The Caldwell watchman. (Columbia, La.) 1885-1946, 1912-10-18
Crazed Man Fires at Colonel
FROM Crowd. I.ynehing
Is Threatened.
MANUSCRIPT STOPS BULLET
Progressive Candidate Fills Speaking
Date Before Going to Hospital
for Examination.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.

""ohoS' Wi. lHeouOIS hOOSe-
welt was shot in the breast by an as
sassln as he entered an automobile
N front of the Hotel Fitzpatrick to
start for an auditorium where he was
TO speak. He insisted on going to the
hall, there quoted the crowd that
heard that he had been shot, spoke
from 500 until 9:45 O'Clock. though
apparently weak, and then was taken
to an emergency hospital.
Six physicians examined Colonel
Roosevelt's wounds. They found it
impossible to determine the depth to
which the bullet had penetrated and
1t was decided to take al: X.ray photo.
graph.
The X-ray examination of Colonel
Roosevelt's wound showed that the
bullet lodged in the chest wall and
did not penetrate the lung. The
wound Is not considered serious.
The positive statement that Colonel
Roosevelt was not Infused seriously
was made by DR.. Frederick A. STRAIT
ton OF Milwaukee, one of the physi-
clans who examined the colonel. DR..
Stratton said that there was no cause
Tor alarm as to the colonel's condition.
The wound was a superficial one"
said DR.. Stratton. THE bullet is i'm
bedded in the muscular tissues. All
that we did at the hospital was to nut
on an antiseptics dresstns
g ou may say eo.0nef " 'fsscsesaiS "a ~ !,
not a dangerous condition. If the
bullet had reached his lungs it would
have been evident and he would have
had coughing spells"
After questioning the assassin gave
his name as John Schsank, of $40
East Tenth street, New York. From
notes found in the prisoners clothes It
Is evident he is demented on the sub
ject of Colonel Roosevelt running for
q third term.
Colonel Roosevelt's life probably
was saved by manuscript of the
speech which he delivered. The bull.
let struck the manuscript, which re.
tarded its force as it passed through
into the flesh. His assailant was pre-
vented from firing a second shot by
Albert H. Martin. one Of Colonel
Roosevelt's two secretaries.
Colonel Roosevelt had just stepped
into an automobile, when the would.
be- assassin pushed his way through
the crowd in the street and fired. Mar
tin, who was standing in the car with
the colonel, leaped onto the mans
shoulders and bore him TO the ground.
Capt. A. o. Girard Of Milwaukee,
who was on the front seat, jumped al
most at the same time and in an in
slant the man was oveEpowered and
disarmed. !
A wild cry of Lynch him" went up.
Colonel Roosevelt spoke to the PEG.
pie and told them to spare the man,
who then was taken into the hotel and
held there until he was removed to
the police station.
In spite of the entrsaties of ply.
sicians. Colonel Roosevelt insisted
upon delivering his address,
More Evidence Against Becker.
New York. Bald Jack" Ro3e's
story of how former Police Lieutenant
Becker plotted the murder Of Herman
Rosenthal, was corroborated on the
witness stand by "Brtdgie" Weber
and Harry vallon, self-confessed &C.
completes in the crime. Weber went
further. He swore Becker told him
that on the night of the murder, he
would have killed Rosenthal himself It
he had seen him. The former lieuten.
ant declared, Bridge" said, he had
slowed down his automobile while
passing the Hotel Cadillac on Broad
wav In case Rosenthal might be lott