Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1912-10-17
COL. ROOSEVELT SHOT
LIFE ATTEMPTED BY AN
ASSASSIN IN MILWAUKEE
JOHN SCRRANk, new YORK,
Was tIe william. He Was Cap.
tured ar Once. Plead Guilty
And Was Bound Over to
Next Term of Circuit
Court

Theodore Roosevelt was shot and
seriously wounded in the right breast
Monday night as he was leaving the
Gilpatrick hotel in Milwaukee for the
auditorium to make speech by John
SchraAk, of New York. Despite his
wound the colonel insisted on going to
the auditorium and making his speech.
Later he was rushed to a Chicago hos
pital on his special car. Ebert E.
Martin, the colonePs stenographer.
seized the assailant A mob surged
around the man, who apparently is
fanatic on the subject of Roosevelt's
running for another term at present,
but the police succeeded in landing him
safely in the central station.
The assailant, who is small of statue
admitted firing the shot and said that
"any man looking for a third term
ought to he shot"
LIFE SAVED BY MANUSCRIPT.
Colonel Roosevelt's life probably was
saved by manuscript of the speech
which he delivered last night. Tie
bullet struck the manuscript which
retarded its force as it passed through
into the flesh. The assaiIant was pre-
vented from firing a second shot by
Albert H. Martin, one of Colonel
Roosevelt's two secretaries.
Colonel Roosevelt had just stepped
into an automobile when the would-b be
assassin pushed his way through the
crowd IN the street and fired.
Martin, who was standing in the car
with the colonel, jumped on to the
mans shoulders and bore him to the
ground, Captain A. o. Girard, of
Milwaukee, who was on the front seat,
jumped almost at the same time and in
an instant the man was overpowered
and dsarmed.
A wild cry of Lynch him." went up
from the crowd.
Colonel Roosevelt spoke to the
people and told them to spare the
assailant The man was taken into
the hotel and held there until he was
removed to the police station. In spite
of the entreaty of physicians, Colonel
Roosevelt insisted upon delivering his
address.
Il will make this speech or die, one
or the other" he said.
RUSHED TO EMERGENCY HOSPITAL.
! At the close of the speech he was
rushed TO his automobile and flashed
through the streets to the emergency
hospital.
The operating room had been placed
in readiness to receive Colonel Roose-
welt and six of the leading surgeons OF
Milwaukee were awaiting his arrival.
Colonel Roosevelt was undressed and
placed upon the operating table,
although he insisted that he was not
badly hurt and that the doctors were
taking it too seriously.
An examination of the wound showed
that it had been made by a bullet OF
large size. 1t entered the fieshy part
of the right breast, half way between
the collar bone AM lower rib. The
physicians found that they knew nc
more after their examination as to the
location of the bullet and it was
decided to send for an X-ray machine
to determine the depth the missile hac
penetrated.
While he was waiting for the X-ray
machine, Colonel Roosevelt sat up or
the operating table aud talked politics
and joked with the physicians.
In the meantime, hidden ava }
in room in the police station, Col.
Roosevelt's assailant was being sub
mitted to a rigid examination. He
efused stubbornly to give an account
of himself, and would say nothing
except that 81 will tell you tomorrow.
After long siege, however, the police
forced from him the statement that h.
was John Schrank; of $40 East Tenth
street, New York.
NOW IN CHICAGO HOSPITAL.
Colonel Roosevelt shot by Johr
Schrank, would-be assassin, in Nil.
waukee Monday night was rushed t
Chicago and is now in Mercy hospital
resting easily"
Half dozen of the most noted anC
skilled surgeons in Chicago, led by DR.
John B. Murphy, made X-ray examin
ations of the colonel's wound anC
announced that the bullet did no
pierce the lung, but had lodged in th'
chest.
DR.. Murphy stated that Colone