deliver this speech or die,
said the colonel
After the meeting closed Roosevelt
was rushed to his automobile ant
flashed through the streets to tn
emergency hospital
The operating room had been place.
In readiness to receive Colonel Roose
welt and six of the leading surgeon
of Milwaukee were awaiting his aF
rival. Colonel Roosevelt was undress
cd and placed upon the operating tabl
/ although he insisted that he was no
badly hurt and that the doctors wer
| taking II too seriously
| An examination of the wound show
ed that 1t had been made by bulle
of large size.
II entered the fleshy part of tn
right breast, half way between tn
collar bone and lower rib. The phys
clans found that they knew no NOR
after their examination and. as to tn
location OF the bullet. and II was dt
cided TO send for an N-ray machin
\ to determine to what depth the mis-
/ sle had penetrated.
While he was waiting for the X-ra
l machine. Colonel Roosevelt sat up o.
the operating table and talked pol
tics and joked with the physicians.
d AssaiIant Talks Freely.
n After long cross examination Cole
z mel RoOsevelt's assailant, job
r Schrenk. talked more freely.
The shooting was the result Of
II carefully laid plan by Schrank. whic
IS was often Illustrated. but In which h
To-. finally succeeded. according to hi
story
d The man talked freely after his frs
e stubborn refusal to give his nam
e when he was arrested by Sergear
Mooney at the Gilpatrick hotel
According to his story. he formerl
e ran a saloon at $40 f. Tenth Stree
e between avenues d and c. New Yor
70 city. He was born In Erdlng. Bavarii
l. two hours out of Munich. the capita
I. He is 36 years old and came to thi
d country when he was nine years ol
r. with his parents. He had been engai
ed in the saloon business. as pr,
1t prietor and as an employe OF men
e. bers of his family nearly all his liz
m until he decided that II was his dut
Is to kill Colonel Roosevelt
70 Acquainted With Colonel.
:. He said he had been personally a
"A quainted with Roosevelt since the CO
onel was police commissioner Of Ne
Ia York in 1895.
He said he deemed II his duty, aft
G.. much consideration OF the situatio
,s to put him out OF the way. He was II
In ing at his home address at that tin
a. he said, but soon after he had drea
a. in which former President McKinl'
appeared to him. He was told by n
to Kinley. in this dream that 1t was q
M Czolgosz who murdered him but Roos
Ie Welt. He said Mckinley. In his dreal
,e told him that the blood was on Roos
m yelt's hands and that Roosevelt hi
killed him SO that he might becou
n, president