El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-10-15

mel Reassured by the news, the peo-
pie Tor the most part walked off.
When Col Roosevelt left the hOspi-
. tai walking unassisted, there were
/ only a few persons on the street.
How are you feeling. colonel ." said
one of the local committeeman. when
he came down the elevator from the
operating room just after an X-ray
picture had been taken
Fine announced the colonel and
as ne passed along he had a pleasant
word TO say to those who greeted him
in turn.
O. K Davis. secretary of the Pro
gresslVe national committee. sent q
telegram to Mrs. Roosevelt at saga
more Hill. assuring her that Col
Rcoseyelts condition was not serious
and that here was no cause for alarm.
schrank Born in Bavaria.
The man who shot Col. Roosevelt is
John : Schrank- He is a laundryman
and has a wife and child living in New
York.
When Schrank was searched at the
central police station he had SI441O.
He was born at Erding Bavaria He
IS 36 years old and came to this Coun-
try with his parents when he was
years old He had been engaged in
the saloon business Is proprietor ana
as an employe of members of his fam
lily. nearly all his life. until he decided
that 1t was his duty 10 kill Col Roose-
welt
He said he had been personally ac-
quainted with Roosevelt since the for
ner president was police commissioner
Of New York in 1895.
Considered Roosevelt n Menace.
lie said he was first attracted to
MIN as political parsonage during
the convention in Chicago Then ne
SAID he began to think seriously Of
him as a menace to his country when
he cried thief at that convention.
He looked upon his plan to start \
third party as a menace to the coun-
try, he said. He said that his knovvI-
edge of history. gained through much
reading, convinced him that Roosevelt
was engaged in a dangerous under
taking. He declared he was con-
WINGED that if he was defeated al the
fall election he would again cry
thief and that his action would
plunge the country into a bloody civil
He said he deemed it his duty after
much consideration. to put Roosevelt [
out of the way. He was living at his
home address at that time, ne said. !
but soon after ne had q dream i'm J
which former president Mckinley ap-
peared to him. He was told by Nc I
kinley in this dream that it was not F.
CzOlSOlZ who murdered him, but RoOse-
Welt. He said Mckinley in his dream I
told him that the blood was on ROOse-
velts hands and that Roosevelt had
killed him so that he might become
president.
Schrank said he was a person more /
leeply impressed by what he read i'm /
The newspapers than others. and that. Z
lfter having this dream. he was more
convinced than ever that he should
rec the country from the menace Of I
ambition.
On September q he removed to the ]
White hotel, at 15B Canal street. near
he BOWery. He did this as his first I
step i'm plan to kill Roosevelt He |
vent soon afterward to 81 gun store on /
Broadway and purchased revolver.
The man spoke fluently and was
Wiling to answer most of the ques-
ions put to him. He used excellent
English and seemed to be well salts
led with his deed. While being !
uiZzed he sat easily in a big leather
hair and looked his questioners
quarely in the eve
Speaks Despite Wound. \
Men and women shouted wildly, and l