Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1912-10-16
COLONEL r ROOSEVELT
SHOT BY CRANK

VUlVyEL kUUoEvELl
!. SHOT BY CRANK
Former President The Victim o.
An Attempted Murder at
Milwaukee Monday.
Col. Theodore Roosevelt, ex-presi.
dent and candidate for president or
the Progressive ticket was shot al
Milwaukee Monday evening, while or
hisSway from his hotel to the Audi.
torium, by crazed fanatic from
New York Citv.. who had followed
Roosevelt for some time from city tc
city until he secured the chance oil
firing at him at close range.
The 38 calibre bullet was stopped
to some extent by passing thru the
Coloneps manuscript in his inside
pocket, but still it pentrated into his
body, inficting flesh wound.
Col. Roosevelt did not pay any at
tention to the wound at first anc
hardly knew he was shot. He insist
ed on proceeding to the auditorium
aud there made a speech Of over ar
hour. There he found that his clothes
were bloody and he dramatically
showed the audience his bloody shirt
aAd denounced the opposition news
papers supporting Debs, Wilson and
Taft as having melted some weak
mind to do this deed by their cam
paign attacks on him.
rCol. Roosevelt was taken to an en-
ergency hospital and after a pre-
liminary examination the Colonel left
for his car, ON which he sle~t sound.
" on his, way to Chicago. Here he
was placed in a hospital and more
thoro examination was made which
revealed the fact that the wound was
more serious than at first supposed
The Colonel's fourth rib was frac-
tured and the several X-ray examina
tions have failed to locate the exact
location Of the bullet. The Colonel
eats heartily sleeps soundly, reads
the papers, and magazines and talks
to his friends and does not take the
matter as seriouslu as the surgeons
do.
Mrs. Roosevelt and three children
joined him from New York yesterday
L is practically. certain that Col
Rposeyelt will not be permitted to d
amy more active campaigning.
: Gov. Woodrow Wilson, his mos
formidable opponent, has declared
that he will make no more speeches
until the Colonel takes the field again
The latest bulletins are to the eff.
feet that Col. Roosevelt's respiration
pulse and temperature are nearlynor.
NAL, and no serious results are ex-
pected to develop unless the wound
should become affected in some way.
The shooting occurred as Col
Roosevelt was leaving the Gilpatricl
hotel to go to the auditorium.
Colonel Roosevelt's life probably
was saved by manuscript Of the
speech which he delivered that night
The bullet struck the manuscript
which retarded it's force as it passed
through into the flesh. The assail.
amt was prevented from firing a sec
ond shot bv Albert H. Martin, one Of
Colonel Roosevelt's secretaries.
Colonel Roosevelt had just step
ped into an automobile when tn
wouA-be assassin pushed his wa,
through the crowd In the street ana
fired.
Martin caught the flash of the re
|volver before the shot was fired am
leaped over the car a second afte
the bullet sped on its way.
} Colonel Roosevelt barely moved a
the shot was fred. Before the crow
knew what had happened, Martin
} who is nearly six feet tall and for
mer football player, had lande
| squarely on the assailant's should
ers and had borne him to the grounG
, In another second he had disarme
. him.
. Colonel Roosevelt stood calml
l looking on as though nothing ha
happened. Martin picked the man u
, as though he were child and car
, ried him the few feet which sonar
r ated them from the car, almost t
the side Of the colonel.
> "Here he is" said Martin. "Loo
at him, colonel"
: All this happened within a fe7
3 seconds and Colonel Roosevelt stoo
5 gazing rather curiously at the ma
who attempted his life, before tn