The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-15
AssAssIN's STORY.
Shooting of Roosevelt Result of a De-
liberate Plan.

liberate Plan.
Milwaukee. Oct. 15.-The shooting OF
Col Roosevelt was the result of a care
fully laid plan by Schrank, which was
often frustrated, but in which he final
Iy succeeded, according to his story.
According to his story. he formerly
ran a saloon at $40 East Tenth street,
between Avenues B and c. New York
city. He was born in Erding, Bavaria,
two hours out of Munich, the capital.
He is 36 years old and came to this
country with his parents when he was
years old. He mad been engaged in
the saloon business nearly all his life
until he decided that it was his duty
to kill Col. Roosevelt.
He said he had been personally ac-
quainted with Roosevelt since the for
mer president was police commissioner
Of New York in 1895.
He said he was first attracted to him
a political parsonage during the con-
vention in Chicago. Then, he said, he
began to think seriously of him as a
menace to his country when he cried
thief at that convention He looked
upon his plan to start a third party as
dangerous to the country, he said. He
said that his knowledge of history,
gained through much reading, cOnvinc-
ed him that Roosevelt vas engaged
in a dangerous undertaking. He de-
clared he was convinced that if he
was defeated at the fall election he
would again cry thief and that his
action would plunge the country into
a bloody civil war.
He said he deemed it his duty, after
much consideration of the situat ation, to
put him out of the way. He was Hv-
ing at his home address at that time
he said, but soon after he had a dream
in which former President Mckinley
appeared to him. He was told by Nc
iV71o in, 1rpa not nnf
Czolgosz who murdered him, but
Roosevelt. He said Mckinley in this
dream told him that the blood was on
Roosevelt's hands and that Roosevelt
had killed him so that he might be-
come president.
Schrank said ne was a person more
deeply impressed by what he read in
the newspapers than others, and that
after having this dream he was more
convinced than ever that he should
free the country from the menace of
Roosevelt's ambition.
His First Step.
On September 21 he removed to the
White hotel at 156 Canal street, near
the Bowery. He did this as his first
step in plan to kill Roosevelt. He
went soon afterward to a gun store on
Broadway and purchased a revolver.
He then purchased a ticket to
Charleston, S. c.. and went to that city
catch the Roosevelt party in New Or
leans. he said, but found that this was
impossible. He accordingly went to
Charleston, and upon his arrival there
had $500 left. He left a bag at the
Moseley House in that city, which
contained besides the box in which
the revolver he had purchased had
been packed "a deed to property at
Eighty-frst street in New York worth
$4,000, and his naturalization papers.
The bag is there now.
Not being able tc carry out mis- plan
in Charleston he proceeded to Atlanta,
Ga, then to Chattanooga, Tenn, and
from there to Evansville and Indian
apolis, Ind. and to Chicago In each
one of these cities he tried to shoot
Roosevelt, but was unable to waylay
him. He decided to shoot him as ne
arrived in Chicago and waited for him
at the Chicago & Northwestern sta
tion, but the intended victim did not
arrive there He then decided to do
the shooting at the Coliseum, but in