The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-10-15

Chicago Oct 15-Every speaking tIate of Col. Theodore Roosevelt, who was shot by fanatic at Milwaukee. last night. was cancelled today, and the private car in which he and his uarty have been touring the country has been released. The surgeons have decided that for the present no oper- ation will be performed for the re- rnovaI of the bullet.
 The coIoneFs condition, this after noon. was improved, according to the latest bulletin given out by Dr. John B Murphy, who heads the squad or surgeons caring for the wounded Fro SyreSSive leader
 The following statement was issued at the Mercy Hospital at 10:3O a. m: .-Fhe bullet wound at chest wall uithout strking any tiIal bna,. oi 1-nbed. Point of entry is one inch to the r1gnt and one inch below the level of the rirht nipple The bullet ranged up ward and inward for a distance of four inches into the chest wall No ev1- dence that the bullet penetrated the lung Pulse is 90, temperature SS 2-lV. sNo operation to remove the bullet Is zntended at present time Condition IS hopefuI. but the wound is so import her of days. Csigned). John B. Ndur- 9hy. Arthur B. Evers, s. Terrill, S. G. sayie, attending physicians"
 At 1:S0 surgeons issued a statement that Rooseveit's temperature was 9s.s, his pulse 92 and respiration normal
 Absolute quiet is what the patient nseds.'' the bulletin said and he wali EIas injury is serious one and not 2 mere flesh wound"
 Col. Roosevelt aw.oke after two hours sleep early today, and smiling lv said he was mot feeling so bad. His condition. while an attempt was made to minimize it by the pnysl- clans was admittedly serious.
 At Mercy Hospital ,Dr. Terrill, the col crels personal physcan; pr. Joseph 2. Bloodgood of Johns Hopkins Univers1- Aee, with four eminent C1icago sur geons, DTS. Arthur Bevans, John B. Murphy. IL l. MeAF1nnE ssa b,iIet Iodred a1a un- der his 10th rib and against the wall of his chest. The greatest danger from bloodpoisoning, the surgeons fired from a rusty revolver and pos ssfbly had deposited infection as it pIowed through the clothing, ms tnlck bundle of manuscript of the speech which he was to deliver at Mhwau- kee last night and his spectacle case and into his body.
 waukee, nearly two hours ride, the col onel slept in the Stateroom of his car, which was attached to a pWvate train Then his temperature was normal but his pulse was s4-the colonel's normal p,1lse Is 72 Drs. Terrill, Bloodgood and Sayles remained by his side dur ~T~ S:30 a. m.
 As the colonel was sleeping when the train reached Chicago, it was decided to allow him to sleep until daylight. His train was put on a quiet spur and he was not awakened until a. m-
 When the colonel awoke he and his retary J. William McGrath, and the doctors were taken at once to Mercy Hospital A thorough eXamlnaIon
 The colonel insisted that his injury was not so dangerous as the doctors would have him believe He said he have any fear of the injury proving fatal.
 be spared was put at the disposal. of the colonePs physicians, and two of 1hes most competent nurses in the in tstitution were assigned to his room.
 AZ operation was postponed when Col Roosevelt was taken to the op- erating room and an X-Ray exam1na- tion = was made by DE9291o55S E92trn5 ssid M1rpay afy ter the examination:
 we have located the exact source of the bullet and have determined definitely that it did not touch any vital spot. Col. RooSevelt's life Is not in any danger
 Col Roosevelt patiently submitted to two x-Ray examinations. While they were in progress he laughed and joked with the surgeons and there was a twinkle in his eye that indicated that
  his cheerfulness.
 Carrying that speech in your pock- ct certainly was a lucky thing for yoJ' said pr. Ochsner. one of the Chicago surgeons who was to help in the operation
 "Ho, ho,'' laughed the co1pnel. "that speech would have stopped more than a bullet It a great speech
 Dr. John B. Murphy, who was to wieid the knife, stopped the machine and looked at the colonel's face. 'It came pretty near getting you, colonel, g said the surgeon. Not little bullet like that" said the colonel. '@They will have to use bigger bullets than that. It would take a Howitzer to kill a Bull Moose
 Chicago, Oct 15.-With 38 caIibre bullet in his right breast, Col. Theo- dore Roosevelt, ex-presiden&- of the United States, leader of the Progress .-e party and candidate for president on the Bull Moose ticket, is at Mercy Hospital, this city.
 John Schrank, East 10th street. New York, who followed the colonel all oV- the south and finally fired the shot that nearly killed him, is in the hands of the police at Milwaukee.
 The authorities at Milwaukee spir- dted their prisoner to the county jail to avoid the possibility of a lynching.