The evening world. Newspaper, October 15, 1912, Page 3

CRANK SAYS LOSS OF HIS SWEETHEART + HE IS NEITHER A SOCIALIST Zeigler, but he added: pemeen, ERE EES GOT A) embtetn SL Rett Sd we-—mer . ~felt—righ: | Successtul,t- “Sa e-~’orsir® Nm made last night. The crank talked freely since.’ was right be right to Elste. When she went down | shot Col. Roosevelt, suicide, and did not know how I could | asked with a ga: Ive without her. I resolved to be true|a cockroach. Sweetheart. knew about John Schrank, For the last five years, so far as 1s known, Schrank lived a colorless, nesa- tive sort of life in this city as a lodger in the White House at No, 156 Canal street. He passed under the two names ef John Flammang and John Schrank, worked intermittently as an {nsurance #0- | Neitor, wae often out of employment and short of money. But, contrary to what would be the popular beltef, he was never heard to talk anarchy, not bitten with the bug of Socialism ro far as his conversation indicated, in said to me: a room cheap enough.’ @ clue which indicates that as re- cently as last March Schrank exhibited indications of unsound mind. behind him in the White House, when he left there three weeks ago, was found & summons from the Second to appear in an action brought by | Ways pad up promptly stroh and Theodore Thumann, partners TALK VIOLENTLY. in @ aaloon at No, 2 Inquiry into the records >f the court and at the saloon of the partners who Were made defendants in Schrank's ac- Hoe —babnge te tight be feet thet be bree 5 mit Re R STN \ worked at the saloon as @ porter, hav-| anarchy or Socialism. iS answered an advertisement in tho | per if no talked politics any Fepape.®, and-iiatwt-tlewat of Mis Pthan afiv other WAR. third week of employment he was put] «+1 ao not recall ever Behind the free lunch oounte: Abia annals PO8_t014, What De WAP 100 POM ODL /epaninitettamdnem Ienllends i dh stheiom Het quem eEre ee. (AES camara} S SALLE Ee mcereeee witty mas mmmeene. against Col. Roosevelt I would have rec-| ion, BC. and went to that city By bis place, whereupon he quit work and| oliected ts. Ha was exceptionally | 0% 8 C» and went to th ied! @emanded that he be paid $11 for the| decent tn his talk and manners, and he at another men would come to take f@nfinished week's work. He refused to | Was always neat and weil kept. Herold H. Seaton of No, 373 Fulton Schrank. Sent It—Pfisoaer \*’as Arrestéd * on the General Slocum I thought of] “Why, that quiet little acrub?’ ; want to live at your hotel if I can “While in Chicago on Saturday I was ‘aft w Cc x gerous undertaking. I was convinced +4 Cretan on aman. (be ‘a D at the Jackson Motel, and decided after eno pI ‘ol eve wag! “I let him have a room for $2 a/ that if he was defeated at the fall|my fuliure at the Coliseum to come to ineauve ie Ries hin eee week and he moved in. He said he. tection he would again cry ‘thief,’ and| Milwaukee in advance of the party and young » looks us if he had t @ Job like that somewhere else. dent McKinley appeared to me, {) shoot to Kilt when Roone eit appeared “AM UNUTTERABLY 1 fatally w harles J. | dom saw fit to so retard and deflect old by McKinley in this dream} 0 e caused all thin | VCE DD 000874 I Guttenu, a disaps Ire woek= 1 the bullet intended to end Col, Roose ‘. 4 | trouble for the good peop! a SHOCKED" .---S AUS. | ee Waehington, y i - 4 hat {t was not Czoigosz who murdered wood people of Mil Roosevelt presen ‘ i oat i sWanhington, duty a. tate cig. [| velt’s lite, that it# mission was with: . ss , sorry that I carried out my plan. = MSTERDAM, N.Y, Oct, 15.