The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-10-15


CHICAGO, Ill. Oct. 15.-With So
calibre bullet In his right breast, Col
onel Roosevelt, ex-president or the
United States, leader OF the progress
sive party and candidate for president
on the bull moose ticket, is in serl-
Gus condition at Mercy hospital, 2537
Prairie avenue. this city.
John Schrank, East Tentl- street,
4.ew York, who followed the colonel
all over the south and finally fired the
shot that nearly killed him, is in the
hands of the police at Milwaukee. The
authorities at Milwaukee spirited
their prisoner to the county jail 10
avoid the possibility of lynching.
Behind the shooting OF Roosevelt is
story that shows the iron nerve OIL
the former president, the nerve tnat
carried him through the Spanish
! American war and the grit and deter
mination that he displayed in his Ia
Imous lion hunts in the juneles of
Africa. He insisted on speaking ne
/ fore an audience at the Auditorium,
4 in Milwaukee, after the bullet had
Y lodged in his body.
I The colonel had hardly begun to
y saeak last nj ght when an elderly lady
1 in the crowd arose in her seat and
said Colonel Root eyelt, please go
back and let the doctors d4ess your
! wound"
With snap of his teeth. the
colonel replied: Dear madam, 1t is
: very nice of you, but am not hurt
tlIf YOU saw me on horseback, you
would think had a pretty strong seat
now
Phillip j Roosevelt, cousin of the
colonel, also interrupted him. stop,
begged the young man. i Will moi
. STOP fired back the colonel. az ne
; plunged into his attack on Wilson. La
!, Toilette and the platforms of the two
old parties.
! The bitter arraignment of his antag
onists continued for an hour ana
!, half but towards the end, as the
|, speaker grew weaker from loss o
blood, his tone changed and he inter
polated new phase into his partins
! sentence-an appeal to his hear
q ers to join with him "in kindness
!. and generosity and charity" to brin!
nearer the day when social and in
! dustrial Justice shall be achieved II
; this great land of ours.
>. Then having finished his speech
/. the colonel submitted to the er
treaties of his friends and was take
from the hall.
f. Colonel Roosevelt arrived at Mi
ii waukee shortly before 6 O'Clock las
Ii night 1t had been planned for him t
IS take dinner on his special car, but h
d Welded to the entreaties Of a loca
g committee and went to the Gilpatric
is Hotel
,e After dinner he was escorted to a
n automobile which was to take him
le the Auditorium Harry Cochem
w Phillip ]. Roosevelt, Elbert Marll
e and Colonel Cecil Lyon, members {
,s the colonel's own party, accompanie
him from the hotel and contrary
the usual custom, allowed him to el
ter the machine first
All had followed the colonel int
the automobile and Roosevelt we
. standing in the tonneau for a la
greeting to the crowd when the sht
. rang out. The bull moose lead'
~ swayed slightly, but recovering hir
self in moment, he turned to Coo
ems and said sh, not a wore
They've pinked me. Don't say
WORD"
But Martin, the colonels stenograp
lse er. had already thrown himself upt
ay the would-be assassin and borne hi
IN to the ground Colonel Lyon Jump
I'm from the machine, followed by Coo
ems and the two, with Martin, wre'
on ed the pistol from the hand of t
'ry assailant.
BY this time the crowd of sever
to hundred people was making raj
it advance upon Schrank. Cries
lot Lynch him," xiii himl" were ra
eo- ed, but Roosevelt with wave of
hand urged the crowd to be qui
OF Bring the man to me-" he sa
- "Don't hurt him.
But Cochems, Martin and Capta