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ROOSEVELTS CONDITION MORE SERIOUS ROOSEVELT CALM WHEN SHOT SAVES ASSAILANT FROM CROWD; KEEPS ENGAGEMENT TO SPEAK MILWAUKEE, Oct. 15.—As he was leaving his hotel for the Auditorium last night, Colonel Theo dore Roosevelt was shot by a man thought to be a fanatic. , The great progressive stood for a moment in Ins automobile, his left hand clutching his right breast, and waved back the crowd that shouted "lynch him, lynch him," then calmly nodded farewell and de parted for the Auditorium where he delivered his speech. It was a manuscript of the speech which he car ried inside his coat that saved the life of the former president. A ragged bullet hole through the folded paper shows how narrow was his escape. Albert H. Martin, one of Roosevelt's secretaries, grabbed the would-be assassin't arm as he was aim ing the revolver for a second shot. After an hour's quizzing by detectives the man who fired the near-fatal bullet said his name was John Schrank, formerly a saloon proprietor at 370 East 10th street, New York. Search of the would-be assassin's pockets dis closed a note written by himself which purports to be an affidavit concerning "revelations" seen in a dream. He states in the dream he saw William McKiiiley standing in the garb of a monk pointing to Roosevelt and saying, "This is my murderer. Avenge my death." At the Auditorium when Roosevelt opened his speech, he said he did not "care a rap" about the shooting. "It is not enough to discourage v Bull Moose," he said. Schrank's bullet was fired fairly deep into the colonel's body. With his clothing soaked with blood his whole nervous and physical makeup profoundly shocked, the former president held himself ill hand, his first thought being to save his would-be slayer from mob violence. "Don't hurt him," Roosevelt shouted. "Bring this man to me." » Schi-ank was turned over to the police, and except for a severe choking administered by Colonel Cecil Lyon of Texas, Roosevelt's friend, he escaped in jury. Colonel Roosevelt arrived in Milwaukee at 6 p. m. yesterday and dined at the Gilpatrick hotel. After wards he was escorted to an automobile by Henry Cochems, Philip Roosevelt, cousin of the former •president; Elbcrt Martin and Colonel Cecil Lyon. Contrary to the usual custom, the colonel was al lowed to enter the machine first. Then the others followed. Roosevelt was standing in the tonneau when the shot was fired. The colonel swayed back and forth for a fraction of a minute, then quickly recovered himself. Colonel Quiets Crowd. ' "—"" Hundreds of excited men stand ing near shouted: "Lynch him! Let's string him up!" Colonel Roosevelt raised his hand for silence. All save Cecil Lyon, who pressed down hard on Schrank's windpipe until his eyes bulged, turned to the form er president. Roosevelt called Lyon by name, shouting: "Don't do that! Let the fellow alone!" The colonel then admonished the crowd not to resort to vio lence, but to let the law take Its course. Lyon, Cochems, Martin and Captain A. O. Girard, a former Rough Rider, then rushed the prisoner to a hotel kitchen, where he was held until the police ar rived. $10,000 Mortgage For Sale On close In Improved property. Buildings In sured for $12,500. De tails at our office. Calvin Philips &Co. ill California Bid*. Mala %t Makes His Speech. Despite the entreties of his friends, the colonel ordered the chauffeur to proceed to the Auda torlum where he insisted on speaking. Cochems introduced the former president, advising the crowd that the colonel's wound was not serious. As the former chief executive, pale but deter mined, rose to speak, Philip Roosevelt, a cousin of the colonel, was visibly excited. "Stop, please, Theodore,' he begged. Roosevelt's Jaw set. "I won't stop," he shouted. "I'll deliver this speech or d4e In the attempt." Then the colonel plunged Into a sixty minute attack on Gover nor Woodrow Wilson, Senator La Follette and the platforms of the old parties. In closing his ad dress, Roosevelt begged his hear ers to join him in a "general movement for more kindness, more charity and more generos ity to bring nearer the day of so cial and Industrial justice. Goes to Hospital. Following his speech, which was one of the most telling of his Middle Western trip, Colonel Roosevelt walked to the operating room of the emergency hospital. Dr. Joseph Bloodgood of Balti more, Dr. Terrell, the colonel's physician, and Dr. 8. P -Boreo