ROOSEVELT WOUNDED.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 45, 16 October 1912, Page 5

ROOSEVELT WOUNDED.

SHOT AT BY SOCIALIST. A CRANK NAMED SCHRANK. (By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (United Press Association.) Milwaukee, October 14. A Socialist shot Mr Roosevelt. The wound is not likely to be fatal. WITH BULLET IN BODY. PLUCKILY ADDRESSES MEETING. New York, October 15. Mr Roosevelt was wounded in the breast. He was shot outside his hotel when en route to deliver a political address at the Milwaukee Auditorium. He refused to allow the doctors examine him, and spoke :to a huge meeting with the bullet still in his body. Towards the end of his address he became weak from loss of blood, and was removed to his hotel. His assailant disappeared. WOUND NOT FATAL. "TOO MUCH FUSS MADE." New York, October 15. Mr Roosevelt was removed to a temporary hospital. His wound is pronounced to be not fatal. He declares that too much fuss is being made about a trifling matter. The announcement, while the meeting was in progress, that Roosevelt had been shot threw the audience into a panic. The chairman begged them to remain calm, and Mr Roosevelt continued his speech. He was visibly weaker towards the close, and the audience frantically cheered iuim when V.e refused to sit down. Mrs Roosevlt heard the news while attending a theatre in New York. MOB ATTEMPTS LYNCHING, Mr Roosevelt's assailant is named John Schrank. He was a resident of Now York. The mob tried to lynch him, but the police prevented him. When arrested he declared that any man seeking a third iter m of office ought to be shot. When searched at the pclice station; documents were found in his possession showing that he bad had a dream, * wherein President McKinley's spirit had visited him and indicated Roosevelt as McKinley's murderer, and asked hinVt&ijtnlte vengeance on Roosevelt. Schrank is undoubtedly crazy.