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SAM ANTONIO fcXPRESS: TUESDAY MORNING. OCTOBER 15, 1912.
for a long while—in fact, he had the Colonel's itinerary written on a sheet of
note paper of a southerly hotel.
The man is, without doubt, demented. Two insane "proclamations" were
ftund on his person, in which is set forth that it is his duty to kill any man
vho aspired to a third term.
Quick action on the part of bystanders alone saved him from sudden and
violent death.
He was hustled to the police station, where he at first refused to reveal his
identity and reiterated time and again that he was justified in killing the Colo-
nel and was sorry that he had not done so.
PLOT NOURISHED LOMi.
He said that he had been trying to get a chance to fire the shot that would
remove Roosevelt from the world for a long while, but had been unable to get
an opportunity.
He had picked Saturday night, in Chicago at the Coliseum, as the proper
time and place for his act, but the crowd was so enormous that he could not
get within reach of his victim.
Before 10 o'clock a tremendous crowd of people who were yelling for the
unknown's blood appeared in front of the Milwaukee jail and their numbers
and persistence so alarmed the officers that, fearing a lynching, they removed
him to some hiding place where he will be safe from mob vengeance.
The prisoner said he had been following the Colonel for three weeks. He
refused to give his address, but said he was in Chicago yesterday and this was
the first time he was ever in Milwaukee.
He said in answer to a question as to why he wanted to murder Colonel
Roosevelt that any man ought to be murdered who wanted a third term in
office for the presidency or otherwise.
He said the Culonel had escaped him a dozen times. He had written on
a piece of paper the following list of cities and hotels, perhaps his itinerary:
September 28, Charleston, S. C., Mosley House; Augusta, Ga., Plainters;
Atlanta, Ga., Childs Hotel; Birmingham, Ala., Plaza; Chattanooga, Tenn., Red-
it ond; Rome, Ga.. Third Avenue; Nashville,, Union Station Hotel.
AVHUIiE SHOT WAS Ft FUJI).
The shooting occurred in the street in
front <-f the Hotel Gilpatrick. Colonel
Koosevelt run lied Milwaukee shortly after
H.o'clock and, making his way through the
crowd which had gathered at the station,
flfiterod an automobile and was driven
t& the hotel lie took dinner iu a private
(JJnlnir room with the members of the
{Wrty on his private car. After dinner.
CulongJ K<M.-rvelt ent to his room on
the second flo r of the hotel ajid shortly
before s m" lot k he started fuV the audi-
torium. llix ;111romot»i 1 e stood in front
of 1 <lt r aud about it wast a big
or wil. waiting to catch a glimpse of the
C'i>1.*!U'| .is h* started off.
With tl«> i 'olonel were Phillip Roose-
v'a ; 1 uiiir cousin. Mr. CocUems, Mr.
V niri and Captain (Jirard.
riic <" avd pressed close about the Col-
«)|,,,1 I u.r.' ;i rhoer jjs ho appeared. As
C" pirn approached the automobile
' 1 • «'l ]«' . ». ii s companions stood aside
and h<- stepped into the car. Martin en
l' ed fiir.t iI behind him and sat on the
further aide of the car.
ASSASSIN Flit ICS.
Colonel IJ< * sevelt stood up. waving his
bat in .ii, \ r l«» 'lie .-peers of the crowd
Tim im« ., in w is standing in the crowd
» few r "t from the automobile He
I" hod In to tlie side of the car
and, raisins: hi* pin. fired.
M.trti i ; iped ov.-p the car a second
nfter the bn . 'I sped on its way. Colonel
If., tseve t i ■ • 11 • I % moved as the shot was
fired. Ilefore the crowd knew wlmt had
happen..I Martin. who $i\- fcrt tuil
iinil a 't'oiim-i football player, had landed
S'Oiareb • n the asMispin's sbouidrrs and
hud b. i'Ue htm t-- th* ground
If threw his rttflit arm about th* man's
ihe Colonel's action that he was in no
| >. rious danger, the people settled back
:nji' their scats to hear Lis speech.
