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rose to help him. He mentioned them
to sit down.
Let me alone. I'm all right" he
said.
As soon as Colonel Roosevelt had
assured himself that the assassin was
(. safe in the hands of the police, he
gave orders to drive on to the Audi.
torium.
They had driven hardly one of the
four blocks from the hotel to the Au-
ditorium when John McGrath, another
of Colonel Roosevelt's secretaries, ut
tered a sharp exclamation and pointed
to the colonel's breast.
Look, colonel" he said. there is
a hole in your overcoat."
Colonel Roosevelt looked down, saw
the hole, then unbuttoned the big
brown army coat which he was wear
ing and thrust his hand beneath it.
When he withdrew it his fingers were
stained with blood.
Colonel Roosevelt was not at all dis
mayed by his discovery.
1T looks as though had been hit"
he said, ''but don't think it is any.
thing serious"
DR.. scurrey Terrell of Dallas, Texas.
who had entered the automobile just
before it started OF, insisted that the
colonel return to the hotel. He would
not hear of it, however, and the car
was driven to the Auditorium.
As soon as they reached the build
ing, Colonel Roosevelt was taken into
a dressing room and his outer gar
ments were removed.
DR.. Terrell with the help of Dr.
John Stratton of Milwaukee and DR..
s. s. Sorenson of Racine, Wis, who
were In the audience and came to the
dressing room on call from the plat
form, made superficial examination
of the wound. They agreed that it
was impossible to hazard a guess as
to the extent of the colonel's injuries
and that he should by all means go at
once to a hospital"
Il will deliver this speech or die"
said the colonel.
After the meeting closed 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 ar
rival. Colonel Roosevelt was undress-
ed and placed upon the operating table
although he insisted that he was not
hrr f
taking it too seriously.
An examination of the wound show
ed that it had been made by a bullet
of large size. );
1t entered the fleshy part of the
right breast, half way between the
collar bone and lower rib. The physi-
clans found that they knew no more
after their examination and, as to the
location Of the bullet, and it was de-
cided to send for an X-ray machine
to determine to what depth the mis-.
sic had penetrated
While he was waiting for the X-ray
machine, Colonel Roosevelt sat up on
the operating table and talked poll.
tics and joked with the physicians.
AssaiIant Talks Freely.
After long cross examination Colo.
mel Roosevelt's assailant, John
Schrenk. talked more freely.
The shooting was the result of
carefully laid plan by Schrank, which
was often frustrated, but in which he
finally succeeded, according to his
story.
The man talked freely after his first
stubborn refusal to give his name
when he was arrested by Sergeant
Mooney at the Gilpatrick hotel.
According to his story, he formerly
ran saloon at $40 E. 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 &c years old and came to this
country when he was nine years old
with his parents. He had been engag.
ed in the saloon business, as pro
prietor and as an employee of mem:
bers of his family nearly all his life.
until he decided that it was his duty
to kill Colonel Roosevelt.
Acquainted With Colonel.
He said he had been personally &C.
quainted with Roosevelt since the col
onel was police commissioner of New
York in 1895.
He said he deemed it his duty, after
much consideration Of the situation,
to put him out of the way. He was liv.
ing at his home address at that time
he said, but soon after he had dream
in which former President Mckinley
appeared to him. He was told by Nc
Kinley, in this dream that it was not
Czolgosz who murdered him but Roose:
welt. He said Mckinley. in his dream,
told him that the blood was on Roose.
velt's hands and that Roosevelt had
killed him so that he might become
president.
More Confident Tone.
New York. Oct. 15.-The panicky
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