New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-10-17
M ROOSEVELT RAID
70 INSPIRE SCHRANK
Oocords Here Fail to Bear Out
Story Told by WouId-Be
Assassin.
DELVlNG INTO CAREER
Commissioner Waldo Finds
Man Had Once Owned a sa-
loon and Tenement House
in New York.


s.,~,rk who attempted to assassinate
colopel Roosevelt, that Roosevelt, while
Police Commissioner, ordered raid on
-. saloon Of his uncle, Dominick Flam-
.,c At No. $40 East 10th street, the
.,pca Yesterday began an investigation
:. the theory that this might have been
,..-rr,sntaI in turning the mans mind
.o,ipst Colonel Roosevelt.
thorough search of the records OF
-. Excise Department of the State of
vsv York, at No. Madison avenue, was
.,.5s hack as far as 1925, the year when
rIonmang first obtained his license. NO
-scord was found that any excise raid was
aver made upon the place.
search also was made for the records
~ the Union Market police station. in the
mn nrecinct, where the saloon was To-
.,,sd but II was found that the blotters
~ that period had been taken TO Police
u,sdouarters and stored I'm the basement.
:, was said that Police Commissioners
Us,do would have the books brought out
and examined to see II there was any
record of a raid on the place
several of the older policemen in the
,rscinct said they remembered the saloon
vsu hut that it always bore a good repu-
n,ion and they were certain that 1t had
never been raided.
Papers Reveal Life Story.
Acting upon a telegrsphic request for
all information regarding Schrank OBJ
rslnable in this city from ]. D. Jansen,
chief of police. Of Milwaukee, Inspector
Joseph Faurot, Of the detective bureau
rere. detailed men to look into the mans
history. AS a result OF the discoveries
made BY Faurot's men, long letter was
stnt last night 10 Chief Jansen contain
,pg all that had been learned about the
man Much additional information was
obtained concerning him from papers
found I'm a small leather box which was
found where he had left it at the Oid
Homestead Hotel, No. JAS Cooper street
East New York. An inspection Of these
papers revealed the fact that he had pre-
served with strange care about two nun
bred papers and letters containing many
Items about his life.
From april 80. 100. until April 30 1905
schrank was proprietor Of saloon at NO
30 East 10th street. Before that uihe
ne lived with his aunt, Anna, and her
husband. Dominick Flammang, at No i6d
East Sst street. The aunt died In 1870
and the uncle on February !, 1911.
schrank's next address rssas no lB
Cooper street. East New York. at the
Old Homestead Hotel. He lived there
from February, 1911. until January 10 1917.
While there he asked Edward Lauinger 10
collect the rents from the tenement house
at No 433 East Slst street. which he IN
hsrted from his aunt and uncle. lie gave
as his reason that ne had trouble with
the tenants and did not want to 20
around there any more himself.
Owned Tenement House Here.
When he left the Old Homestead he
went 10 1--we at the White House, No $50
Canal street. He seemed 70 brood good
deal about his dead relatives, and MADE
weekly visits TO his uncle's grave at Fresh
Pond On September 10, 1912, he told Ed
ward Lauinger that he was short "t
money, and asked him 10 lend him some.
Laulnger got his brother Herman TO give
schrank $50 on a ninety-day note. This
was on September IS 1872 Three days
later Edward Iauinger received 4 note
from him, dated at the White Honsc.
saying:
Il have just received news that rich
uncle Of mine died at New Orleans.
am going there ct once. VIII send you
postal from Charleston, South Caro-
laA"
Among the papers found In the little
leather box which he left with the Lau-
myers, at the Old Homestead. was his
birth certificate, showing that he was
born in Erding. Bavaria, on March 8,
1875 the son Of Michael and Katharine
sehrank
There were also papers showing the
marriage and deaths of his aunt and
uncle, and that he was their sole heir.
tax certificate showed that he had
paid S239 taxes on the tenement house