I Colonel Booaevelt began to speak in *
i firm voice, somewhat lower thau its n>u il
| tone, and except that his characterise
gestures were less emphatic thau usual
there was nothing about the man to indi ! the autonu
I rate his condition After he had bee i ; to the front.
speaking a few moments*, however, his
voice sank somewhat aud he seemed t<»
stand rather ousteadily. Dr. Terrell ami
Colonel Lyon stepped up to hnu and tni*
doctor iusisted that he
LISTENS Ti» XU ONE.
"i'm going to finisli this speech," - ti.i
the Colonel emphatically. "I'm all ri~lit,
let me alone."
L>r. Terrell and Colonel Lyon sat down
ufpitn. The Colonel contiuued his speed,
with increasing effort, biu
from his room in the second story and
^ d passed through a cheering tlirong in
the mam corridor, accompanied by a
growing escort, as he ntared the loor.
"Arriving ai tlu < urb, Colonel Roosevelt
• xtended his hands toward the frame of
the duurwij tu ihe rear compartment of
, his body inclining slightly
it was just (is ii. was ris-
lontobile that the shot was
mg into tin
tiled.
'Colonel Koosexelt va\e no indication
bv any ini'v. ;u»Mit that he telt the im-
pact of th** bullet, but there was a sound
as though of a groan coming from his
direction.
"A moment alter the shot Colonel
Kooseve't put his rig.it hand in his over-
coat Well up near the shoulder on the
left side and rubbed il slightly. Then he
car. Some one ordered
the chauffeur to drive 011. The machine
moved out."
e\i ieutly with iucreasing effort, but L. . .... . . tl
■uccecdtd in making ntiuself licanl. an 1' J.»,. ,!
talked for mere than an "hour. Then Le
was rpsued to his automobile aud fl.isl:ed ,
througltx the streets to the eiue.gotu: | ASSASSIN IS STriJBOHN.
ho.spMal. 1 lie operating room had ee-»n , assassin was hurried out of the
P*ared in retdluess to reeeive < olon. i I 1 rowd He was half i arned through the
Kuost veil hi u six of the leading surg<ous| corridor ol the hotel into the dining-room
oi* Miiue were avaiiiug his arr... 1
"1 do not ( are a rap about being shot
not a lap, said Colonel Roosevelt to-
night ai the auditorium. "Friends,'' he;
j began, 1 sliali have to ask you to be
I quiet as possible. 1 don't know whether !
sou fully understand that I have just
j been shot, but it takes more than that to
kill a bull moose. Fortunately, I had m> 1
manuscript (holding up the manuscript
ami showing the audience where the but- |
iet hud gone through) so you see 1 was j
going to make a long speech and, friends, !
! the hole in it is where the bullet went
i ivic in ii ia uri t* uie uuurt. \\ 1 hi " 1 ^11«•
through, and it probably saved the bullet a roJ)t
and thui to the kitchen, when he was
put through a hurried and pressing in-
tern '.cation L\ l'olice Sergeunt ^iooney
and ot icrs. lie declined to give his name
and finally was slipped out of the rear
doer of tic? hotel into the alley, where
the police wagon had been summoned to
receive him
Hundreds of persons followed the pa-
trol wagon as it was driven at breakneck
speed down the streets. Men end boys
ran shouting behind the wagon and cry-
ing:
'Lynch him; kill tin* brute!'' and "get
neck v
lefi
revolt i:
Mm
<'uloi
ea hlike grip, and with his
I r*io hand that held tbe
another second ho disarmed
oerelf stood <*alm1y looking
"'i ' t H 'ttilng bud happened. Mar-
p; , • ' i.1h! man up as though he
v ere 1 .id, and earned him i.e feu
f t " 1 li separated I hern from the ear,
almost to the - ale ..f i he Colonel.
"Here he Is," said Martin "Look at
him, Colonel."
This happened within h few seconds
and i i.»nel it veit stood gazing rather
cttriousJv at the man before the stunned
crowd realised what was going ou. Then
u how 1 of rage went up.
Muii CKIES FOIl VKNGEARCE.
•'Lynch him! Kill him!" cried a hundred
diim The crowd pressed in on the man
and Martin ami Captain Girard, who had
followed Mmrtin over the side of the car.
were e- light with their prisoner in the
n idst of a stm«gliDg throng ot mnddened
men. It seemed f'»i' tbe moment that he
would lu torn f.o pieces, and it was Col-
onel Ho seveit himself who intervened on
his behalf
!b raised his hand and motioned to
owl t< fall back.
p. stop," Ue cried; "stajid 'back,
th.
doi
fell
tain
i i the crowd at fir^t were not
' i.eed his words, but at length
] permitted Martin and Cap-
id to carry the man into the
er a short struggle the assassin
1 was carried without resis-
> t the reach of the crowd.
