Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-10-15


speech which he delivered last night
The bullet struck the manuscript,
which retarded its force as it passed
. through into the flesh.
The would-be assassin was prevent
ed from firing a second shot by Albert
H. Martin. one of Colonel Roosevelt's
two secretaries. Colonel Roosevelt
had just stepped into an automobile
when the assassin pushed his way
through the crowd in the street and
fired. Martin, who was standing in
the car with the colonel, leaped onto
the mans shoulders and bore him to
/ the ground.
Captain A. o. Girard of Milwaukee,
who was on the front seat, jumped
almost at the same time. and in an
instant the man was overpowered
and disarmed.
CRIES OF LYNCH HIM"
I A wild cry of Lynch him." went
/ up from the crowd. Colonel Roosevelt
/ spoke TO the people and tod them
TO spare his assailant The man was
/ taken into the hotel and held there
until he was removed to the police
station.
When the patrol wagon came for
Schrank he was all but Iynched by
the excited crowd, and il was only by
the desperate use of the clubs of four
/ stalwart police officers and the re-
volvers of four of the police depart
ment detectives that the supposed
maniac was rescued from the crowd
and hurried to police headquarters.
crowd of 500 men ran after the
police auto which rescued the coloneps
assailant to police headquarters, but
z reserves quickly clubbed the mob
from the vicinity of the police sta
tion. Schrank was taken to the pri-
vate quarters of Chief of Police Jan
ssen who was summoned at once to
put the man through a grilling cross
examination.
FOLLOWED OVER COUNTRY.
A long proclamation of the people
found in Schrank's pockets declared
that the attack was made by prear-
rangemeHt and that the assassin
meant to end his own life after dis
posing of the colonel Scraps of he
tel memoranda dates and the like on
the back of an envelope showed that
the man had apparently been follow
ing the colonel all about the country,
waiting for a favorable time to at
tack the progressive leader.
The colonel felt no pain at the time
the shot was fired and was not aware
he was shot until he was on the way
to the Auditorium. His attention was
then called to a hole in his overcoat
; and he found that his shirt was soak
ed with blood. He insisted that he
was not hurt badly
In spite of the entreaties of phvsi-
clans Colonel Roosevelt insisted upon
delivering his address. He said: Il
3, will make this speech or die, one or
the other"
The wOuld-be assassin is five feet
five inches in height, weighs l7O
pounds. is of light complexion and
bald. He confessed to the police thai
he fired the shot, and made the re.
, mark:
, Any man looking for a third term
, ought to be shot"
, TELLS OF &cKINLEY's GHOST.
A written proclamation found on
the clothing of the man who did The
, shooting reads:
, sept. Is, 1912; Sept. Is. 1901. l: 80
/ a. m. In a dream l saw President
Mckinley sit up in a monks attire
in whom l recognized Theodore
Roosevelt. The dead president said
, This is my murderer, avenge my
death
Sept u, 1912, 1:SO a. m.-While
) writing a poem, some one tapped me
on the shoulder and said: Let moi
r. a murderer take the presidential chair
Ayenge my death
! 4 could plainly see Mr. Mckinley
features
= Before the Almighty God. swear
this above writing is nothing but the
truth
CRAZED BIZ THIRD TERN.
Another note found in the mans
:. pocket reads:
so long as Japan could rise to the
greatest power OF the world despi,e
, Der surviving a tradItion more thar
; 1900 years old. as General Nogi 81
nobly demonstrated, it is the duty o.
the United States OF America 20 I'D
hold the third-term tradition. Let
r. every third-termer be regarded as