The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1912-10-18

he finally succeeded, according to his
story.
The man talked freely after his first
| when he was arrested by Sergent
Mooney at the Fitzpatrick hotel.
According to his story he formerly
ran a saloon at $40 East Tenth street,
between Avenues B. and G, New
York city. He was born in Erding,
Bavaria, two hours out of Munich, the
capital. He is Sc years old and came
to this county when he was 8 years
old with his parents. He had been
engaged in the saloon business, as
proprietor and as an employe of mem
bers 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 ac-
quainted with Roosevelt since the
colonel was police commissioner of
New York in 1895.
He said he was first attracted to
him as a political parsonage during
the convention in Chicago. Then he
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 a
third party as a danger to the coun-
try, he said. He said that his know
ledge of history, gained through
much reading, convinced him that
Roosevelt was engaged in a danger
Gus undertaking. He declared that
he was convinced that if he was de-
feated at the fall election he would
again cry thief" and that his action
would plunge the country into
bloody civil war.
He said that he deemed it his duty,
after much consideration of the sit
uation, to put him out of the way.
He was living at his home address
at the time, he said, but soon after
he had a dream in which former
President Mckinley appeared to him.
He was told by Mckinley in this
dream that it was not Czolgosz who
murdered him, but Roosevelt. He
said Mckinley, in this dream. told
him that the blood was on Roose-
velt's hands and that Roosevelt had
killed him so that he might become
president.
Schrenk said that he was a per-
he read in the newspapers than others
and that after having his dream he
was more convinced than ever that
he should free the country from the
menace of Roosevelt's ambition.
September p he removed to the
White hotel at 157 Canal street, near
the Bowery He did this as his first
step in a plan to kill Roosevelt. He
went soon afterward to a gun store
on Broadway and purchased a revolt
yer.
He then purchased a ticket to
Charleston, S. c., and went to that
city by steamboat. His first plan
was to catch the Roosevelt party
in New Orleans, he said, but he
found that to be impossible. He &C.
cordingly went to Charleston, and
upon his arrival there had $500
left. He left bag at the Moseley
house in that city, which contained,
besides the box in which the revol-
yer he had purchased had been
packed, a deed to property on
Eighty-first street in New York,
worth $4,000 and his naturalization
papers. That bag is there now.
plan in Charleston, he proceeded
to Atlanta, Ga, then to Chattanooga,
Tenn, and from there to Evans
vile and Indianapolis, Ind, and to
Chicago. In each one of these
cities he tried to shoot Roosevelt, but
was unable to waylay him. He de-
cided to shoot him as he arrived in
Chicago and waited for him at the
Chicago and Northwestern station,
but the intended victim did not ar
rive there.
He then decided to do the shoot
ing at the Coliseum, but in this
case, as in others, Roosevelt left the
building by an entrance other than
the one at which he had stationed
himself.
. During all this time he had travel
ed under the name of Walter Ross,
except at Charleston, where he gave
his right name.