! hurt, Colonel?" a hundred
responded be, with a smile.
hting
vjck
Or
S31
" l 1'ke a fighling: cock "
ii the e* prension of the man
v/ith an active liver — he
tack.es fus work with vim
t.e is successful —nine times
out of fen you will find he
take*
Tint's Pills
which hav?. been used by a
million people with satisfac-
tory recj!: At your drug-
giit's—ii f :tr coated or plain.
"Missed me that lime. I'm Dot hurt a
bit."
"I think we'd better be going on." he
said to the other members of his party,
"or we will be late."
No one in the party, excepting Roose-
velt himself, entertained the slightest no-
tion thai he, tue Colonel, had been shot,
lie felt no shock or pain at the time and
it was assumed that the bullet went wild,
As soon as Colonel Uoosevelt had assured
himself tin assassin was safe iu the
hands of the police, he gave orders to
drive to the auditorium.
They had driven hardly one of the
four blocks, when John McGrath, another
of Colonel Roosevelt's secretaries, uttered
a sharp exclamation and pointed to the
Colonel s breast.
* Look, Colonel," he said, "there is a
hole in you i overcoat."
REVKALS BLOOD STAINS.
Colonel Roosevelt looked down, saw the
hole, then unbuttoned the big browu army
coat which he was weariug and thrust his'
hand beneath it. When he withdrew it,
nis fingers were stained with blood,
Colonel Roosevelt was undismayed by
his discovery.
"It looks as though I had been hit,"
he said, "but I don't thiuk it is anything
serious."
lir. Scurry Terrell of Dallas, Tex., Col-
onel Roosevelt's physician, who entered
I he automobile just before It started off,
Insisted that the Colonel return to the
hotel. He paid no attention to the sug-
gestion, however, and the car was driven
on to tho auditorium.
As soon as they reached the building,
Colonel Roosevelt was taken into a dress
ing room aud his outergarinents removed."
Dr. Terrell, with the help of two other
doctors who were in the auditorium, came
to the dressing room on a call from the
platform and made a superficial examina-
tion. They agreed it was impossible to
hazard a guess as to the extent of the
Colonel's injuries and that he should by
alJ means go iit once to a hospital.
"I will deliver this speech or die, one
or the other," was Colonel Roosevelt's
reply.
COLONEL STARTS SPEECH.
Despite the protests of his physicians,
Colonel Roosevelt stepped out of ilie dress-
ing room and outo the Stage A large
crowd packed into the big building cheer-
ed loudly as he entered and, without a
word to indicate what had happened,
went to his seat.. For several minutes
the crowd, no man of whom suspected
ibat the Colonel bore a bullet iu his body,
kept up its cheering.
"I want lo give the people nil that is
:n me. it may be my last message,"
Tins was e.nonel Roosevelt's last word
bel'ore he stepped on to the platform at
the auditorium to make his speech to-
night. He was talking with llenry F.
Cocliems, who was doing his best to pre-
vent the colonel trom making the speech.
Mr. Cochem.s aid that immediately aft-
er Schrenk had been carried into the
hotel he placed his hand on the Colonel's
shoulder, pushed him down into Ills seat
and urgeo the v go at once to a hospital.
"The Colonel was not a bit alarmed,"
said Mr. Cocherrts, "when he found he
was bleedirr-h 'I guess the bullet entered
my body all right,' lie said, 'but let's
drive on to the hall. I'm feeling pretty
good.' "
Then Mr. .Cochems stopepd to the front
of the platform aud held up his hand.
There was something in his manner which
had Its effect upon the crowd and the
cheering died suddenly away.
"I have something to tell you." said
Mr. Cochems, "and I hope you will re-
eeive the news with calmness."
His voice shook as he spoke and a
deathlike stillness settled over the throng
"< olonel Roosevelt has been shot.. lie
Is wounded," lie spoke in a b»w tone, but
Ktieh was the stillness that everyone
heard him. A cry of astonishment and
horror went up from tbe crowd, wbioi
was thrown into confusion In an instant.
