Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1912-10-17
CROWD AT AUDITORIUM
SEES BLOOD ON VEST
AcsaiIant, Who Is Evidently Graz,
Had Been Following Progressive
Leader for Several Weeks
Almost Lynched on
Spot by Angry
Mob.

Milwaukee, Wis, Oct 15.-Colonel
Theodore Roosevelt was shot and
slightly wounded as he was leaving
his hotel for the Auditorium, where
ne was to deliver his speech of the
evening
His assaiiant, who later issued
proclamation saying that any man
who wanted to be president for
third term should be shot, was all but
lynched by a mob of 10000 persons
who had gathered about the hotel to
see Colonel Roosevelt.
Assalant Evidently Insane.
The assailant is evidently a maniac,
for his proclamation, as he termed it.
was incoherent in places. The man
gave evidence by a memorandum OF
the Roosevelt schedule that he had
been following Colonel Roosevelt for
a week, the first item on the SEIZED
ule being a Carolina date on Sept. 81.
The colonel was at first supposed
to have escaped uninjured, for after
a momentary start he smiled but,
putting his hand under his coat for
minute, was seen to vince for an in
slant, and then he moved forward,
stepped into the automobile, spoke
| word to his associates and in an In
slant the automobile was whirling
away toward the Auditorium. The
fact that he had left for the Auditor
ium gave every reason to believe that
| he had been unhurt When he rose
| to speak at the Auditorium, however,
the colonel said:
Wounded Just over Heart.
can attempt has just been made to
kill me. l am carrying the bullet in
my body now, and SO will have to
cut my speech short" He repeated
! this statement repeatedly during the
meeting.
| That Colonel Roosevelt was actual
1 ly shot was seen by the crowd in the
| Auditorium when his white vest was
seen to be streaked with blood, which
was oozing from the wound just over
his heart
Shooting in Front Of Hotel.
| The scene of the shooting was dis
rectly in front of the Hotel Gilpat'
| rick, where 10000 people had gath
! cred previous to a speech on the is
sues of his campaign for the presi-
dency.
AS the crowd cheered, Henry
| Cochems, chairman of the speakers
| bureau of the Progressive party, had
l 6piSbod hjc iOfrOduct0rv Cnoonn@ am
had presented Colonel Roosevelt to
the crowd.
| Out of the clamor of cheering that
| greeted the colonel came the loud re-
| port of a shot. The flash Of gunpow-
| der showed where the assassin was,
directly in front of the speakers plat
| form.
| Cochems Lands on Assassin.
| At the instant of the flash Chairman
Cochems leaped from the platform d.
rectly at the spot it indicated. He
| landed with his fus weight on the
shoulders of the assassin and cata-
| pulled him ten feet backward. In
an instant Cochems had disarmed the
man.
| Groans and cries came from the
threats Of the throng. A scene Of
| turmoil never before witnessed in
! Milwaukee took place. The din was
S.i:eted only wnen II was learned rnat
| the colonePs injury was not serious.
Within five minutes after the
shooting, which caused a great hub
| bub, Roosevelt men were predicting
that the attempt upon his life would
result in an uncomfortable wave of
| public sentiment on his behalf that
! would send him to victory.
Rambling Talk of Assassin.
The man who shot him is an under
sized German, evidently mentally un-
balanced In a rambling, innocuous
statement he said he had tried to do
| bis duty--that he considered it the
duty of every citizen to kill a third
term aspirant, as that course would
soon develop a monarchy.
He claims to have spirit message
from Former President Mckinley Gi-
recting him to kill Roosevelt, who
rose to power upon the assassination
of Mckinley. In his effects were
found many infiammatory circulars,
! excerpts from anarchist and socialist
| papers. etc.