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place for lunch or a casual glass OF
beer. He was a quiet, unasslmng fellow.
and l often sat down with him for a
few minutes chat, although at the time
! did not even know his name.
1t was just nine months ago when he
came TO me and asked for a room. | gave
him one at 81 a week, and he was regis
tered under the name 'Flammang He
told me at the time he was in the insur-
anCe business. A few days later he re-
marked TO me that his name as inscribed
J. on the register was 4 mistake and should
/ be 'SchIank.' He did not appear TO be
prosperous--in fact. about two months
ago he asked me TO help him get a Job
somewhere as bartender or waiter
Finally, about the last Of September,
Schrank quit the hotel, leaving no for
warding address He said that he was
going out Of town 10 visit relatives A
few days later he sent me a souvenir
postal card from Southern town,
think in South Carolina.
He was a little chap, stubby, calm
faced and quiet voiced He was lnoffen-
siye and almost shrinking In demeanor.
He never had anything TO say TO my
other customers and seldom stayed long
in the barroom. He would come in and
have his beer at about 10 o'clock and then
90 upstairs TO his bed.
When he did stay IN the barroom he
would sit quietly in a corner just merely
watching what went on. l never knew
him to even mention the word socialism.
Il never was so surprised in my life
as when l heard that the little chap had
whipped out revolver and attempted TO
kill Theodore Roosevelt. He was such a
quiet little man. Three weeks ago he
left for California, / understood"
As yet there has been nothing 70 show
that the man was a Socialist Charles
Edward Russell, Socialist candidate for
Governor Of New York searched the rec
ords Of his party, and failed TO find the
name Of the would-be assassin. WhcT-
ever one met Socialist, that man first
FASTENED to state that Schrank was posi-
lively not Socialist. Also. there wera
none among those who had met Schrank
who could remember having heard him
discuss either politics or socialism.
Police Inspector Faurot said that his
best detectives were tracing the record Of
the man, at the request OF Chief Jansen
OF the Milwaukee Police Department.
Find Deeds and Letters.
Inspector Faurot and Detectives Roddy
and DAILY, OF Brooklyn, last night found in
the Old Homestead Hotel, at No. 14S
Cooper street Long Island City, valise
of Schranks containing memoranda, deeds
and letters. They also found there q
photograph Of Schrank.
At the house at No. 443 East S1st street.
where Schrank once lived, the detectives
learned that Edward Lauringer collected
the rents for the house. They quickly
traced Lauringer TO the Old Homestead
where he is manager.
Lauringer told Deputy Commissioner
Dougherty that Schrank had left the
valise there in January Of this year. After
that the management Of the Old Home
stead lost sight OF Schrank and did not
hear from him until month later, when
Schrank returned and borrowed from a
man whose identity the police refused TO
disclose the sum OF $3.50. Twenty-Five
days later--on February 22--Schrank
went away again and was later found 10
be living at the White House cafe, in
Canal street.
The police learned that. In Brooklyn
schrank was thought to have been
translator Of foreign languages for New
York German neWspaper