The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-10-15
WOULD BE ASSASSIN
Habitues of Bowery Saloon Schrank FreQuented Considered Him Harmless. Inoffensive Char
 acter.

New York, Oct. 15-Habitues of the Bowery rsca lied. today, John schrank, last night, as a harmless, inoffensive
 character A German, with notable accent, yellow hair and reddish brown beard. he lived at the White Hotel, just a few feet off the Bowery on Canal street, for a long time. Only one man penetrated the air of exciu- himself. That was Jack Walker bar tender in the hotel, who said today that he and Schrank often discussed general affairs over a glass of beer.
 According to Walker, Schrank ap- parent1y had few friends and abso- lutely no intimates. He was always never turned to himself. He was heard to say that he considered Roose- welt a menace to the country although
 there was never anything in his con- versation that led those in contact with him to believe that he held real animosity toward the progressive
 presidential candidate.
 Although he said nothing about his affairs to anyone, the impression among the few who came in contact
 with him was that he was engaged as
 pose of development projects to work fngmen. About month and "a half ago he asked Walker if he could get him a, job as either a waiter or bar tender as his resources were running low and he must work if he would eat.
 6VeryDOQy at the hOL01 thought he was slightly crazy though no one there, today, could give any particular rsa-
 son for their belief, other than a gen.
 era! feeling based on the manner in l which Schrank held aloof.
 Gus Jost, proprietor of the hotel,
 said that Schrank always paid his
 bills promptly and that when he left the hotel about the middle of Sep- | tember, he did not say where he was
 going or what his forwarding address would be.
  welt caused consternation among his followers, last night. Today, however, there was general air of hopeful ness about headquarterS in the Man haitian hotel and the party leaders are in constant touch with the Mercy hos- pital in Chicago George w. Perkins, who was alone in headquarters when the word came here prevented Mrs. Roosevelt being shocked when an op- orator dashed in gasping that Col Roosevelt had been shot,
 Get back and confirm that,'' said Perkins, showing the operator into a 1 small room where the private wire to Chicago is located.
 Perkins then sent word to the Ca l sino theatre, where he knew Mrs. Roosevelt was attending the perform ance, ordering that noe one was to de- He then found J. West Roosevelt and l O. K Davis. Immediately Perkins sent young Oliver over to the theatre I to tell Mrs. Roosevelt that her hus- band had been shot but that he was only slightly wounded and that he had | been able to continue his speech. 1 Mrs. Roosevelt at first decided that she would remain through the per formanee but she finally became SC 1 nervous that she went to the head quarters and remained there until she l received word that her husband was l being taken to Chicago. Then she went to the home of J. West Roosevelt l where she spent the night. Every ef-
 fort was made to keep callers away l from there.
 Senator Dixon. the pcoloners cam pdlSI HidHdSefs IeofSe V" HefklnS anC 1 others issued statements expressing l their horrors Of the shooting. Dixon
 was particularly bitter in his decIara- 1 ton that the newspape criticism ot 1 the colonel was responsible for the | shooting.