The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1912-10-24

DIR. Murphy began to express his
concern openly. However, DIR.
Murphy explained that Colonel
ROOSevelt'S powerful constitution
was strong element i'm his
favor.
is blood poison" said DIR. Murphy
on the way to the hospital. 'I}ut
every possible precautiOn known
TO medical science il being taken
to prevent that"
As the ambulance moved away
a few train hands and paSSersby,
who had gathered upon seeing
the ambulance and automobile.
stood near the curb and took of
their hats and stood uncovered
when they learned that Colonel
Roosevelt was inside the hospital
vehicle.
FAVORABLE SIGN.
The same fortitude which had
enabled the former President TO
speak last night in Milwaukee
after he had been shot marked
his demeanOr after the hospital
was reached.
There il was found that his tenn
perature was about normal. This,
the surgeons said, was n favor
able sign.
Colonel Roosevelt talked with
the surgeons as they prepared the
X-Ray machine for a final exam
inatiOn before beginning TO probe
for the bullet.
Colonel Roosevelt. in the hos-
pital here. showed that same for
titude which ne had shown in the
hospital at Milwaukee, where,
while up in the operating room,
he dictated tho following telc-
gram TO his wife in New York:
Feeling fine. Have bullet in
chest, but il Will amount TO prac-
tjcally nothing. Man who shot
me used .3S-calibcr revolver.
Talked for hour and half after
being shot. Have felt fine all time
and will only be quiet two or three
days.
Before leaving Milwaukee Colo
mel Roosevelt took the arrange
mentS into his own hands and
called up MediIl Mccormick, the
Progressive leader in Illinois. on
the telephone at Chicago. The
Colonel asked Mr.. Mccormick TO
be at the Northwestern Station
with an automobile at O'Clock
this morning to take him to the
hospital.
The CoIonel's last words to Mr..
Mccormick were: 'I have Just
finished shaving myself"
BULLET LOCATED.
\ nurse who was I'm the room
when an X-ray examination was
made of Colonel Roosevelt today
said that the bullet had been To-
Gated in the fIcshy part of the
chest. The bullet is on the right
side, an inch and a half below
no ntrh nil unIr lilo
have as yet issued no formal
statement. The nurse asserted
that the doctors had decided to
operate at once.
The nurse said the bullet had
not penetrated the wall of the
chest, but was lodged in the
muscular tissues.
She further stated that the
surgeons had decided to perform
an operation at once. The result
of the examination, as reported by
the nurse, corresponds with that
made by DR.. Joseph BiOOdgOOd,
Of Johns Hopkins University, who
was one of the surgeons called i'm
attendance while the Colonel was
still i'm Milwaukee. DIR. Blood
good asserted that the bullet was
lodged between the ninth and
tenth ribs and lay just below the
right nipple.
After the examination the fol-
lowing telegram was sent 10 Mrs.
Roosevelt, i'm New York, by FL
bert Martin. private stcnOgrapher
TO the Colonel:
''The present examination sup
ports the prior one made by the
physicians in Milwaukee. The
respiratory movement on the right
side. in which the bullet is sit
uated. is perfectly free and easy,
and sounds normal. His pulse is
NORMAL, and there is little diff
Guilty i'm talking. He has expec-
tOrated no blood. The present
descriptions given by the X-ray
show the bullet to be situated in
a safe place. Additional X-rayS
are being made now and will be
completed within an hour"
CALLS FOR BOOK.