Mr. Cochems turned una looked inquiring-
ly at Colonel Kooseveli.
"Tell us, are you hurt?"
Men and w nnen shouted wildly. Home
of them rose from their seats and rushed
forward to look more close!) at the
(.'olonel.
ROOSEVELT yi'lET.S CRuWD.
Colonel Roosevelt rose and walked to
the edge of the platform to quiet the
crowd, lie raised his hand and instantly
there was silence.
"it's true," be said. Then slowly ho
unbuttoned his coat and placed his hand
on his breast. Those in the front of the
crowd could catch sight of the blood-
stained garmeuts. I'm going to ask
yon to he very quiet," said Colonel Roost*
velt, "and please excuse me from making
you r very long speech. 1 11 do the best I
can, but you see there's a bullet iu iu>
body But It's nothing. I'm not hurt
badly."
The crowd gave an outburst of tumultu-
ous cheering. Thoroughly reassured by
trom going into my heart. Tbe bullet is
n me now, so that 1 cannot make as lon:
i speech as 1 would like.
NOT THINKING OF DEATH
"First of all, I want to say this about
j myself. 1 have altogether too many im-
| portant things to think of to pay anj
I heed or feel any concern over my own
I death. Now, I would not speak to you
insincerely within five minutes of being
shot. 1 am telling you the lltentl truth
when 1 say that my concern is for many
other things. It is not in the least for
my own life.
"1 want you to understand that I am
ahead of the game anyway. No man has
a happier life than 1 have, a happier life
in every way. 1 have been able to do
certain things that I greatly wished to
do and 1 am Interested in doing other
things, i can tell you with absolute
truthfulness that I am very much unin-
terested In whether I am shot or not
It was just as when 1 was colonel of
my regiment.
I always felt that a private was to be
excused for feeling at times some pangs
of anxiety about his personal safety, but
1 cannot understand a man fit to be
colonel who can pay any heed to his per-
sonal safety when he is occupied, as he
ought to be occupied, with the absorbing
desire to do his duty.
"I am in this cause with my whole
heart and soul; I believe in the progres-
sive movement, a movement for the bet-
terment of mankind; the movement for
making life a little easier for all of our
people; a movement to try to take the
ourdens off the man, and especially off
the women iu this country, who is mosc
oppressed.
HOPES FOR SUCCESS.
"I am absorbed in tho success of that
movement. 1 feel uncommonly proud in
belonging to that movement Friends. I
ask you now this afternoon to accept
what 1 am saying as absolute truth when
I tell vou I am not thinking of my own
success; I am not thinking of my lifo oi
of anything connected with mo person-
ally.
I an. saying this by way of introduc-
tion becam e I want to say something very
serious to our people and especially to
the newspapers l don't, know who the
man was w ho shot me tonight. He was
seized by ono of my stenographers. Mr.
Martin, and I shppose Is in the hands of
the police now. He shot, to kill nie. j am
just going to show you."
colonol Roosevelt then unbuttoned bis
coat and vest and .»how«\1 his white shirt
badly stained with blood.
"Now friends I am going to be as quiet
rS possible," he Continued, "because 1 an
uot able to givo the challenge of bull
moose quite as loudly. Now, I do not
know who he was or whet party he
represented. He was a coward. He stood
In the darkness In the crowd around the
automobile and when they cheered me
and I got up to bow, ho stepped forward
and shot me in the breast
BLAMES NEWSPAPERS.
"It is a very natural thing that weak
and vicious minds should be Inflamed to
acts of violence by the kind of loul men-
dacity and abuse that have been beaded
upon me for the last three months by pa-
pers in the interests, not only of Mr.
Deb:-, but of Mr. Wilson and Mr. Taft.
"Friends, I will disown and repudiate
any man of my party who attacks with
such vile, foul slander and abuse any
opponents of any other party.
• Now, 1 wish to say seriously to the
speakers and to the newspapers repre-
senting both tho Republican and Demo-
crat and Socialistic parties that they can-
not make the kind of slanderous, bitter
and malevolent assaults that they have
made and not expect that bintal and vio-
lent characters-especially when the bru-
tality i.i accompanied by a not-too-strong
mind—they canr.ot expect that such na-
tures will bo unaffected by it.
