The Prescott daily news., 1912-10-18
COL. ROOSEVELT
IS DOING NICELY
BELIEF is EXPRESSED HE WILL
PASS CRISIS WITHOUT BLOOD
POISONING.
IN CHICAGO UNTIL MONDAY
Mrs. Roosevelt, Bossing Both Sur.
geons and Husband, Insists Pa
tient Shall Remain in Hos
pital Until After Sunday.


pital Until After Sunday.
Chicago, Oct. 1S.-Col Roosevelt's
tin on their patients condition after
thorough examination. The bulletin
reads:
pulse, 72; temperature. 9S.3; respi-
ration, Is all night. Wound dressed.
Looks well. Some oozing Examina-
ton of the lungs by DR.. Alexander
Lambert shows lungs in good condi-
ton. General condition splendid. The
case is progressing and unless some
complication occurs the bullet will not
be removed at present"
While the physicians would not say
the colonel was out of danger, they
did say that no sign of blood poison
ing had been found, and they were
hopeful that their patient would pass
the crisis Friday without such de-
velopment
Colonel IN High Spirits.
The colonel was in the highest spir-
its and laughed and joked with his
nurses, physicians and Mrs. Roosevelt,
who passed almost the entire morn
ing with her husband
I'm bully, fine; had good sleep
and feel that / could start for Oyster
Bay today ii they would let me-" the
colonel remarked.
Mrs. Roosevelt and the physicians
promptly told Roosevelt that even if
the case progressed most favorably
there was no chance of him being
taken away from Chicago until after
Sunday.
! Mrs. Roosevelt was positive on this
point, and the doctors supported her.
Roosevelt acquicsced and said he
would stay until the doctors and his
wife thought it was perfectly safe for
him to move, though he wanted to get
back to Oyster Bay at the earliest
possible minute.
Mrs. Roosevelt Is Boss.
During the early hours no one was
admitted to the room except Mrs.
Roosevelt, the doctors and attendants.
One. of the attending physicians said
that Col. Roosevelt was restless dur
ing the night, but that was not an in
dication he had taken a turn for the
worse, although they would, OF course,
prefer to have him sleep soundly He
said that the broken sleep probably
was accounted for by the fact that the
fracture of the rib annoyed him when
he moved in sleep.
The colonel WAS advised to move as
little as possible, and every attempt
was made to keep visitors away from
him and prevent the usual athletic
demonstrations with which Roosevelt
accompanies his conversations.
AS the crisis of the case approaches
the physicians are keeping a strict
watch to determine if blood poisoning
or lockjaw develops.
DR.. ]. B. Murphy, chief surgeon at
Mercy hospital. said that Friday
would mark the turning point in the
coloners condition. Then it will be
known if the patient will be COM
pelled to fight one or both of the COM
pIications such wound always men
aces-blood poisoning and pneumonia
Bullet Embedded in Rib.
The first X-ray to give satisfactory
results shows that the bullet is partly
embedded in the fracture of the
fourth rib, abou. four inches from the
breast bone. The bullet is fattened
out of shape. II is crushed against
the upper edge cf the rib, and several
small splinters of bone project near
II. The picture also shows an un-
usual spread and arch to the injured
ribs. indicating the great size OF the
colonel's lungs and his extraordinary
chest development. The missile in
transit did not spread as such bullets
usually do, but made clean wound.
Superficially, the hole is about half
an inch in diameter and the skin Is
badly torn at the point OF entry.
Indifferent as to schrank.
The colonel continues to show the
utmost Indifference as to the motives
of Schrank, who sought his life.
His nanN might be Czolgosz or
anything else as far as | am con-
cerned," he said to one of his visitors.
"I never heard of him before and
know nothing about him."
To another caller Roosevelt ex.