Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1912-10-17
Receives Bullet From 38-Cali-
bre Gun at Milwaukee.
Assassin Captured, Admits
Shooting: Now i'm Prison.

Shooting; NOW In PRISON.
Col. Theodore Roosevelt, Progressive
candidate for President of the United
States, was shot but not seriously wound
ed Monday evening, October 18th, as he
was leaving the Glpatrick Hotel for the
Auditorium hall in Milwaukee.
The wound at first was not thought to
be serious and the Colonel went on to the
hall and began his speech after he had
seen his assailant arrested and taken to
the police station. Fora time the Colo
mel did not know he was hit, and after
his attention had been pointed to the bull
let hole in his overcoat and after he had
withdrawn his hand covered with blood,
he made light of the matter.
An examination was made at the Au-
ditorium, and his physicians urged him
to go to hospital, but he insisted on
making his address and spoke for an hour
and quarter ard only showed slight
signs of weakness from loss of blood.
Col Roosevelt life probably was saw
ed by manuscript of the speech which
he delivered that night
His assailant was prevented from fir
ing a second shot by Albert H. Martin,
one of the Colonel's secretaries, who
leaped from an automobile onto the mans
shoulders and bore him to the ground.
The crowd cried kill him, but the Colo
mel ask that the assassin be not hurt.
At police headquarters the man who
did the shooting gave his name as John
Schrank, and admitted that he had been
following the ex-President for many days
in hope of getting a chance to kill him.
Schrank came from Bavaria with his
parents when 8 years old, and has re-
emily been "a saloonkeeper in New York
ity he now being SO years old. He says
re has been personally acquainted with
Roosevelt ever since he was police COM
missioner of New York.
Schrenk gives the following reason for
,eeking Roosevelt's life:
MY knowledge of history, gained by
much reading, convinced me that Roose-
welt was following grand undertaking.
was convinced that if he was defeated
at the fall election ne would again cry
| Thief and that his action would plunge
the country into bloody civil war. |
deemed it my duty to put him out of the
way. Soon after had dream in which
former President Mckinley appeared to
me. | was told by Mckinley in this
dream that it was not Czolgoscz who
murdered him, but Roosevelt. Mckinley
in this dream, told me that his blood was
on Roosevelt's hand, ard that Roosevelt
had killed him so that he might become
President
The following report is given in We'd
nesday morning papers regarding the
condition of Col. Roosevelt:
Mercy Hospital, Chicago, Oct l5.-The
physicians, after making an X-ray photo
graph of Colonel Roosevelt, announced
that the bullet had entered the right
breast. to the right of and one inch be-
low the level of the right nipple.
"The wound is a simple one, but dan
gerous because of the possibility of blood
poisoning Colonel Roosevelt has phe-
nomenal development of the chest. 1t is
largely due to the fact that he is phys
zeal marvel that he was not fatally wound
ed. The gun was foul one and the bull
let passed through too many substances
before entered his body for fear of blood
blood poisoning not to be imminent.
1.-The range of the bullet, which was
of SO calibre, was upward and inward, a
distance of four inches on the chest wall.
The missile entered above the upper Dor
der of the liver, less than inch below the
lower border of the lungs.
IF the bullet had penetrated either
the liver or lung, or had entered the same
point on the left side, it would probably
have been fatal.
ut was not deemed necessary by the
physicians at Mercy Hospital to remove
the bullet now, but a careful watch will
be kept for septic conditions.