'I am not speaking for myself at all,
1 give vou my word I do not care a rap
about lemg shot, not a. rap, I havo had
a good many experiences iri my time and
this is only on«> of them. What T do care
lor is my country. I wish I were able to
impress on our people the duty to feel
strongly, but to speak truthfully of their
opponents. I say now 1 have never said
"" "T ,H>!T? Z\ I wax "' tine Hke a madman, I,, did net keep
ponent that r could not substantiate and _ fi yM nir nnA tlia ho]n ^
nothing 1 ought not to have said, nothing
jpe!
He was put into a cell, where, after un
dergoing examination lie told nis story.
He said his plan to shoot Colonel Roose-
velt often was frusirateu.
His first plan was t » « itch the Roose-
velt party in New Orleans, he said, but
he found this was im ossible. He ac-
cordingly went to Charston. He left a
bag at the Mosely Ho e in that city,
which containd a revolver, a deed to
property on Eighty-first Street in New
York and lih naturalization papers.
The bair Is there now , he said. Not
being able to carry out his plan in
Charleston he proceeded to Atlanta, then
to Chattanooga and fr< i i there to Evans-
ville and Indianapolis and to Chicago. In
each of these cities he tried to shoot
Roosevelt but was unable to waylay him.
He decided to shoot him in Chicago but
missed him again.
TRAVELED AS WALTER ROSS.
During all this time lie had traveled
tinder the name ct Walter Koss. except at
Charleston where he ga\. his right name.
He came to Milwaukee Sunday morning.
He learned the Colonel was to be a
guest at the Gilpatrick and managed to
get in a pos.tion at the entrance.
Scnrenk said he was not sorry he car-
ried out his plan.
The man talked fluently and was will-
ing to answer most of the questions put
to him. He was well satisfied with hi-
deed. While being quizzed, lie sat easily
in a big leather chair and looked his
questioners squarely in the eye. After he
told his story he willingly went back to
a cell. Later several men accompanying
"olonel Roosevelt asked that they be al-
lowed to talk to the man.
COL. LYON TALKS TO PRISONER.
He was again led upstairs, where he
told tbe same story, lie did not become
confused Arlong those in the party was
Col. Cecil Lyon of Texas, who spoke to
the prisoner.
A large crowd had gathered at the po-
lice station before the patrol wagon ar
rived and was lined up along tho walk
to see him taken into the building.
Schrenk at first was frightened but. re-
gained courage when ho taw tho crowd
was not. large enough to take him froin
tbe office's.
In the neantime, hidden in an inner
room in the police station, Colonel Roose-
velt's assailant was being subjected to
a rigid examination. He r^fus^d * ub-
bornly to give an account of himself and
would say nothing ex,( cpt that "I will
tell you tomorrow.'
After a long siege, however, the police
forced from him the statement that, he
wa* John Schrenk ot iJiO East Tenth
Street. New York.
Clippings found In the man's pockets
showed he had studied Colonel Roose-
velt's Itinerary carefully with the evi-
dent Intention of selecting the place at
which he might accomplish what he had
in mind.
It was said at the Gilpatrick Hotel,
while Colonel Roosevelt was at dinner,
a short, dark man made frantic attempts
to gain admission to the dining room,
being turned away each time. Those who
saw him said that lie bore no resemblanco
to Schrenk. From this circumstance the
report gained currency that two men
wero engaged in the attempt to take
Colonel Roosevelt's life. The police to-
night were unable to gain any evidence
to bear out the theory.
MARTIN GIVES ACCOUNT.
Mr. Martin, to whom Colonel Roose-
velt perhaps owes his life, told the story
tonight of his adventure.
"I walked downstairs with the Colonel
and out to the car," he said, "and had
taken my seat before auything happened
As Colonel Itoosevelt was Htnuuiiig in the
ear waving his hat to the crowd, tbe flaso
of metal caught my eye, 1 did not stop
to think what I was doing, and before 1
really knew It Jumped over the side of the
ear and had my firm around the neck of a
man I had hardly seen. Everything
seemed to happen at once.
"There was a flash, a sound of a shot
and I was on the ground with the man. I
threw one arm about his neck and held
him fast. At the same time I caught his
gun hand with my free hand and wrenched
the revolver from him. He struggled for
mtnute, but. in spite of the fact that he
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1 hat. looking back, I would not say again
1 aoi all l'ignt."