son of Racine, Wis., were waiting with an X-ray machine. Laughing and joking, the form er president lay down on the op erating table. The examination showed that a 38 caliber bullet had lodged in the wall of the right Chest Immediaely below the tenth rib. It seemed inadvisable, however, to probe for the bullet until the colonel could reach Chi cago. After the examination the colonel retired to hist private car, shaved himself and went to bed. He was soon Bound asleep. Think* of Wife. When he arrived at the hospital Roosevelt's first thought was for Mrs. Roosevelt. He dictated a message, telling her that his con dition was excellent. Telegrams of sympathy and congratulation over his escape from death, poured In -on the wounded man today. Burt Miller of Cleveland tele graphed: "You have been wounded In the same battle for human rights in which William McKinley, my uncle, lost his life. May you live to carry forward the righteous war." Johnson Sends Message. Hiram \V. Johnson, governor of California and Roosevelt's run ning mate on the progressive na tional ticket, wired as follows: "All rejoice at your Provident escape. May God be with you always as tonight." Secretary of the Interior Wal ter L. Fisher telegraphed from the Yosemlte National park, Cal-» ilornia, his J/mpathy and condol ence. TAFT SENDS A WIRELESS TO COLONEL (By United Press Leased Wire.) ABOARD THE YACHT MAY FLOWER, New York Harbor, via wireless, Oct. 15. —President Taft today sent a wireless message to Colonel Roosevelt, expressing his deepest sympathy. The meesage said: "I am greatly shocked to hear of this outrageous and deploralilo assault upon you. I earnestly hope and pray that your recovery will be speedy and without suf fering." In a wireless message to Mrs. Roosevelt the president said: "I wish to extend my heartfelt sympathy to you in your present distress. I earnestly hoi>e and pray that you, your family and the colonel may be promptly re lieved of all suspense by the news that all danger is past." NEW YORK, Oct. 15. —Satis- fled with the reassuring message received from her husband last night regarding his condition, Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt, wife of the progressive candidate for president, who was shot by a crank in Milwaukee, was still asleep at the residence of J. West Roosevelt here at 8:30 o'clock this mornihng. When Mrs. Roosevelt was awakened and told that the colonel was to be oper ated on in Chicago this morning she demanded full details and then announced she might leave for Chicago at once. Mrs. Roosevelt dressed and hur ried to progressive headquarters here, where she expected to com plete her plans for the day. CHICAGO, Qct. 15.—Colonel Roosevelt at the hospital this morning remarked that, "It would take a lead of larger caHber than that to hurt a progressive. It would take a Howitzer to kill a bull moose. Didn't you know that?" Roosevelt insisted that he was feeling fine, saying: "I will be out In 24 hours cam paigning again If they will let me have my way. I feel great and could deliver a speech right now if the doctors would let me get up." PAT MIAMI'S SPKAKS FOB I'ROORKSSIVRK W. H. Paulhamus was the prin cipal speaker at a lively progres sive meeting at Valhalla hall last night. Paulhamus declared he was for the progressive ticket from top to bottom. He declared conditions were such that the peo ple demand a change from the old regime represented by the repub lican and democratic parties. Paulhamus will speak again to night at Klang's hall, and tomor row night at Spanaway. He will devote his time the rest of the campaign to the progressive ticket. TACOMA, WASHINGTON.TUESDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1912. Many Pictures Show Colonel In Many Poses HIS PHYSICIANS FEAR TO PROBE FOR BULLET FIRED BY WOULD-BE ASSASSIN (By United Press Leased Wire.) CHICAGO, Oct. 15.