Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1912-10-19

IBy Morning journal Special Leased Wire.
Chicago, oct. 1S.--The first vivid
impression of Colonei Roosevelt on
the night on which he was shot in Nil
waukee were related tonight from the
coonel's own lips. Apparently well
on the way toward recovery, he wa.
permitted TO enjoy greater desree OF
freedom and for the first time he
gave an account of the happenings in
the first few hours after the bullet
fu1nd its MARI.
Thc colonel said that he expects to
leave on Monday for oyster Bay. and
hoped to be back in the campaign,
making speeches again, week after
next.
Il feel as lively as a hull moose
said the colonel, by way of preface.
He was sitting on a huge leather chair
by a window in Mrs. Roosevelt's room.
adjoining his own.
What seemed to impress Colonel
Roosevelt most strongly was not the
shooting itself-he seemed to accept
that as a thing of the past to be dis
missed once it was over-but rather
his hour on the stage of the Milwau-
keo auditorium, when he was speak
ing with IL bullet in his side. He in
sisted that to make the speech was
only what any other man would have
done
1T was nothing, nothing" he said
81 felt little pain, but it was not
severe. When | stretched out my arm
or reached for my manuscript it made
me gasp bit, but that was all"
at was quite amusing" he went on,
when | reached for my manuscript,
To see that II had hole in it from the
bullet. and there was a hole in my
spectacle case, TOO
The colonel cnuckied us ne recall
ed the surprise he had felt at his dis
covery.
Amusing, did you say, colonel"
asked one of his hearers.
Well he qualified, 1T was inter-
csting.'
Colonel Roosevelt showed no indi-'
cation that he had felt the fear OF
death. He said he had no means of
knowing, as he delivered the speech
he had promised to make. whether he
was wounded fatally. but accepted as
a matter of course that he should go
on until he had finished. if his
strength held out but when il was
all over. and he had turned away to
80 TO the hospital, he said. he found
it difficult to keep his temper when
half dozen men scrambled over the
edge Of the platform and asked him
10 shake hands.
''Thcy wanted to shake hands, he
said, as though it stll surprised him.
"Didn't they know that it is impossi-
hle for man who has just been shot
to shake hands with genuine cordial
ity?"
OF the shooting itself. Colonel
Roosevelt had little to say. Not once
did he mention the name of John
Schrank. his assalant He talked in
an Unconditional way of being shot. as
though he we're discussing the ease
of a man with whom he was not ac-
quanted. lie said he felt no bitter
ness or rancor.
In dispassionate way. Colonel
Roosevelt spoke of his present condi
ton. and speculated on the chance
that he would have blood poisoning or
some other serious complication.
The physicians thought he was get
ting well. he said. but they had told
him there still remained the chance
of a setback.
Isn't ii curious thing he said.
that little spot'-he placed his
thumb near the tip of his forefinger
To indicate how small spot hc
meant-"can become infected and set
the whole thing back"
Then. he said. there was the possi- |
hility. the physicians had told him |
that pleurisy on pneumonia might de- '
Ncl"p. DR.. Alexander Lambert. he /.