Culonel Roosevelt was undressc! and
placoil upon the operating table, although
tin insisted tie was not badly hurt, and
tlmt the doctors were taking It too seri-
ously
An (xaralnntlon of the wound showed
(hat it hud Been made by a bullet ot
large size. It entered the fleshy part or
the rlRlit hrcast, half way between the
collar bone and upper rib. The, physi-
cians found that they knew no more after
their examination than before aS to the
location of tlie bullet, and It was dc-
cided to send for an X-ray machine to
determine to what depth the missile had
pencil a ted.
COLONETi TAT-KS POLITICS.
AVI lip ho was waiting for the X-ray
machine. Colonel Roosevelt sat upon the
operating table and talked politics and
joked with the physicians.
When Colonel Roosevelt left the hos-
pital, walking unassisted, there were only
a few persons-on the street.
"How are you feeling, Colonel?" said
one of the local committeemen.
"Fine," answered the Colonel, and as
he passed along he had a pleasant word
to say to those who greeted him in turn.
The Colonel was said to be resting In
his private car Mayflower when he lert
A newspaper reporter who saw the
shooting gave the following account:
"Colonel Roosevelt had just descended
up the fight long, and with the help ot
Captain Girard 1 soon had him under con-
trol.
" 'The poor creature," said the Colonel.
"I put the revolver Into my pocbet.and
began to drag the man out of the crowd.
I picU*'«l I lie man up and held him
where Coliinel Kouscvelt could see hljn.
"The Colonel saw the man was in dan-
ger and it was his act which saved him.
He told the crowd to stand hack and
they did. Captain Girard and I dragged
him into the hotel and turned him over
to tho police.
"We came back to the automobile and
started for the auditorium. As we were
riding along. McGrath called the Col-
onel's attention to a hole In his overcoat.
Colonel Roosevelt unbuttoned his coat.
COLONEL NOTICED BLOOD.
" 'Why, I'm bleeding,' he said, but he
irsisted his Wi.uud was not serious and
that he must not disappoint the crowd at
the auditorium. Ho we drove on.
Martin exhibited the revolver which
he had taken from the assassin. It was
a large weapon, evidently newly pur-
chased and of ,30-caliber.
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Make Over Million Dollars Gain
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Perkins Assures Colonel's Wife
Theater Bullet Had Done
No Serious Harm.
NKW YORK, Oct. 14.—Mrs. Theodore
Roosevelt was attending a musical com-
edy at a Broadway theater tonight at the
time the attempt was being made upon
her husband's life in Milwaukee. The
news was broken to her as she sat in a
box with a party of friends.
In fear I hat tho announcement of the
attempted assassination might be made
from the stage and be an unnecessarily
great shock to the'Colonol's wife, George
W. Perkins, chairman of the executive
committee Ot the National Progressive
party, who was among the first to re-
ceive the news, dispatched a messenger
to Mrs. Roosevelt.
Although assurances were given In the
first dispatch that the Colonel had not
been seriously wounded. Mrs. Roosevelt
Immediately left the theater, driving to
the headquarters of the National Progres-
sive committei in the HottifManhattan
She here waited anxiously for further
details. She was considerably relieved
• by the early bulletins reporting that the
Colonel had been so slightly wounded
| and that he «us aide to proceed with his
( speech.
Iff'tiiT I,ane Wilson. American ambassa-
dor to Mexico, lost no time yesterday aft
ernoon on his arrival here in setting the
nhola machinery of the embassy in im
tion to effect t .o release of a former San
Antonlan, who is held by Mexican rebels
in the State of Chihuahua for a ransom of
$o.OOO gold.
This mil ii is Arthur MeCormh I,, son of
Mr. and Mrs. I>. li. .MeCormlck of Hit) Den
ver Street, this city. lie has been manager
of the Las Palomas ranch several years,
and information concerning hl\ capture by
a baud of marauders only reached his. fatlv
er yesterday morning. Mr. McCurjph'k at
once took up the matter with lJuval West.
Mr. West knew Ambassador Wilsou was
coiniug through San Antouio on his way to
Washington, and both he and Mr. McCor-
tnicK held conferences with the United
Slates representative lu Mexico during the
afternoon.
