Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-10-17
CoenI Roosevelt Passes Good Night and Shows Continual Improvement Indications Pointing to R
DISTINGUISHED PATIENT PLANS EARLY RESUMPTION OF CAMPAIGN AS HE LIES II
Nothing Bothering Him, Says
Assassin of CoIoneI-Hopes
Wound Is Fatal.


MILWAUKEE,. Wis. Oct. H.
why shouldn't l sleep well; there's
nothing bothering my conscience"
This was the remark of JOIN
Schrank, the man who shot Colonel
Roosevelt, when this morning he was
asked by an attendant at the county
jail as to how he rested during the
night. Schrank apparently slept eight
hours without a break.
With a shutting gait John Flam-
| ming Schrank slouched into the office
of Chief Jannsen at police h%eadquar-
ters and with a hollow good after
noon slid into a chair. Behind him
came two deputy sheriffs, who
watched him as a tiger eyes its prey
Chief Jannsen had telephoned over
to the county jail. across the way
from police headquarters, for Schrank
! SO a reporter might interrogate him
on the attempt TO kill Colonel Roose-
Welt.
John, a reporter wants to ask you
something" remarked the chief, puff
fing a cigar.
What is it?" demanded Schrank,
fretfully. I've talked my head off
since I fired the shot at Roosevelt. I
haven't anything to say"
What was the motive back of the
shooting of the colonel?"f asked the
reporter.
Schrank shifted in his chat and
tapped the floor with the blunt toe
of a well-worn shoe. Haven't I told
everybody that Roosevelt was TOO
ambitious?" He snorted. They're
all trying to make me out crazy, as
if I did it because 1 was out of mind.
That's not so. If Roosevelt hadn't
been eager to get that third-term
he'd be alive now.
DO you think he is dead?" was
asked.
II don't know anything about it,
snapped Schrank. whats more. /
don't care a hang. They haven't told
me if l killed him. / came here to
do it, and if l did not then anyhow
/ did all l could. If he's alive ]
made a bad job of it,"
why did you wait so long after
making up your mind a month ago
to kill the colonel before firing the
shot?" asked the writer.
a was tOO lal away lOI lit, lndI
was ALL" snarled Schrank. Hes the
slickest nan 1 eve saw; makes peo-
pie think he's coming out of one door
and pops out of another: how could 1
get him when he fooled hat way?"
II almost did get him at Chatta-
nooga, though Schrank went on, for
the first time betraying a real interest
in the interview. 81 had my revolver
tucked in my vest pocket and stood
at the automobile as he came out of
the depot on sunday night. Every
thing was all right for a shot. but l
vas afraid I'd hit somebody else, they
were all crowding So"
what difference did it make to you
If o killed any one else If you ac-
complished your idea of shooting the
colonel?'
That's a damned fool question:"
roared Schrank, scornfully. Nobody
had done me harm but Roosevelt.
He'd harm the whole country by be-
ing a third-termer, and | had to get
rid of him. Nobody else was running
for a third term, was there?"
The dumpy, squat-faced prisoner
evinced a show of temper only once
during the interview, that was when
he was asked If he had come to Mil
waukee to murder the colonel because
there is no capital punishment in
Wisconsin.
you thought o could escape the
electric chair if you killed him here?"
was put to him.
Schrank's pallid face lit up with a