—Whei ago whot di by Willa Prone [/out avail, It 1s a horrible thought written proclamation found on the ' a Aaaaeatn (aA Naa ¥ Naat 4 dergast, also a spolnted office |: that any mind could be so disorder dream, told me that his blood was on} *°A"\ tit ‘ould-Be Assassin Got Ne A * sie amet ale! Reed erie sncotated : off ‘1 id disordered Roosevelt's hands and that Roosevelt} clothing of Schrank reads U-15e ASSASSI NEar | nformed of the attack on Col. Roose '} o Chicago, ( * to desire to murter any human? awd killed iim so that he might be ptember 16, 1912. . Raecas Fi velt'n life, Oncar 8, Straus, Progressive Gov.-elect William Ken- | being, and most horrible that the ef- some Presidont. September 15, 1901, 1.0 A, a.—tm] Colonel in Saginaw, Mich, candidate for Governor, si whot dead by a man whose vas directed toward the destruo- "I was more deeply impressed by{a dream I saw President McKinley i am shocked beye pression | ntifieation wan never satisfact tion of a life so much of which has what I read in the newspapers than| Set up in a monk's attire in whom I aeremreeret that any man could be found who! entablixhed in aw Aght for con. voted to public service! others, and after having this dream|'ecoxnized Theodore Roosevelt. The! crtoaqo, oo ’ ; 5 MN pauiene Rte ROVERKanl Eanes en devoted to pi was more convinced than ever that 1| President sald, ‘This in my murderor; | °! , Oct. 15,—The hero of the: would wish to hurt the greatest friend|| fare Kee 0, 190 vil ahould’ free the ouuntry trom’ the men th.! attempted assassination of Col. Koose-|of the plain people the country has |] prewde McKinley shot | Dauwhter Alice Leaves for Chicage. hou ‘ $ 1901,, wan the dey. .after|yalt, the, man who ts. given.c for {seen since Abraham Lincoln. The bul || and. fytal " -.| _CINCINNATL Oct, 1b.—Mra, Nicholas “On Sept. 21 I removed to the White mi 12,1912, 1.30 A. ™ Laid is ; yer 12, 44 ate red mind, milwintluenc y left on an early morning train more Hotel at No, 156 Canal street, near the . m some one tapped | the second shot for which his villifcntions many ¢ ‘rank toa Ghleked py Bay Michalas Fe (Bowery. | did this. a4. me Ora! Aten Jarman. the SPGO at and woth Tees gos PINRAE WNT TOT MOUNT CHARA ETD ewe hase autidh obg be rab bes Herat ioe Vb a ett aan tale wh!) mee Cem ene @ plan to kill Roosevelt. 1 went soon erer take the Presidential ohair. 5 everpowered, is Elbert E. Mar-| public mind. y In reveng: tern ¥ the same ety at inight to-night. IN SLOCUM DISASTER MADE SGHRANK MENTALLY WEAK Jost | with Roosevelt since the former Pres- | waylay him, I decided to shoot him “He wouldn't shoot | ident was Police Commissioner of New | hé arrived in Chicago, and waited for Roosevelt’s Assailant Admits to Reporters He “Has Never Been the Same” Since Elsie Ziegler Went Down With Burned Excursion Steamer. NOR AN ANARCHIST, IT IS SAID. PLOTTED FAR THREE WEEKS Judge Recalls Threatening Letter and Thinks | al! RUN DOWN 1 DOWN HS VICE Here for Peddling Without a. ; bee Sroeainy CiGKNCe Tt NGW tere ws iatiesy ome by JEN Schrank Lele. Haw He Follewe: He Followed Col. ‘Roosevelé} Schrank, Col. Roosevelt's assailant, for the mental derangement which prompted him to attempt assassination, Schrank says hie sweetheart lost Through South and West, His Revuive: ber lite when the (iat vessel Gen, Slocum burned in the East River, AER Ready. for_Instant-Action.— Schrank talked freely to newspapermen and jail attaches to-day. Asked if he had over bad a sweetheart, he said he bad and her name was Elste MILWAUKER, Oct. 15.