Show EXP EX P Hs NARROW ESCAPE MAN WHO HAD TRAILED PRO GnES SIVE LEADER FOR fon DAYS TRIES TO MURDER HIM colonel roosevelt ina in v upon addressing audience declaring DeUr tring his HI injuries trivial and refused to go to hospital until he had finished speech milwaukee WIs wig colone colonel roosevelt was shot und alli slightly wounded monday night aa ho he was nus leaving the GlI gilpatrick patrick hotel for the tile coliseum to make a speech thy thu wound was superficial and the colonel went on to the ball and began his speech after he lie had seen the as assassin sass in arrested and taken to the tile police station henry P F cochems with others seized the ae and held hold him until policemen came up the man who shot colonel roose hisham hian aroa aj john and his address as nw now york cit in an manner he told chief janneson Jann Janne esob sot at police headquarters of having wanted to kill roosebelt Roo bo be cause he did not believe any pres president dent ought to have inore than two tao terms the prisoner gave every appearance of being crazy he ile mumbled to himself and looked wild wll eed deved e ed in his pockets the poll found a letter addressed to the people in which aich Lic hrank wrote of what ho he called a dream that came to him in which he saw roosevelt as the assassin of prea ident BIc mckenley Kinley he ile asserted in the letter that no president ought to serve sene three terms informed the police that be he had fol followed loved colonel roosevelt around the country for the lb last st week to kill him As colonel roosevelt stepped stopped into an automobile on his way vay from the hotel to the coliseum bis his assailant fired the bullet crashing into the ex ax presidents right side just below the nipple when the would be aser assassin asin was mer overpowered powered colonel roosevelt called out dont hurthia hurt hur thim him im all right upon being driven to the coliseum colonel roosevelt was implored by his friends to give up the speech and go to a hospital but he declared he was not hurt and that he was going to made that speech even eien it if it was his last one roosevelt talked for fifteen minutes before he gave the slightest indication tion that he felt the effect of the bullet then a sudden twinge of pain made him clutch his right side the audience ence was quick to observe it and a protest ran through the hall ball for the colonel to stop roosevelt frowned now this Is all a trivial affair he cried anyone who knows knos me must realize that I 1 would not stop tor for a thing like this I 1 may have a right to feel sore with a bullet in me but it if you saw me in battle leading my regiment you would not want mo me to atop you would encourage me to go ahead no matter what happened in opening his speech colonel roosevelt said 1 I shall have to ask you to be as quiet as possible I 1 do not know whether ou fully understand that I 1 have just been shot but it takes more than that to kill a bull moose but fortunately I 1 had my manuscript golding up manuscript showing the audience where tho tie bullet had gone through so aou ou see I 1 was going to make a long speech and friends the hole Is in it 11 that the bullet went through and it probably aanen it from going into ray my heart the bullet Is in mo rne now so that I 1 cannot make a very long speech but I 1 will try my best colonel roosevelt wis iris wildai cheered at the conclusion of iia address when hen he lie was taken to the hospital later in the evening tho th colonel identified tiel d his assailant at police head quarters gu arters while the colonel was on an bis big way to the hospital which Is ten ter block away from the auditorium i was tent sent to mrs roosevelt at oi ster bay telling her of the shooting she was informed that the wound was slight and nd that the colonel had gone ahead with his speech su suffering no discomfiture other messages were hurried sut ut to various others of the colonels family including congressman nicholas nicholao longworth in washington colonel roosevelt was able to re and reached chicago jume his journey at tuesday morning having baving spent a res restful night and find encee no discomforts during the trip milwaukee 2 I 1 |