The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-05-20
EBERT [. MARTIN
 IS VISITING IN CITY
Is Man Who Captured ROOse-
 velt's Assailant
TALKS OF SHOOTING
Has Been In Birmingham Before, But ss Shown New Side of City On Present Visit-Is Greatly
 Pleased

Ebert E. Martin, former private sec retary to Col. Theodore Roosevelt and the man who captured the would-be assassin of Colonel Roosevelt at Mill waukee during the campaign for the presidency in 1912, was in Birmingham yesterday MT Martin was at the time the travelling private secretary of Col onel Roosevelt and a former star on the Michigan football team. He was also travelling with Colonel Roosevelt when the Colonel visited Birmingham and made a speech at a luncheon served here following the return from Africa and prior to the progressive campaign. Mr. Martin is the proud possessor of a gold watch which was presented to him by Colonel Roosevelt as a token of re- lnembrance of the day in Milwaukee when the Colonel came near losing his life by the bullet of crank
 The episode to which you refer said MT Martin modestly yesterday at the press club, has been adequately de- scribed in the papers from one side of this country to the other. It appeared almost as related in the newspapers. Colonel Roosevelt was leaving the hotel. His party was in the automobile ready to leave when the crank, as call him, appeared and sent the bullet whizzing into the breast of the ex- President.
 My part in the affair was of little consequence. Colonel Roosevelt was fully able to take care of himself. Luckily l captured the man who shot Colonel Roosevelt and before one can relate it he was carried to the city iaiL Colonel Roosevelt continued his trip to the place where he was to speak and finished his address. Subsequent de- velopments, such as the special train to Chicago and his being confined to the hospital for some days are well known to the average newspaper reader. Col onel Roosevelt was not phazed by the blow. He appeared much calmer than the rest of us and he made his speech that night with blood running down his side as if nothing had happened. He IS truly a remarkable man and the peo- pie of Birmingham and the south, of whom he is extremely fond could not tie onto greater man or one that is more interested in their welfare than Colonel Roosevelt
 There was a great deal of talk fol- lowing the shooting of Colonel Roose- welt in Milwaukee which was mere idle SSdHudi ana the subsequent fN1aI Tn Michigan showed to the world that Col onel Roosevelt was not only a man of exemplary temperance but man that was able to stand s~vere blow and still do his duty as he saw it to his country.
 His return today from Brazil and other South American countries is a great survival of terrible dangers wired h1ln congratulations upon his dis covery of that new river and his safe return from the perils of the South American country"
 MT. Martin was here yesterday with Walton H. Marshall, manager of the Vanderbilt hotel. MT. Martin is con nected with that hostelry He said yes- terday that Birmingham was really one of the greatest cities that he had visited and that he was always glad to get back here.
 "I was in Birmingham twice with Col onel Roosevelt" said MT. Martin. We were here after the Colonel finished his African trip and he was delighted with the way the people of this city enter itained him. Colonel Roosevelt has the highest regard for Birmingham, which he has many reasons for remembering very cordially
 ''I have visited very few cities that are more attractive than Birmingham think the residential part of this place is really remarkable. This city is destined to become one of the most at tractive and most talked of places in the country in the course of time. In 'cidentially the people of Birmingham should be rather strong for Colonel Roosevelt for it was the Colonel, at that time President, who gave to the Birmingham district the Steel corpor- ation and it is not assuming too much 10 say that the Steel corporation has done a great deal for this place"
 Mir. Martin and MT Marshall were guests at the press club yesterday.