The Attempted Assassination of ex-President Theodore Roosevelt

The Attempted Assassination of ex-President?by Oliver Remey and Henry Cochems and Wheeler Bloodgood

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Title: The Attempted Assassination of ex-President Theodore Roosevelt
Author: Oliver Remey Henry Cochems Wheeler Bloodgood
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[Illustration: THEODORE ROOSEVELT].

THE ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION
of
EX-PRESIDENT
Theodore Roosevelt

Written, Compiled, and Edited by
OLIVER E. REMEY HENRY F. COCHEMS WHEELER P. BLOODGOOD

Published by
THE PROGRESSIVE PUBLISHING COMPANY of Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Copyright. 1912, by O. E. Remey, Milwaukee

LIBRARY EDITION.
A Library Edition of this book is in the hands of the printers and will be issued shortly.
This edition will be bound in hard cover. The volume will be neatly bound and suitable for public and private libraries.
The Library Edition will be limited in number.
Those who desire a copy will be mailed a copy as soon as the edition is off the press, if they will send one dollar to the Progressive Publishing Company of Milwaukee, Wis., Room 600 Caswell Block, Milwaukee.
The demand for this edition is rapidly exhausting it.

THIS HISTORICAL NARRATIVE IS DEDICATED TO EX-PRESIDENT THEODORE ROOSEVELT THE GREATEST AMERICAN OF HIS TIME.

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
PAGE.
Theodore Roosevelt Frontispiece
Shirts Worn by the Ex-President 18
Page of Ex-President's Manuscript 24
X-Ray Photograph Showing Bullet 32
John Flammang Schrank 40
Page One of Schrank's Letter 50
Page Two of Schrank's Letter 60
Capt. A. O. Girard 70
Elbert E. Martin 80
Automobile in Which Ex-President Roosevelt Was Shot 90
Johnston Emergency Hospital 100
Judge August C. Backus 110
District Attorney Winifred C. Zabel 120
Dr. Joseph Colt Bloodgood 130
Dr. R. G. Sayle 140
John T. Janssen, Chief of Police 150
Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt 160
Members of Sanity Commission 170
Hotel Gilpatrick 180
Schrank in County Jail 190
Henry F. Cochems 199
James G. Flanders, Schrank's Attorney 236

TABLE OF CONTENTS.
PAGE.
Preface 9
Chronology 11
Chapter I.
The Shot is Fired 15
Chapter II.
Speaks to Great Audience 25
Chapter III.
Roosevelt in the Emergency 51
Chapter IV.
Careful of Collar Buttons 57
Chapter V.
Arrival at Mercy Hospital 64
Chapter VI.
Gets Back into Campaign 74
Chapter VII.
Back at Sagamore Hill 82
Chapter VIII.
Arrest, Appears in Court 91
Chapter IX.
Appears in Municipal Court 99
Chapter X.
Schrank Declared Insane 105
Chapter XI.
Shows Repentance But Once 112
Chapter XII.
Schrank Before Chief 117
Chapter XIII.
Witnesses of the Shooting 132
Chapter XIV.
A Second Examination 153
Chapter XV.
Report of the Alienists 192
Chapter XVI.
Finding of the Alienists 195
Chapter XVII.
Schrank Describes Shooting 202
Chapter XVIII.
Conclusion of Commission 208
Chapter XIX.
Schrank Discusses Visions 210
Chapter XX.
Schrank's Defense 213
Chapter XXI.
Schrank's Unwritten Laws 224
Chapter XXII.
Unusual Court Precedent 235

PREFACE.
At 8:10 o'clock on the night of Oct. 14, 1912, a shot was fired the echo of which swept around the entire world in thirty minutes.
An insane man attempted to end the life of the only living ex-president of the United States and the best known American.
The bullet failed of its mission.
Col. Theodore Roosevelt, carrying the leaden missile intended as a pellet of death in his right side, has recovered. He is spared for many more years of active service for his country.
John Flammang Schrank, the mad man who fired the shot, is in the Northern Hospital for the Insane at Oshkosh, Wis., pronounced by a commission of five alienists a paranoiac. If he recovers he will face trial for assault with intent to kill.
This little book presents an accurate story of the attempt upon the life of the ex-president. The aim of those who present it is that, being an accurate narrative, it shall be a contribution to the history of the United States.
This book is written, compiled and edited by Henry F. Cochems, Chairman of the national speakers' bureau of the Progressive party during the 1912 campaign, and who was with Col. Roosevelt in the automobile when the ex-president was shot, Wheeler P. Bloodgood, Wisconsin representative of the National Progressive committee, and Oliver E. Remey, city editor of the Milwaukee Free Press, who necessarily followed all incidents of the shooting closely.
The story told is an historical narrative in the preparation of which accuracy never has been lost sight of.

CHRONOLOGY.
October 14, 1912--At 8:10 o'clock P.M., John Flammang Schrank, of New York, a paranoiac, shoots ex-President Theodore Roosevelt in the right side with a 38-caliber bullet as the ex-President is standing in an automobile in front of Hotel Gilpatrick, Milwaukee. Schrank is immediately arrested, after a struggle to recover the revolver and protect him from violence. Col. Roosevelt, bleeding from his wound, is driven to the Auditorium, Milwaukee, and speaks to an audience of 9,000 for eighty minutes. Immediately after his speech he is taken to the