—John Schrank of New York, the man who The would-be slayer related the virtues of Elsfe Zeigler, who, he sald, “I formerly ran a saloon at No, 310 East Tenth street, between Avenues was a beautiful girl and whom he had planned to marry when everything C anc C, “Have you ever had another sweet-)Jost, who had not read the morning’s| When nine years old with my parents. I had been engaged in the saloon heart?” asked the reporter. Papers, when an Evening World reportér | busine: “No,” said Schrank, “that would not|told him that his former lodger had | nearly all my life, until I decided that it was my duty to kill Col. Reosevelt. to Elsie and have never had another! ‘Phen Jost proceeded to tell all he “About five years ago a Ittle man|I began to think seriously of him as with a very white face and sort of}a menace to his country, especially skinny hands came mto my hotel and| when he cried ‘thie! “Don't you remember me? My father) @ third party as a dai kept a saloon around in Elizabeth street | try. My knowledge of history, gained ind I was raised in that district. : HOWS ACTIVITY IC, y that his action would plunge th t}iay my. pls care! 3 i a regener ceil A ReTRG f _ | VICE-PRESIDENT GLAD fan insurance man—a solicitor or a ‘ould plunge the count |iay my plans #0 carefully that I could unch.” he aald of Martin. and how the EVERY 8 YEARS ¢ IN HIS WISDOM” But last fall he asked me ff I could PLANNED TO KILL. give him a job as bartender or get him He something Hke that—and he seemed, ‘TY into @ bloody civil war. not fail. T came to Milwaukee Sunday atenograph! fact, had no definite ideas on anything. ; Morning aud Went tothe Ateyia: & inter ‘The Evening World to-day ran down for @ while to be kept fairly busy. SAW M'KINLEY IN DREAM AND Hing house on Third street. ie: yor, t class of 1% r ch Was to arrivi 6 i Tm a sult of clothes which he left| Ald he had made some unfortunate! nim out of the way. 1 was living at! also that he was to be « guest at tne Me wax admitted t the bar tn my home address at the time, but soon} Gil : od t x sing, Mich, ance, T have forgotten which he said. | ator I had a dream in which former| tion near’ tho entanee: nett com ere He said he was down and out, but he] pre, District Municipal Court tn Brookign | continued to live at my hotel and al-| w deals, either in real estate or insur- Jomn Schrank against Edward Haber-| NEVER DRANK MUCH; DID NOT|him but Roosevelt. McKinley, in this) Waukee and Wisconsin, but T am not Flushing ave-| “He never drank very much. I don't bua, The summons was dated March 4/ recall ever having seen him drunk, GUED SALOON MEN FOR $11 PAY | though my bartender believes he has seen him slightly under the influence AND LOST CAGE, of Nquor. But he ured to talk freely enough. He would talk about common matters of business and things about the. city. U.never remember having I don't remem: Recept $5 and got out a summons for| Jost explained how it happened that J the partners to appear. he learned of Schrank’s double name, | cordingly went to Charte: . = 2 ’ ‘ He sald tuati ‘o oat July.he.bad They~nore -decended In thety suic BF! wary known his lodger an John Flam-|« bag at the Hoseley House in that city THE EVENING WORLD, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1912. eine ‘KINLEY’S SPIRIT URGED HIM TO FIRE SHOT shot Roosevelt, told of a carefully laid plot, often frustrated but finally after his first refusal to give his name. He said: w York, I was born in Erding, Bavaria, two hours out of Munich, ihe capital. I -anr thirty-six years old and came to tals country as proprietor and as an employee of members of my family, { “I have been personally acquainted | shoot Roosevelt, but was unable to York, in 1895, 1 was first