—Fearing that an immediate probe for the bullet would increase the danger to the patient, the surgeons at Mercy hospital here th is afternoon decided not to operate on Colonel Theo dore Roosevelt, who was shot by a crank in Milwaukee last night, for at least three or four days. Th» physicians do not care to take any chances, and prefer to give their distinguished patient's system an opportunity to react from the shock before they start probing for the bullet DANGER OF BLOOD POISONING Physicians agreed today that the greatest danger now lies in blood poisoning. The bullet was fired from a rusty revolver, and it is possible that some infection was deposited in the wound. The bullet struck the right nipple after it had passed through the colonel's overcoat and a thick bundle of manu script, the speech he had intended to deliver at the Auditorium, and his spectacle case SAVED BY MANUSCRIPT The manuscript probably saved the colonel from instant death. The bullet passed through it, clipped the end of the spectacle case and entered the body below the tenth rib. Colonel Roosevelt, propped up in bed, spent the morning reading from volumes of sociology, revo lution and economics. I Mrs. Alice Longworth, daughter of the former p resident, is expected to arrive from Cincinnati this afternoon. The colonel's private car, which was side-tracked here with his arrival, has been completely aban doned. The reporters flocked to the hospital, but the newspapermen became so numerous that the hos pital authorities ordered them off the premises. They were not even allowed to enter the hospital yard. i Rooscevlt's injury is serious enough to keep him oft' the road for the remainder of the campaign. This was the announcement made here shortly after 10 o'clock today by the surgeons at Mercy hospital, who are to probe for the bullet later in tin day. : .... J, When the colonel is able "to leavs Chicago, it was announced, he will go direct to Oyster Bay to stay there until he is completely recovered. The sur geons told Roosevelt that he must remain quiet for several weeks in order to insure complete recovery. To this he reluctantly agreed. . Colonel Roosevelt was taken into the operating room at 7:30 o'clock, where he was examined by Dr. John B. Murphy and Dr. A. J. Ochsncr. Later Dr. Murphy issued the following statement: , "We have located the exact course of the bullet and have definitely determined that it did not touch a vital spot. Colonel Roosevelt's life is in no dan ger." ■ Later a bulletin that Colonel Roosevelt would be unable to make further campaign speeches, was re vised to say that, if he recovers sufficiently at Oys ter Bay, he may return to New York to address a meeting in Madison Square Garden about October 26. The Rev. Edward Bateman, an army chaplain and personal friend, was the first person Colonel Roose velt asked for today. The colonel ate a hearty breakfast of bacon, eggs, toast and tea. OHiOAGO, Oct. 15.—The special train bearing Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, who was shot by a crank in Milwaukee last night, arrived here at 3:30 o'clock this morning. The train was placed on a siding, the colonel sleeping until 6 o'clock, when he was awakened and taken to Mercy hospital. He reached there at 6:15 o'clock, accompanied by his cousin, Philip Roosevelt, Secretary McCrath and Several physicians. The surgeons are now in consultation, prepara tory to performing an operation for the removal of the bullet. SLANDEROUS PUBLICATIONS TO BLAME SAYS ROOSEVELT (lly I'MI tod I'n-ss Leased Wire.) MILWAUKEE, Oct. 15.—"1t is ' MfritTy natural thing," said Roose flfelt in hi« speech here l«tst night, "that weak and vicious minds Should lie Inflamed to acts "of vio lence by the kind of foul men dacity and abuse that has been heH|>ed upon me for the last three months by the papers not only In the Interest of Mis. Delis, but of Mr. Taft and Mrs. Wilson. Friends, I will disown and re pudiate any man of my party who attacks with such vile, foul slan der and abuse my opponents of «any other party. • "Now, I wish to say seriously to the speakers and to the news papers representing the republi can, democratic and socialist par tips that they cannot month in and month out, make the kind of slanderous, bitter and malevolent assaults that they have made and not expect that brutal and violent characers, especially when the j brutality in Accompanied by a> none too strong mind, will be ud aSected by it. "I am sot speaking for myself at all. I give you my word Ido uot care a rap about being shot ■—-not a rap. I have had a good many experiences In my time and this is only one of them. What I do care for is my country. I wish I wore able to impress on our people the duty to feel strong ly, but to speak truthfully of their opponents. I say now I have never said on the stump one wore against any opponent that 1 would ot defend In the library. I have said nothing that I could not substantiate and nothing I ought not to have said." Theodore Roosevelt, ex president, most noted Ameri can and most popular states man of modern times, will be 54 years old October 27. Three presidents, Lincoln, Garfield and McKinley, have fallen victims to the bullets of aitsasslas, but Roosevelt Is the first ex-president to be attacked. LATEST BULLETINS CHICAGO, Oct. 15.At 1 o'clock this afternoon his physi clans issued v Nfnfeinont that CDl.ltooaerett'a temperature was »8.8, his pulse 02 anil bin respiration normal. (liy United I'lt'SK I,Oil sod Wire.) CHICAGO, Oct. 15.