The Rathdrum tribune. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1903-1963, 1912-10-18
TRIED TO KILL ROOSEVELT
Colonel Makes Speech With
Bullet in Chest
THEN Goes TO HOSPITAL
Shot at Milwaukee While on Way
to Auditorium.

The country was startled Mon
day evening when the news was
flashed abroad on the wires telling
that Colonel Theodore Roosevelt
was shot and wounded at Mil
waukee while getting into an
automobile to 60 to the Auditorium
where he was to address a mass
meeting. Details of the attempted
assassination of the Progressive
party's nominee for president was
contained in the daily papers
Tuesday morning.
According to the associated
press dispatches, as Colonel
Roosevelt got into the automobile
amid a cheering crowd. he stood
up answering the cheers with
wave of his hat, when a would-be
assassin rushed up and pointing
revolver at the colonel's heart fired.
Roosevelt was just turning to sit
down and the bullet entered his
right side penetrating about two
inches under the skin. No one,
not even the colonel, knew at first
that he was shot. At the report
of the pistol, Albert H. Martin,
the colonel's stenographer, flung
himself on the assailant, bearing
him to the ground and disarming
him. The crowd was furious and
cries of s.Lynch him, kill him."
were raised, but Roosevelt, who
stood calmly looking on, motioned
the crowd back, saying "Don't
hurt him." Some moments later
one of Roosevelt's secretaries saw
the hole in the colonel's overcoat
land called attention to it. The
colonel had felt no shock or pain,
but he now thrust his hand beneath
his coat and withdrew it, his
fingers stained with blood.
ut looks as though had been hit'
he said, .tbut l don't think it Is any
thing serious"
He refused to 10 back to the hotel,
but insisted on keeping his appoint
ment at the Auditorium. When hall
through his speech, however, bis
physical strength proved unequal tt
his courage and he was taken To the
hospital and later took the train to
Chicago where thorough search was
made for the bullet.
After being shot Colonel Roosevelt
' refused to consult his own safety
He said he had message for tht
people of Wisconsin and he woult
e deliver it or die in the attempt. HI
spoke for nearly an hour, by which
time, weakened by loss Of blood h
desisted and went to the hospital
where it was found the bullet hat
entered the right breast half way be
= tween the collar bone and lower rib
:. In ais Introductory remarks, re
. ferring to the fact that ne had beeI
. shot, Colonel Roosevelt said in part
&c Il have altogether too many i'm
20 portant things to think Of to pay an
= heed or feel any concern over my owl
!" death. | would not speak to yol
, insincerely within five minutes q
g being shot. l am telling you tn
- literal truth when say that my con
~ Germ is for many other things. 1t
~ not 10 the least for my own life.
IL am ia this cause with my Who'll
&c heart and soul; l believe 10 the pre-
VI pressive movement-a movement ~
8 the bettefment OF mankind, tn
:" movement for making life a it'll
90 easier for all Uf our people, a move
;" ment TO try to take the burdens q
~ The man aud especially the woma
= ip this country who is most oppressed
be | am absorbed 10 the success Of tina
ly M vement. l ask you now this eve
as ming to accept what l am saying q
oo absolute truth when l tell you | al
,t not thinking Of my own success, ! al
II. oot thinking Of my life Or Of aoy