The Springdale news., 1912-10-18

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 schranR shifted in his chair and tapped the floor with the blunt toe If well worn shoe.
 Haven't 1 told everybody that Roosevelt was too ambitious, he snorted They're all trying 10 make lie out crazy. as II did Lit because I was out Of my mind. That's not so. If Roosevelt hadn't been eager to get that third term he'd be alive now.
 Do yeu think he is dead2' Ras asked
 II don't know anything about 1t. 2, snapped Schrank. Whats more ldon't care hang. They haven't told me if 1 killed him. came here to do 1t and if I didn't then, any | how, did all l could. If hes alive made bad job of it" Schrank spoke clearly and with a tone of anger He wanted to be let alone In silence the stunted lchunky, phlegmatic prisoner waited for the next question, lingering his hat the while.
 Why did you wait so long after making up your mind q month ago to kill the colonel before firing the shot?' asked the writer.
 He was too foxy for He" snarl- 1 ed SchfaHk Hes the sliekest man I ever saw, makes people tbink he's looming out of one door and pops !out of another. INw could l get him when he fooled me that way =
 T almost did get him at Chat Itanooga, though Schrank went on for the first tine betraying real Interest in the interview. Il had my revolver tucked in my vest pogk- ct and stood at the automobile as L. I lday night. Everything was all right for a shot but was afraid I'd hit Isome 1ody else. They were all tcrowding SO
 What difference did it make to you if you killed anyone else, if you accomplished your idea of shooting the colonel?"
 That's damned fool question: returned Schrank scornfully No body had done me harm but Roose- welt He'd harmed the whole eoun- Eiry by being third termer and l mad to get rid Of him. Nobody else was running for third term,.was he2"
 sehrauk responded to the quest ions with alaerity. He listened kecni3 and gave no evidence of the #abtuse= mentality that the police have Itttribated 10 Linn His command of language was easy and he did not express himself In the hesiEating broken phTaees that the police inaui- sition tie night of the shooting Heyictea Tn faet Sehrank impress es oHe with being entirely in eon- trol of his mental faculties. Not a sign Of nervousness Is apparent. When Sehrank speaks Of 1t being his stern obligation to shoot Roose- ttrtt la of man who may allow that he has done something out of the ordinary but that circ umstances extenuate the act + reminds one of the excuse a. boy who, when caught stealing iamy remonstrates, Well. I'm hungry
 The dumpy squat-faced prisoner evineed show of temper ony on during tae interview That was when he vas asked if he had come 70 Milwaukee to murder the colonel be apse there is no capital punishment in Wisconsin
 YaH thought. didn't you. that you could escape the electric chair if you killed him here 2a was put to him.
 hfanks palhd face lit up with q flush of resentment for mo- ment IS he flashed
 ''l don't care damn about the electric chair If they bring one in here now I'll sit in it and they can go as far as they like"
 John, you're getting excited, protested the police chief. sooth ingly.
 No. I'm not :" insisted Schrank as he slapped his hat on his knees. But they can't accuse me of heinz a coward No matter if they don't like what did, Pm not afraid.
 Sehrank was caught in lie to- day. When asked on Monday night where he got the $350 with which ] he started out on his murderous CT rand on September II, he blandly told the police that he raised it from property he owned in New ] York. Today Chief Janseen got word that Schrank borrowed it from Herman Larunger of Brooklyn. When this discrepancy was put up i to Sehrank by the writer. the pris- oner biinked his eyes aud mutter- ed:
 Now. they're trying to make plot of t. l did 1t all myself"
 Schrank s appetite since he has been in the county jail has been abnormal He eats everything they bring him and calls for more He i puts in his time when not eating ! with scrihbling off memoranda and boring over maeazines
 They won't let him read newsna- pers and that makes him angry He yearns To see how the papers hand l led the shooting of the colonel Not once since he fired tfe shot has he inquired if the bullet was fatal He tried his best" as he says. and has to be content with the effort.
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 Wilson's Dates Cancelled
 New York, Oct. 16-The re- port that Woodrow Wilson had can- Iceled all further dates because of the assault on Roosevelt was con- firmed today by statement from the Democratic headduarters Nc Adoo said that the dates for this week could not be cancelled but af-