— Physicians in attendance on Colonel Roosevelt at Mercy hospital lion- is.sued at 10:30 o'clock today tho following bulletin: "There is a deep bullet wound in Colcnel Roosevelt's chest wall, but the bullet struck no vital organ In transit. The wound has not been probed. The point where the bullet entered is one inch to the right and one inch below the level of the right nipple. The bullet ranged upward and inward for four inches into the chest wall. There is no evidence that it penetrated the lung. "Colonel Roosevelt's pulse at this hour is 90.2, his respiration 20. No operation to remove the bullet Is indicated at the present time. Colonel Roosevelt's condition is hopeful, but the wound is so important as to demand absolute rest for a number of days. • i "JOHN B. MURPHY, "ARTHUR ItEVON, "R. 0. SAYLE, "SCURRY TERRELL, Attending Physicians. MRS. ROOSEVELT GOES TO HUSBAND'S BEDSIDE (lly t'nlu-d Press Incased Wire.) NSW YORK, Oct. 15.—"1 am shocked by the occurrence but nevertheless ho[>eful," said Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt here today, as she, accompanied by her son, Theodore, jr., and her daughter, Miss Ethel Roosevelt, started for Chicago to be at the bedside of the former president. "The latest word from my hus band that lie i.s in no danger has greatly allayed," Mm. Rooeevelt. added. "I want him brought to our home In Oyster Bay." The party left over the New York Central railroad. Dr. Lam bert accompanied them. Reassuring messages of the nature of her hugl>and's wound was given Mrs. Theodore Roose velt here today by Dr. Franklin Lambert, Mrs. Roosevelt's physi cian. He talked with Mrs. Roose velt for more than an hour, en CRANK PLEADS GUILTY; IS SORRY HE FAILED TO KILL MILWAUKEE, Wls., Oct. 15.— John Schrank, the supposedly in sane New Yorker, pleaded guilty when arraigned in the district court here today for attempting to assassinate Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, the progressive candi date for president, in front of the Gilpatrick hotel here last night. The prisoner was held In $•">, --000 bail for the next term of the municipal court, which convenes December 10. MILWAUKEE, Wls., Oct. 15.— John Schrank, the undersized German laundry worker of New York city who attempted to as sa ainate Colonel Roosevelt here last ulght would add but little today to his earlier statements. He persisted that his attempt on the colonel's life was prompted by a dream in which the late Presi dent William McKluley appeared and told him that Colonel Roose velt was his slayer. Schrank slept soundly throughout the night and his present predicament seems to give no uneasiness. He said he bad folowed Colonel Roosevelt about since September 12 wait ing for an opportunity to end ths former president's life. Schrank said he was boru at SO CENTS A MONTH. deavorlng to convince her that her husband is not in danger. D»> spite his efforts, Mrs. Roosevelt's? nerves are unstrung. Asked whether she was ta con. dition to go to Chicago, Dr. Lam bert said: ,■ "Any woman is always in con* * ditlon to make any trip, once abe makes up her mind to go. Mj*. Roosevelt will not decide about going to her husbands' bedside until she learns the details of th.;s;v'f; At the time of the shooting Schrank was dressed in ■ a light > gray.suit,- and wore a light over coat. He was unperturbed today r and made light of bis position, i He joked and talked freely with }> all who came within range of his voice. ;*'.'.;■;- v . <^*SS^fei~:f j- "I am sorry that I failed in my purpose," be said this morning. "I believe if I bad killed^Roose^J^ velt I X would ; have performed a great service to . the ; country. .; Ii;; --cam e. to ', Milwaukee | last I Sunday, and registered at the Argyle ho tel :as Walter Ron«.'^k£^*4liffi*H . Schrank will be held here until ,v the time of the bearing and 5 the date of his trial SS is determined. The] panaltjifof i his offense, pro viding Rooeev«lt recovers;,^ is Hft^ yeMtilajpriiim. I!^!©^-:-*^ , p