The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-10-15
Shot by Crank in Milwaukee and Made His Ad-
dress While the Ball Was Lodged in
His Breast
COLONEls LIFE IS NOT IN DANGER
Removed to Chicago Hospital Where Operation
is Performed to Remove the Bullet
from Body.

A. o. r. Girard, former rough rider,
dragged their prisoner in the kitch-
en- of the hotel and held him there
until the local police took him to q
cell. Roosevelt ordered the driver OF
the machine TO continue to the audi
torium.
Against the entreties of his friends,
he insisted on speaking and was in
troduced by Cochems, who warned
the crowd that the colonel had met
with an accident, but asked them not
!! to worry as it was not serious
The colonel then began his speech
and continued until he swayed to and
/ fro from weakness. occasioned by his
loss of blood, and the members of his
party closed in on him and bore him
to the emergency hospital.
In the meantime, the assailant had
been taken to police headquarters
! He gave his name as John Schrank,
East Tenth street. New York, and
said he had worked at a hotel there OF
i which a relative was proprietor.
"Why did you shoot the colonel?'
he was asked.
ssI read the stories about him In the
II New York World and the Herald re,
= Piled Schrank. and / thought he was
L wrong to seek third term. / follow
!, ed him from Montgomery. and Chat
: tanooga and Atlanta and all through
the south waiting for chance"
, II followed him since September
}, IA"
September IA, 1901, is the date or
which President Mckinley died after
t being shot at Buffalo by Czolgolz.
Schrank had $157 In his pocket
some newspaper clippings and
!, COPY OF the Roosevelt itinerary fol
: the present trip. He was plainly
: dressed in a gray check suit. was
about SO years old and showed the ef
fects of the strain incident to his Ions
pursuit of the colonel.
Fearing that their prisoner woult
$ be lynched, the authorities spirited
q him off to the county jail where HI
: is now held under heavy guard.
! At the Emergency hospital, Roose
yelt walked into the operating room
. unassisted and submitted to an exam
ination.
>, DR. Joseph C. Bloodgood of John
. HOPKINS University, Baltimore, wa
:. visiting friends in Milwaukee, and o.
: hearing of the shooting, he hurrle
to The hospital and assisted DR.. Scurr
: Terrill. the colonePs private phys
: clans. DR.. S. f. Sorenson, of Racine
DR.. Stratton Of the hospital staff, an
several others in their efforts to Il
: cate the bullet. An X-ray phott
- graph showed the missile lodge
- against the wall of the chest on tn
is !, right side and just beneath the tent
= = rib 1t was deemed advisable not I
N nrobe for the shot until the colont
could be brought to Chicago.
: After the wound was dressed
Roosevelt returned to his special ca
- and ordered some warm water. The
80 he entered his own compartment an
"a shaved himself and went to bed. TT
- train reached Chicago in the ear
: dawn and at 6:15, the colonel We
taken to Mercy hospital in an amb
to lance.
as No More Campaigning.
at CHICAGO, Oct. 15.-Colonel Roos
Of Welt will do no more campaignir
or this year. Positive announcement tn
M the injury to the progressive lead
h was serious enough to keep him G
d the road during the remainder OF II
a campaign was made today at Mer
hospital, where he was to be oper;
III ed on today and bullet fired by
on fanatic in Milwaukee last night !
i'm moved.
ed AS soon as he is able to leave Il
,h- city, Colonel Roosevelt will be tax
st to Oyster Bay He will remain
he home there until he is complete
mended and will take no active pc
raj in the campaign.
Did The fact that his injury was su
of that IL would force him into reti
lis ment for some time was pointed {
his to the colonel by the surgeons at {
et. hospital. They were emphatic in II
i'd. ing him to assure his complete rec
cry. he would have to remain uu
ain for several weeks, and the colonel