The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-10-19
TELLS HOW IT FELT
TO BE SHOT UP
Interesting Review by Col. Roosevelt OF
the Time When He Was Hit at
Milwaukee Monday Night.

Chicago, Oct. l9.-The first vivid i'm
pressions of Colonel Roosevelt on tn,
night on which he was shot in Mil
waukee were related last night from th'
colonePs own lips. Apparently well OF
the way toward recovery, he was per
mtted to enjoy greater degree OF free
dom, and for the first time he gave ar
account of the happenings in the first
few hours after the bullet found its
mark.
II feel as lively as bulldog said
the colonel, by way of preface. He was
sitting in huge leather chair by Il
window in Mrs. Roosevelt's room, ad.
joining his own. He was wrapped in
blue bath robe of Turkish toweling
with steamer rug thrown over his feet
to protect him from the autumn breeze
which was borne in through the open
window.
What seemed to impress Colonel
Roosevelt most strongly was not the
shooting itself. He seemed to accept
that as thing of the past, to be dis
missed once it was over; but rather
his hour on the stage of the Milwaukee
Auditorium, when he was speaking with
a bullet in his side. But he insisted that
to make the speech was only what any
other man would have done under the
circumstances.
1T was nothing, nothing" he said,
81 felt a little pain, but it was not
severe. When | stretched out my arms
or reached for my manuscript, it made
me gasp bit, but that was all.
ut was quite amusing he went on,
"when ! reached for my manuscript, to
see that it had hole in it from the
bullet; and there was hole in my spec
tacle case, too"
The colonel chuckled as he recalled
the surprise he bad felt at his dis
covery.
Colonel Roosevelt showed no indication
that he had felt the fear of death.
He said he had no means of knowing,
az he delivered the speech he had pca.a
sed to make, whether he was wounded
fatally, but accepted as matter Of
course that he should go on until he
had finished, if his strength held out.
But when it was all over and he had
TUNED away to go to the hospital, he
said he found it difficult to keep mis-
temper when half a dozen men scran
bled over the edge of the platform and
asked him to stand hands.
"They wanted to shake hands," he |
said as though it still surprised hirn
"Didn't they know that it IS impossI.
bic for man who has just been SCOT
to shake hands with genYine cordi1i
ity?"
OF tie shooting itself, Colonel Roose.
veit had little to say. Not once dill
hc mention the name of Jahn Schrank.
his assailant He said he bore no BIT
terness or rancor.
In dispassionate way, Colonel Roose i
yeit spoke of his present condition and
upon the chance that he would
have of blood poisoning or some 9th
er serious complication. The physicians
thonght that he was getting well. he :
said. but they had told him that there Z
still remained the chance of setback. I
Then. he said. there was the possi- {
oilty. the physicians had told him, thac |
I rleurisy or pneumonia might develop. ]
rr Alexander I-amber. he said, had spaiS- [
IN OF returning TO New York yesterday,
bit his associate asked him to remain. ,
because they felt that all danger was
not past.
The colonel said that he felt no pam
II present. He said that while he still
.ad an occasional twinge to remind him
4 il. he was at ease. :
rs he talked he moved his arms freely.
,.though he was careful not to move his
,oly.
he colonel still had trouble with lsl
.raker rib. he said. His yuly apparent
rarrv was lest the rib should not Sni. r
ui,Fly eneugh 60 permit him to make a h
~ speeches in the closing DAYS Of the il
tniraign. II he took deeD breath, be u
xpiained. the edges parted, and the be- "
iLning which nature had made at her :
ask of knitting them together would be
i for naught. r
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