Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1912-10-17
Would Be Assassin Shoots
the Former President at
Milwaukee.
SLIGHT WOUND INFLICTED
Colonel Delivers His Scheduled Speech
and Later Goes to Chicago to
Have Bullet Removed.

Milwaukee, Oct. 15.-Colonel Theo
dore Roosevelt was shot and Slightly
wounded in the chest as he was leav
ing the fitzpatrick hotel for the Aud:
forum to make a speech. The wound
was superficial and the colonel pro
ceeded to the hall and delivered his
speech after he had seer the assassin
arrested and taken to the police sta
ton.
A manuscript in the colonel's pocket
stayed the force of the bullet, and pre-
vented more serious injury.
Henry F. Cochems seized the assis
sin and held him until policemen came
up. \ mob surged around the man,
who apparently is a radical on the sub
ject OF Rocsevelt's running for anoth.
er term as president, but the police
succeadcd in landing him safely III
the Central station.
The assassin, who is small of stat
ure, admitted firing the shot, and said
that amy man looking for a third
term ought to be shot"
The prisoner told the police after
an hours examination that he was
John Schrank of $40 East Tenth
street, New York.
In notes found in the mans pockets
at the police station were statements
that he had been visited in a dream by
the spirit of William Mckinley, who
had said, indicating Colonel Roose
welt, This is my murderer, avenge
my DEATH"
Surgeons Use x-Ray.
The operating DON at Emergency
hospital, where Roosevelt was taken
after his speech at the Auditorium,
had been placed in readiness to re.
ceive Colonel Roosevelt, and six OF
the leading surgeons of Milwaukee
were awaiting his arrival. He was
undressed and placed upon the oper
ating table, although he insisted that
he was not badly hurt and that the
doctors were taking it too seriously
An examination of the wound
showed that it had been made by a
bullet Of large size. 1t entered the
feshy part of the right breast, half
way between the collarbone and lower
rib.
The physicians found that they
knew no more after their examination
fhon hnfNr0 oC $0 thu 1~1o%;&o - IL.
bullet, and it was decided to send for
a n X-ray machine to determine to
what depth the missile had pen
trated.
While he was waiting for the X-ray
machine Colonel Roosevelt sat up on
the operating table and talked politics
and joked with the physicians.
Colonel Roosevelt left the hospital
walking unassisted, and was said to
be resting easily in his private car
Mayfiower when he left for Chicago,
BIames the Newspapers.
Colonel Roosevelt opened his ad.
dress by referring to the shooting, as.
sorting that his assailant was a cow.
ard. Continuing, he said:
ut is a very natural thing that
weak and vicious minds should be in.
famed to acts of violence by the kind
Of foul mendacity and abuse that have
been heaped upon me for the last
three months by the papers in the
interests not only of Mr.. Debs, but of
Mr.. Wilson and Mr.. Taft. Friends, ]
will disown and repudiate any man of
my party who attacks with such vile,
foul SANDER and abuse any opponents
OF any other party. Now l wish to
say seriously to the speakers and to
the newspapers representing the Re
publican and Democratic and Social
list parties that they cannot, month in
and month out, year in and veal
out, make the kind of ~slanderous, bit
ter and malevolent assaults that they
have made and not expect that brutal
and violent characters, especially
when the brutality is accompanied by
a not too strong mind, they cannot ex
pect that such natures will be unaf
fected by It,"