The Kenna record. (Kenna, Roosevelt County, N.M.) 190?-1924, 1912-10-18

elevated TO the presidency OF the Unlt
ed States by an assassin's bullet which
struck down President Mckinley was
almost removed from the worlds ac-
tive history last night at Milwaukee
by an assassin's bullet.
He was shot full in the breast by
John Schrenk, a laundryman from
New York, who is said to be Social
ist Although bleeding from the
wound, the Colonel waved physicians
aside, and insisted upon completing
his evenings program of speaking al
the Auditorium. He was unable, how
ever, to make his prepared speech,
and finally weakened by loss of blood,
submitted to surgeons who rushed him
to an emergency hospital.
An X-Ray examination disclosed that
the bullet had penetrated the right
breast and had torn through the alb
dominal wall. The surgeons did not
consider It serious. Colonel Roose-
welt was later taken to a special train
which run slowly to reach Chicago
by daylight.
The shooting occurred in front OF
the fitzpatrick Hotel just as Colonel
Roosevelt had stepped into an automo-
bile which was TO take him to the
Auditorium. He was standing lifting
his hat in salutation to the throng in
the street and on the sidewalks, when
the assassin quickly pushed through
the crowd and fired.
Wrapped in his heavy military coat,
and with spectacle case, and heavy
manuscript of his speech in his peck
ct, the ex-president once more was
favored by fate. The heavy coat. the
spectacle case and the many pages Of
manuscript served as an armor which
absorbed the death speed from the
bullet.
Colonel Roosevelt Immediately in
sisted that he was not seriously hurt,
although his friends observed that
hole was torn through the coat, and
that the Colonels hand was blood
stained as he withdrew it from under
the coat
With indominable will he insisted
that his audience at the Auditorium
I be not disappointed. "Pn make this
SpeSCu VI ulS tiy ih6t hC Sdlu
The would-be assassin was immedi-
ately bounced upon. One of his cap
tors was Henry Cochems, manager for
La Toilette, and famous as a college
athlete.
After the assassin had been turned
over to the police a mob sought to
do him violence. Roosevelt himself
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Although it was asserted that the
would-be assassin is a Socialist, it is
more definitely ascertained that he is
a lunatic who had deliberately planned
the attack. Letters found on him
showed that he had studied the
Colonels dates and places for making
speeches, and also that he had an in
sane idea of murder.
Writings taken from him related his
hallucinations. He tells of the ghost
of Mckinley visiting him, and calls
upon God as his witness that McKin-
ley asked him to murder his success
sor. Mingled with such murderous
spiritualistic ideas the assassin writes
in a religious frenzy and concludes
with a suggestion of Germany's ma.
tional HYMN.
No one in the party, including the
Colonel himself, entertained the slight
est notion that the Coolnel had been
shot. He felt no shock or pain at
the time and it was assumed that
the bullet went wild. AS soon as
Colonel Roosevelt had assured himself
that the would-be assassin was safe
in the hands of the police he gave or
ders to drive on to the Auditorium.
They had driven nearly 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
to the ColonePs breast.
Look, Colonel" he said, there is
q 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 it.
When he withdrew it, hts fingers were
stained with blood. Colonel Roosevelt
was not at all dlsmayed by his dis
coysFY