The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1912-10-19
EX-PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT SHOT
Wound at First Thought Trivial Is Now Considered to Be
Of Serious Nature-Crank, Who Had Traied Roose-
welt for Many Days, Fires Upon Him in Milwaukee
As He Leaves Hotel in an Auto-Letters Show
Assailant Is Evidently Insane

/ it and the car was driven to the Audi
torium.
As soon as they reached the building,
Colonel Roosevelt was taken into q dress
ing room and his outer garments were
removed. DIR. Terrell. with the help Of
DIR. John Stratson Of Milwaukee. and
DR.. s. s. Sorrenson of Racine, Wis,
who were in the audience and came 20
the dressing room on q call from the
platform, made Q superficial examina-
ton Of the wound. They agreed that
il was impossible TO hazard . guess a. to
the extent Of the Colonel's injuries and
that he should by all NEAR go at once
to q hospital
81 will deliver this speech or die. one
or the other" was Colonel Roosevelt's
reply.
Despite the protests of his physicians.
the Colonel strobe out Of the dressing
room and TO the stage. Several thous-
and persons, packed into the big build
ing, cheered loudly as he entered. and
without q word to indicate what had
happened. went to his seat. For several
minutes the crowd. no man Of whom
suspected that the Colonel bore q bullet
in his body, kept mp its cheering.
After the speech Roosevelt was rushed
to his automobile and flashed through
the streets to the emergency hospital.
The operating room had been placed
in readiness to receive Colonel Roose-
welt, and six of the leading surgeons Of
Milwaukee were awaiting his arrival.
Colonel Roosevels was undressed and
placed upon the operating table, al.
though he insisted that he was not badly
hurt and that the doctors were taking
, it too seriously.
{ Wound Examined
An examination OF the wound showed
, that it had been made by q bullet OF
large size. 1t entered the fleshy part Of
the right breast. half way between the
collar bone and the lower rib. The ply
sicians found hat they knew 10 more
after their examination than before as
to the location of the bullet, and il was
decided to send for an X-ray machine to
determine to what depth the missile had
penetrated.
While he was waiting for tie X-ray
9 machine. Colonel Roosevelt sat up on
q the operating table and talked politics
and joked with the ply sicians.
d Assassin Cipes Name
In the meantime, hidden away in the
! inner room Of the police station Colonel
Roossvelt's assailant was being subjected
to a rigid examination. He refused
s%tubbornly to give al account Of him.
self. and would say nothing except that
! 81 will tell you Tomorrow"
After a long siege, however, the po-
lice forced from him the statement that
he was John Schrank. of $40 East Tenth
street. New York.
Clippings found in the man pockets
showed that he had studied Colonel
Roosevelt 3 itinerary carefully. with the
evident intention of selecting the place
at which he might accomplish what he
had in mind.
Il was said at the Fitzpatrick hotel,
while Colonel Roosevelt was at dinner,
q short dark man of about 40 years made
four attempts to gain admission to the
dining room, being turned away each
time. Those who saw him said that he
bore no resemblance to Schrank.
y From this circumstance. the report
y gained circulation that two men were
" engaged in the attempt to take Colone
l. Roosevelt's life. The police to-nighl
were unable to gain any evidence to beal
. out this theory.
is Martin Tells Story
Mr.. Martin, to whom Colonel Roose
N Welt perhaps owes his life. told the story
tonight of his adventure.
D.. 81 walked downstairs with the Oolone
& and out to the car" he said. ''and hat
]. taken my seat before anything happen
ie ed. As Colonel Roosevelt was standing
" in the car waving his hat to the crowd
r. the fash of metal caught my eye. / die
not stop to think what ! was doing, anC
at before I really knew it, jumped over tn,
side Of the car and had my arm around
O. the neck OF a man I had hardly seen
T. Everything seemed to happen at once
There was a fash, a sound of a shot
and I was on the ground with the man
q. l threw one arm about his neck and helt