Martinsburg statesman-democrat. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1906-1921, 1912-10-18
THE COLONEL
CONDITION IS
MUCH IMPROVED
No Signs of Complication His
Physicians Announce.

ASSASSIN is HELD
IN MILWAUKEE, JAIL
Admits Guilt and Expected to Be Torn
Limb From Limb BY the Mob--Has
No Regrets and is "Ready For the
Rope"--Vjctim to Abandon Cam
paign Trip and Go Home.
fact that he lay on his cot in Mercy
Hospital with an assassin's bullet bur-
led deep in his chest, former presi-
dent Theodore Roosevelt passed
restful night and awoke this morning
seemingly aimproyed in condition.
The reports from Mercy Hospital
this morning were highly favorable
and the indications were that the doc
tors believe that his recovery will be
rapid.
There was much anxiety through
out the city concerning his condition
and the favorable reports coming from
the hospital were ieas5uring. All
waited anxiously for the appearance
of the early bulletins of the attending
physicians
The patient slept soundly after the
effect of the antititanic serum, which
was administered last evening to
prevent lock jaw wore off and awoke
from his nights slumber at $40 this
morning
When the nurse in attendance ask
ed him how he felt the Colonel replied
Bully, I'm feeling fine" He said that
he had suffered practically no pain
during the night.
Temperature Normal.
The bulletin issued by the physi-
clans shortly after o'clock this morn
ing showed that the patient was in
better condition than last night when
his pulse was much above normal and
his temperature high. His pulse was
reported at "a, two beats above normal
and his temperature had fallen from
99.2 at $50 last evening to 98.6 which
is his normal temperature.
The fact that there was no show
of irritation and that he suffered very
little was taken as an indication that
he would soon gather strength and be
on the way to rapid recovery
Mrs. Roosevelt Reaches Chicago.
Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt, Theodore
Roosevelt, Jr., Miss Ethel Roosevelt
and Dr. Alexander Lambert, the Roose-
welt family physician who left New
York yesterday afternoon arrived here
shortly after O'clock this morning.
Mrs. Roosevelt went Immediately to
Mercy Hospital where she was at once
admitted to the ward in which her
husband lies wounded.
Mrs. Alice Longworth, daughter of
Col. Roosevelt arrived at the hospital
about o'clock yesterday evening and
spent some time with her father.
Assassin Shot to XIII.
MILWAUKEE, Oct. 15.-Colonel
Theodore Roosevelt, ! Progressive can
didate for president, was shot here
last night shortly before o'clock by
John Schrenk, New York laundry
man, who is evidently a lunatic.
Schrenk was captured on the spot
and locked up.
The Colonel did not know he was
wounded and proceeded to the Audi
forum to make his address.
A square from the scene of the
shooting it was discovered that he
had been shot. He went on to the
hall, and after a hurried examination,
by the physicians, insisted on deliver
ing his speech
He finished his speech, although
perceptibly weak, and was hurried to
the hospital. The physicians made
an examination and took an x-ray
photograph and reported that he was
not seriously hurt. The Colonel left
the operating room unassisted and
went to his train. After the x-ray
photograph was developed it was
found that he was more seriously
wounded than the examination indi-
Gated. The bullet apparently pene-
trated three inches of the abdominal
walls.
He left at once for Chicago where
eminent surgeons awaited his arrival.
At the train he insisted he was
feeling fine and wanted TO shave but
the physicians would not let him do it.
MILWAUKEE,. Wis. Oct. 15.-John