The Springdale news., 1912-10-18
ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION
 OF Ex-PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT

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 No one in the party, including Roosevelt himself. entertained the slightest notion that he, the colon el, had been shot. He felt 10 shock or pain at the time and il was as sumed that the bullet went wild. Ks soon as the colonel assured him self the assassin was in the hands of the police, he gave orders to drive on to the auditorium.
 They had driven hardly one of the four blocks when John MeGrath, another of the eolonels s secretaries, uttered q sharp exclamation and pointed 10 the colonel's breast
 Look, colonel, he said there ] is a hole in your oyereoat''
 Colonel Roosevelt looked down. saw the hole; then unbuttoned the big brown army coat which he was wearing and thrust his hand be heath it. When he withdrew his fingers were stained with blood
 It looks as though l have been hit he said, but don't think 1t is anything serious.
 Dr Scurry Terrell. of Dallas, Tex as. Colonel Roosevelts physician, who had entered the automobile just before 1t started off, insisted that the colonel return 10 the hotel. He paid no attention to the suggestions. 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 out CT garments removed Dr Terrel made superficial examination and said it was impossible 10 hazard a guess as to the extent Of the col onels injuries
 New York. Oct f4.- John Schrank formerly lived at the ad= dress given in ta. Milwaukee dis patch He is laundryman. who Jeff here about month ago He has a wife and child here.
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 Taken to Chicago
 A At the conclusion of his speech in Milwaukee Col Roosevelt left on a special train for Chicago and was taken to hospital where he is be. ing treated The wound is not con. sidered serious unless blood poison or other complications arise, but th. physicians have ordered absolute quiet, and the probabilities are Mr Roosevelt will make no more speech es during t1< present campaign. Sen ator Beveridge of Indiana filled his speaking date at Louisville, Ky, and will probably lead in the Pro gressiYe campaign from now till the close. Mrs Roosevelt was in New York at the time of the shooting, but hastened to Chicago and is now With her husband. The lat est report is that Col Roosevelt will be taken 10 his home al Oyster Bay Saturday unless he takes turn Tor the worse.
 Physicians made N-ray phot0sraph i Tuesday afternoon in search of the bullet, and fl Was finally located against the fourth rib on the right side. entered the body two inch es below the right nipple and rang ed upward and inward for dis tanee of four inches and lodged two inches inward Ky only the small fraction of an inch did 1t miss the liver and pleural cavity.
 The length of the wound and the neee sitY of making deep ineision l to bring forth the bullet determined the doctors to allow ii to remain for the present and probably permanent ly. The former presidents $ chest muscles did much to hold back the missile whose velocity had been i'm peded by the objects it ell ountered on it's waF
 These were:
 F'irst-8 thick oYercoat
 Second A rusty black breadelotb i froek coat, the one the colonel has worn through this and apparently through many other campaigns
 Third One hundred thieknesses 1 of heavy typewriter paper, contain ling his speech for the night in Milwaukee, fifty pages, folded doub= i Ile
 Fourth-A gunmetal spectacle case, containing the big tortoise 1 shell speetacles the colonel uses i for reading glasses. The bullet graz ed one of the lenses but by some miracle left it intact
 Ffth-A black vest, lined with silk.
 Six A Madras shirt.
 Seventh A wooden undershirt
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 Schrank Not sorry
 Milwaukee, Wis, Oct 1 6.- With q shuffling gait John Flammang