Ambassador Wilson, whose energy in
matters of this sort has won him the
praise of nil Americans resident in Mexico,
promised to use every chance that offers
to effect youug McCormiel's speedy re-
lease, aud sent telegrams to the proper
parlies looking toward this end. Mr. Mc-
i.'ormtck started last night to the I,as pa-
io(nas ranch, and will aid the United States
and Mexican authorities in every possible
way.
Mrs. MeCortniok is visiting in Dallas ana
news of the plight of her sun has been
kept from her. Mexican rebels have given
him trouble before, but tills Is the first
time they havo seized him, though he has
had several narrow escapes. The Las
Palomas ranch borders on the New Mex-
ico line for eighty .miles, and news or
young McVormick's capture comes from
American sources. It is not known where
the capture of the young man took place,
PATIlKIt APPREHTINS1VI:
Throughout the past year rebels have,
at frequent Intervals, threatened the prop-
erty of the eoinpauy and I ho lives of the
Americans located there. Several of Mo
Connlck's companion! have boon held for
a while. They were released, though, after
negotiation!.. Mr. MeConnick hopes Ids
sou will hare no worse sledding, but is ap-
prehensive.
Ambassador Wilson is accompanied by
Mrs. Wilson and his brother. John I, Wil-
son, the owner and editor of tlie Seattle
Post-Intelligencer, one of the most influ-
ential journals of the Northwest. He is
taking what lie calls a "vacation" and says
he does not know how long lie will he ab-
sent from his post. He and Mrs. Wilson
will leave San Antonio tills morning' for
Washington and that will be his address
during the next few weeks.
Though Ambassador Wilson calls his
visit a "vacation," men familiar with Mex-
ican affairs are of the opinion lie1 is going
to Washington to lay before the Secretary
of State a detailed report concerning con
dltions In Mexico that can better be done
by personal talk than by correspondence.
It Is no secret that the ambassador has
sharply called the attention of the Mexican
Government, to the various claims against
Mexico growing out of tho revolution. In
an interview, answering an article In N'u«-
vtt Era, a .Mexican newspaper, he said the
claims would be pushed with all the energy
the American authorities conid put into
tliem and that Just ones would have to he
paid.
This Interview was given in reply to
what lie considered an inspired article.
N'lieva En was considered a Government
organ. Later the Mexican officials denied
that the paper was either the Govern-
ment's organ or that the article in qnes
Hon had received any "inspiration" from
them. Ambassador Wilson is expected to
talff over this question with Secretary
Knox at much length.
"ROLL-CALL OF THE DEVIL"
Another matter that, It Is thought, will
be considered Is the number of Americans
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edge of how to net when he demanded ot
tho Governor of Tamaullpns that a former
Texan imprisoned in Tumpleo l»e iiu
mediately put In better quarters. His de-
mand was complied with with alercity.
physical manhood." said Dr. Richardson
tonight.
Hear Admiral P. Al. Hixey, sctired,
United States Navy, who was Colonel
Roosovelt's constant attendant at the
White llm.se, said: "111s splendid phys-
ical condition minimizes the effect of the
wound he received tonight."
News of Roosevelt's IMipht Received
at Capital With Deep
Regret.
WA8HINGTON, I). C„ Oct. 14. News of
the attack upon Colonel Roosevelt's life
came as h complete shock to Washington.
At the White House executive offices
among the attaches, many of whom were
friends of the Colonel during his term
of office, the utmost anxiety was shown. ,
When Colonel Itoosevelt was President
he roamed about Washington in complete
disregard of harm. Often he slipped
away from the secret service men who
invariably followed him, and lost his
protectors for hours.
it was popular report that the Colonel
always went armed, and some of his j
friends said he often declared any es- |
sassiti who reached him would have to j
be quicker than he.
Senator Moses E. Clapp of Minnesota
was shocked at the news. "It's most dis-
tressing," said the Senator. "It can not
Injure the cause, however; the movement
will go on Just the same."
Iiiwrenco O. Murray, Comptroller ot the
Currency, was Informed Just before mid-
night of the attack on the former Presi-
dent. "This Is a terrible thing," said he.
"I trust his injuries will not prove to be
serious."
Dr. J. J, Richardson of this city trav-
eled with Colonel Roosevelt when he was1
President six years ago. "He showed
himself then to be a fine specimen of
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