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Show . SCHRANK PLEADS GUILTY. Man Who Shot Colonel Roosevelt to be Examined by Lunacy Commission. Mlwaukee, Wis. John Scbrsnk on Tuesday pleaded guilty of attempting to murder Theodore Roosevelt and in his plea he sought to distinguish between be-tween an assault upon Roosevelt aa a "menace" and an attack upon Roosevelt Roose-velt as a citizen. Municipal Judge A. C. Rrnckus announced an-nounced upon reading a petition of District Attorney Winifred C. Seabel that be would name later a commission to examine Into Schrank's mental condition. con-dition. Less than 150 persons llstenel to the proceedings and watched the small, compact form of Schrank as be stepped slowly to the bar and entered his plea. Of this number twenty were detect! res and haf a score deputy sheriffs who watched closely all persons per-sons in the room not known to them. |