The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1912-10-18
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The Advertiser) The special train
bearing Col Theodore Roosevelt, who
was shot in Milwaukee last night. ar
rived here at three-thirty this morning.
The train was sidetracked, the colonel
sleeping until six O'Clock when he was
awakened and taken to the Mercy Hos
pital.
He reached there at six-ffteen
o'clock, accompanied by his cousin,
Philip Roosevelt, Secretary McGrath
and several physicians.
Colonel Roosevelt was taken into the
operating room at seven.thirty o clock,
where he was examined by Drs. John
r. Murphy and A. j. Ochsner. Later
Doctor Murphy issued the following
statement:
Locate Course of Bullet.
"We have located the exact course
of the bullet, and have definitely de-
termined that it did not touch vital
spot. Colonel Roosevelt's life is not
in any danger. -
The colonel submitted to two X-ray
examinations. AS the physicians, work
ed, the colonel laughed and joked.
"Carrying that speech IN your
pocket" Doctor Ochsner remarked,
twas the luckiest thing you ever did. -
Colonel Roosevelt laughed.
"That speech would stop more than
a bullet" answered the colonel; sit
was great speech.
"That bullet, - broke in Doctor Muir
ply, "came very nearly getting you.
"Not on your life responded Col
onel Roosevelt. "Not a little bullet
like that; it takes bigger caliber lead
than that to get me. 1t would take a
Howitzer to kill Bull Moose, didn t
you know thati"
The colonel insisted he was feeling
fine, saying:
az will be out in twenty-four hours
campaigning again, if they will let me
have my way. / feel great and could
deliver speech right now, if the doc
tors would let me get up
Bulletins by Physicians.
Physicians attending on Colonel
Theodore Roosevelt issued the follow
ing statement of his condition in the
Mercy Hospital at 1880 O. clock today:
"There is deep bullet wound in
Colonel Roosevelt's s chest wall, but the
bullet struck no Vita organ in transit.
bullets point of entry was one inch
to the right and one inch below the
level of the right nipple. The bullet
ranged upward and inwardiy for four
inches into the chest wall. There is
no evidence that it penetrated the lung.
"Colonel Roosevelt's pulse at this
hour is 90 2-l0; his respiration, 20.
No operation to remove the bullet is
intended at the present time, Colonel
Roosevelt's condition is hopeful, but
the wound Is so important rs to de-
mand absolute rest for number of
days.
(Signed) "JOHN B. MURPHY,
"ARTHUR BENEN,
ar. G. SAYLE,
"SCURRY TERRELL,
Attending physicians. "
This afternoon the physicians issued
statement that Colonel Roosevelt IS
temperature was 9s.s, his pulse 90 and
his respiration normal. The bulletin
said
"Absolute quiet is what the patient
needs. His injury is serious and not
mere flesh wound"
Was Narrow Escape.
CHICAGO, October l5.-CBv Asso
ciated Press Cabe)-The Xray test
made on Colonel Roosevelt today show
that he had a miraculous escape from
death, The passage Of the bullet ha
been clearly defined as following
course in the body just above the liver
and less than an inch below the lowe
line Of the lungs. If the bullet ha,
penetrated either the liver or lungs i
ID.