Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1912-10-17

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Ing and thrust his hand beneath it
When he withdrew it his fingers were
stained with blood.
Colonel Roosevelt was not at all dis
mayed by his discovery.
1t looks as though had been hit,''
be said, "but 1 don't think it is any
thing serious
DR.. Scurrey Terrell of Dallas, Texas,
who had entered the automobile just
before it started off, insisted that the
colonel return to the hotel He would
not hear of it, however, and the car
was driven to the Auditorium.
AS soon as they reached the build
ing, Colonel Roosevelt was taken into
. dressing room and his outer gar
ments were removed.
DR.. Terrell with the help Of DR..
John Stratton of Milwaukee and DR..
IS. S. Sorenson Of Racine, Wis, who
were in the audience and came to the
dressing room on call from the plat
form, made superficial examination
Of the wound. They agreed that It
was impossible to hazard guess az
to the extent of the colonel's injuries
and that he should by all means go at
once to hospital.
Il will deliver this speech or die"
said the colonel.
After the meeting closed Roosevelt
was rushed to his automobile and
flashed through the streets to the
emergency hospital.
The operating room had been placed
In readiness to receive Colonel Roose-
Of Milwaukee were awaiting his ar
rival. Colonel Roosevelt was undress-
ed and placed upon the operating table
although he insisted that he was not
badly hurt and that the doctors were
taking it too seriously.
| An examination of the wound show
ed that it had been made by bullet
| of large size.
It entered the feshy part Of the
right breast, half way between the
collar bone and lower rib. The physi-
clans found that they knew no more
after their examination and, as to the
location of the bullet, and it was de-
cided to send for an X-ray machine
to determine to what depth the mis-
sic had penetrated.
While he was waiting for the X-ray
| machine, Colonel Roosevelt sat up on
! the operating table and talked poll
! tics and joked with the physicians.
Assaiiant Talks Freely.
After long cross examination Colo
/ mel Roosevelt's assaiIant, John
Schrenk, talked more freely.
The shooting was the result Of a
carefully laid plan by schrank, which
was often frustrated, but in which he
| finally succeeded, according to his
story
The man talked freely after his first
stubborn refusal to give his name
when he was arrested by Sergeant
! Mooney at the Gilpatrick hotel.
According to his story, he formerly
! ran saloon at 37O E. Tenth Street
between avenues B and G, New York
city. He was born in Erding, Bavaria
two hours out of Munich, the capital
He is 36 years old and came to this
country when he was nine years old
with his parents. He had been engag
ed in the saloon business, as pro
! prietor and as an employe of mem
bers of his family nearly all his life
until he decided that it was his duty
to kill Colonel Roosevelt.
i Acquainted With Colonel.
5; He said he had been personally &C
uuainted with Roosevelt since the col
onel was police commissioner of New
York in 1895.
much consideration Of the situation
to put him out of the way. He liv
4 ing at his home address at that tim,
\ he said, but soon after he had dream
in which former President McKinle!
appeared to him. He was told by Nc
Kinley, in this dream that it was no
Czolgosz who murdered him but Roose
velt. He said Mckinley in his dream
; told him that the blood was on Roose
velts hands and that Roosevelt ha.
killed him so that he might becom,
president.
Colonel Roosevelt's special train lef
for Chicago at 1850 a. m. The Colone
S11Q that NC WOulu SpcuN LILO ul6AI VI
the car and that after remaining q fev
hours in Chicago he would go on &
Indianapolis to fulfill his speaking su
gagement for tonight,
Roosevelt's Train, South milwaukee,
Colonel Roosevelt was in bed, resi-
ing quietly as the special train puIls
out Of Milwaukee for Chicago.
Chicago Roosevelt will be taken
the Presby terian hospital on West Cor
gross street. where the four Chieag
surgeons who were to have gone 1
Milwaukee, will extract the bullet.
Milwaukee. The positive statemsn
that Colonel Roosevelt was not injure
seriously was made by DR.. Fred eric
{. "A. Stratton Of milwaukee,, one Of th
physicians who examined the Coions
. New York.-John Schrenk formerl
lived at the address given in the MI
waukee dispatches. He is Laundry
: man who left here about a month = pt