The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1919-01-10
ROO5tVELT'S END
SUDDEN; PASSES
AWAY IN SLEEP
Ex-Presl0ent'S Death Is Due to
Blood CiOt.
RHEUMATISM IS REAL CAUSE
No One With Him at Actual Time of
Death, as Attendant Had Gone to
Call a Nurse-Funerai Ser
vices Wednesday.

Iage. Death is believed to have been
due to rheumatism which affected his
heart. The colonel suffered severe
attack of rheumatism and sciatica on
New Years day, but none believed
that his illness would prove fatal.
The former president sat up most of
Sunday and retired at eleven o'clock
Sunday night.
The exact time of Colonel Roose-
velts death was :15 a. M, as nearly as
can be determined, for there was no
person at his bedside at the moment
he passed away. A minute or two be-
fore, his attendant, James Amos, the
young cOlOred man who has been in
the employ of the colonel ever since
the patient was breathing heavily in
his sleep and went to call a nurse.
When he returned with her the former
president was dead. Mrs. Roosevelt
was Immediately summoned.
kilograms were dispatched to the
colOnels children who were in other
parts of the country.
Two of the colonel's sons, Maj. The
OdOre Roosevelt, Jr., and Capt. Ker-
nit Roosevelt. are in service abroad.
Statement by coloneI's Physician.
The following statement was given
by DR.. G. w. Fudier Of Oyster Bay, the
physician who last saw the colonel:
Colonel Roosevelt retired at twelve
o'clock Sunday night feeling much bet
ter. At 4:15 o'clock Monday morning
he simply ceased to breathe. Death
was caused probably by a pulmonary
embOlism."
Because of Mrs. ROOsevelt's wish,
the colonel will be buried as private
citizen. The funeral, which will be
held Wednesday in Christ Episcopal
church, which the family attended,
will be private.
kilograms of coincidence and sym
pathy began to pour in from all parts
of the country as soon as the news
of Colonel ROosevelt's death became
known.
The former president came to his
home on Sycamore Hill from the
Roosevelt hospital on Christmas day,
but week later was stricken with q
severe attack of rheumatism and sci
atica, from which he had been suffer
ing for some time.
The rheumatism affected his right
hand and it became much swollen. He
remained in his room and efforts were
made to check the trouble
Mrs. Roosevelt Phones News.
News of the death of the former
president was received in New York
by Miss Josephine Stricken, the colo
ners secretary, IN a telephone mes
sage from Mrs. Roosevelt.
The immediate cause of Colonel
ROOsevelt's death was pulmonary en-
holism or Judgment in the lung of a
cIOt from a broken vein, it was stated
later by one of his physicians. Death,
it was said. came to him painlessly as
he slept.
FOrty-eight hours before his death
the former president had been visited
by one of his physicians, who stated
ne found the colonel apparently ia
good condition and spirits
Colonel ROosevelts last illness may
be said to date from last February.
On February 5 il was announced
that he had been removed from his
home in Oyster Bay to the Roosevelt
hospital in this city, following an OPP
Grafton on one of the ears.
Broken by Sons Death.
One of the things that is believed
TO have cont ibuted more than any
other to the colonels breakdown was
the death last fall of his son, Lieut.
Quentin Roosevelt the aviator, in ac-
ton in France. Proud of his heroic
sons achievements, Colonel Roosevelt
bore up under the sorrow of his death
with a fOrtitude that was in keeping
with his spirit in public life. Friends
said that while the father ibid not
carry his heart on his sleeve" he suf-
fered most poignant griefs in silence
and tried to forget them by plunging
harder than ever into his work.
Was Born in New York.
Colonel Roosevelt, statesman, SOL
der and author, and the twenty-sixth
president of the United States, was
the most spectacular and picturesque
figure that ever appeared upon the
stage of American public life.
For upward of thirty years Colonel
Roosevelt was in the public eye in one
role or another and he was perhaps
the hest known mar of his day. A
man of tremendous personality, his
magnetism won him host of follow
ers who stuck by him through the ups
and downs of his long and historic po-
litical career.
Colonel Roosevelt was born in New
York city on October q. 1858, being
the second son of Theodore Roosevelt.
a merchant aud philanthropist. The
colonel could trace his American ances-
try back to 1914 when the first of the