The Mobridge news. [volume] (Mobridge, Walworth Co., S.D.) 190?-1917, 1912-10-18

ln8 weak, ana members " ms party
rose 10 help him. He mentioned them
to sit down
Let me alone. In Ell right" he
said
As sooo rs Colonel Roosevelt had
assured himself tha: the assassin was
safe in the hands Of the police. he
gave orders TO drive on 70 the Audi
torium
They had driven hardly one Of the
four blocks from the hotel to the Au-
ditOrium when JOnn McSrath, another
of Colonel ROoseyolts secretaries, at.
tered a sharp exclamation and pointed
10 the colouels breast.
Look colonel" he said there is
a hole in your Overcoat.
Colonel Roosevelt looked down, saw
the hole. then unbut,oDcd The biz
brown army coat which he wa5 wear
nS ana thrust his hand beneath il
When be withdrew it his iRgevs were
stained with blood.
Colonel Roosevelt was not at all DIS
mayed by his discovery
1t looks as though had been hit
he said, but ! don't think it is any
thing serious"
Dr. icurrey Terrell OF Dallas, Texas
Who had entered the automobile just
before it started off, insisted hat thc
colonel return to the hotel BE would
not hear of it. however, and the car
was driven TO the Auditorium.
As soon as they reached the build
ing. Colonel Roosevelt was taken into
a dressing room and his outer gar
ments were removed
DR. Terrell with the help Of Dr.
John StrattOn Of Milwaukee and DR.
:. 5. Sorensom of Racine, Wis, who
were In the audience and came 10 the
dressing room on call from the plat
form made a superficial examination
of the wound. They agreed that it
was impossible to hazard guess as
and that he should by all means go al
once TO hospital.
i viii deliver this speech or die"
said the colonel.
After the meeting closed Roosevelt
was rushed 10 his automobile and
flashed through the streets tn the
emergency hospital.
The operating room had been placed
i'll readiness TO receive Colonel Roosc
Welt and six of the leading surgeons
OF Milwaukee were awaiting his ar
rival. Colonel Roosevelt was undress
ed and placed upon the operating table
although he insisted that he was not
badly hurt and that the doctors were
taking II roo seriously.
An examination Of the wound show
ed mat it had been made by a bullet
Of large size.
II entered the neshy part or the
right breast, half way between the
collar bone and lower rib. The physi
clans found that they knew no more
after their examination and, as to the
location Of the bullet, an il was de
cided to send for an X-ray machine
to determine to what depth the mis-
sic had penetrated.
While he was waiting for the X-ray
machine, Colonel Roosevelt sat up on
the operating table and talked poll
tics and joked with the physicians
AssaiIant Talks Freely.
After Il long cross examination Colo
mel R0osevelt's assailant, John
Schrenk. talked more freely.
The shooting was the result OF a
carefully laid plan by Schrank, which
was often illustrated, but in which he
finally succeeded, according to his
story.
The man talked freely after his first
stubborn refusal TO give his name
when he was arrested by Sergeant
Mooney at the Gilpatrick hotel
According TO his story, he formerly
ran saloon at $40 T.. Tenth Street
between avenues b and c. New Yorh
city. He was born in Erdng, Bavaria,
two hours out of Munich the capital
He is 36 years old and came to this
country when he was nine years old
with his parents. He had been engag-
ed in the saloon business as pro-
bers of his family nearly all his life.
until he decided that it was his duty
to kill Colonel Roosevelt
Acquainted With Colonel.
He said he had been personally ac-
quainted with Roosevelt since the col
onel was police commissioner OF New
York In 1895.
He said he deemed il his duty, after
much consideration of the situation.
TO put him out OF the way He was liv
ing at his home address at that time
he said, but soon after he had dream
in which former President Mckinley
appeared to him. He was told by Nc
kinley, in this dream that il was not
Czolgosz who murdered him but Roose-
velt He said Mckinley, in his dream.
told him that the blood was on Roose-
velt's hands and that Roosevelt had
killed him so that he might become