New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-10-15
Left New York with $500, Re.
volver and Papers Telling
Mckinley Vision, First
Going to Charles
ton, S. G.
HAD LONG KNOWN VICTIM
Says Third Term Was Menace and
Cries of Thief" After Chicago
Convention Would Have Been D.,
Repeated After Colonel's
Defeat at Polls


ought TO be shot" was all that he had
10 say but 1t was enough to show
that he was willing to confess. He re-
peated this several times. and Il was
the only answer that he would give.
Tomorrow / will tell you all that
YOU want TO know. want to sleep to-
night and do not want TO be bothered"
he said as he was taken through the
After a long cross -examina ton, how
ever, Schrenk talked freely. The
shooting was the result of carefully
laid plan by Schrenk. which was often
frustrated, but I'm which he finally sue
ceedcd, according TO his story.
Ran a saIoor Here.
According to his spry. he formerly
ran q saloon at No. $40 East 10th
street, between Avcnues and c. New
York He was born In Erding. Ba-
vsria, two hours ont OF Munich, the
capital He is thirty-six years old
and came to this country when he was
nine years old with his parents. He
had been engaged in the saloon bust
ness, as proprietor and as employe Of
members OF his family nearly all his
life. until he decided that IT was his
duty to kill Colonel Roosevelt He
said he had been personally acquaint-
ed with Roosevelt since the x-Presi-
dent was Police Commissioner Of New
York. in 1895.
Schrenk said he was at first attract
ed to him as a political parsonage dur
ing the recent Republican National
Convention in Chicago, Then he said
he began to think seriously Of him as
q menace 10 his country when he cried
Thief" at that convention. He looked
upon his plan to start third party.
as a danger TO the country, he said.
He said that his knowledge of history,
gained through much reading, con-
WINGED him of this. He. declared that
he was convinced that If Colonel
Roosevelt was defeated at the fall cleo
ton he would again cry Thief and
that his action would plunge the coun-
try into a bloody civil war.
Duty to Kill Him, He Said.
He said that he deemed II his duty,
after much consideration Of the situa-
ton, to put Colonel Roosevelt out OF
the way. He was living at his home
Il af hof ha oaI hut
after he had dream in which former
President Mckinley appeared to him.
He wae told by Mckinley In this
dream, that 1t was not Czolgosz who
murdered him. but Roosevelt, He said
Mckinley, in this dream, told him that
the blood was on Roosevelt's hands and
that Roosevelt had killed him so that
he might become President.
Schrenk said he was person more
deeply impressed by what he read In
the newspapers than others, and that
after having this dream he was more
convinced than ever that he should free
the country from the menace OF Roose-
velt's ambition.
On September II he moved TO the
near the Bowery. He did this as his
first step in plan to Kill Roosevelt.
He went soon afterward to a gun store
on Broadway and purchased q revol-
yer.
TraiIsd Him to the South.
He then purchased a ticket to
Charleston, S. c., and went TO that
city by steamboat. His first plan was
IN catch the Roosevelt party In New
Orleans. he said, but he found that
this was impossible. He accordingly
went to Charleston, and on his arrival
there had 5000 left. He left bag at
the Mosely House, In that city, which
contained besides the box In which
the revolver he had purchased had
been packed. a deed to property IN
S1st street. New York worm *zopoo'
and his naturalization papers. the
bag is there now, he said.
Not being able TO carry out his plan
in Charleston, he proceeded to Atian-
Ia. then to Chattanooga, Tenn ana
from there to Evansville and lndianap-
oils. Ind, and to Chicago. In each OF
these cities he tried to shoot Koose'e''
hut was unable to wsylay him. he
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