attractea|bim at the Chicago and Northwestern to him as a political personage dur- | Station, but the Intended viotim did < “nbd not arrive there. I then decided to do ing the convention in Chicago. Then line shooting at the Coliseum, but in| this case, as in others, Roosevelt left the building by an entrance other than at that conven-|the one at which I had stationed my- tion. I lovked upon nis plan to start | self. to the coun-| “During all this time I had travelled under the name of Walter Ros, ex- cept at Charleston, where I gave my ‘ht nam COPY AIONT 1007 or UCN BaOv. rN 1) through much reading, convinced me t | that Roosevelt was engaged in a dan- jonel'a personal are slight dnd I hope for your y very.” ASSASSINS’ RECORD ‘That Since President Lincoln's assan ination by John Wilkes Booth April 14 1 there has by a notable political assassination or at rted assassination in the United States on an average @ Httle lew than every elght years, The list ollowy President James A. ¢ RETARDED THE BULLET. UTICA, N. Y., Oct, 15.—Vice-Preat- dent Sherman this morning sald with r to the attack on Col, Roose- velt an parried this sum | He is not only an expert steno i but a lawyer, having gra from 1 or, , “I then purchased newspapers to in- “I deemed it my duty, after much| OFM myself as o Roosevelt's where. consideration of the aituation, tovgu ae en and learned on Monday that he tion near the entrance, w. 1 cou Wield shot H pleaed that God in His w Idan. 4 in suppres: eo pao bitten NY Neither wou atterward to @ gun store on Broadway Avenge my death.’ i . the Colonel's stenographer. All| ir. Straus dictated the following purchased a revorver, Rhy aoe Br Martin. has? Tsar reutauvarie® jae aoe Mesentbedi. duimnah eammspenierpear the Almighty God, I swear aways at the elbOWs) preserve you for your family Mayor Wilh this above writing I# nothing but the} pushing Intrusive persona away feountry. 1 snucterably York shot and steamooat. My first plan was to cateh] truct : ‘ t not fatally wour mee Col. Roo has | shocked. I anxiously await no fi the Roosevit pa‘: in New Orleans, but] Another note found tn the man'a| mee eee see, OO pedal te | 70u" * Ghecbbe cheep me SE 1 found that to be tmpossible. 1 ac t reads reproved him for being too rough. In) _—~—>—_—. nlovee Hoboken. v) attemnt upe velt is the elehth on th REATIA AGITATED, andre Sec cN™ eee Teh ee 2 and upon ng as ‘pon arctva! there had $100 left, L left) #reatest power of er surviving a “I rise to the |@aeinaw, Mich, when Martia threw | AP Ee Tard Aemstie | kimaelt egainat a. man_who wae, ual ors ORGE W, PERWIN 3 tradition more than|ing forward amd shoved him into » 2 " coli’ murde n forty-seven ve and that he used to rereive let-[ueten cont: as 0 years old, a4 2a e ‘ = — - ‘ street, wha wold gu Evmiog World ‘re- mat, he Weed, to Ferelve lett wktch contstnad~ bes dee athe amet Pee i tee HE LR. NORD a LS tery tee anment Seabebn y= SibedMO Wezerrvee vane ow ithe en Weamerg on tar nse + + worms “porter to-day that from the time of the cre But last July Flammang| "oich the revolver 1 had purchased had/trnited States of America ta uphowd velt. Martin declares that the man at) (eure W. Perkins, Chalfnian of the Serving of “he summons unt the case | ram to him and cold im contentaly [Been backed, & deel to property, on| we. “uinianrm “trating. tat “avery [SMgiaMW and BERTARR are the wanue,. | Hoes os oes ot enacts M'COMAS AND.M?AROO was tried on March 1 Tihiat the-eatter his name would be Johw{ TShtv-fret “treet fn New-York, Worth) thitdstormer he reg @ traitor at nikht in Miwaukea” MAFIA wilt reree = ste rret ag gl ck WIRE COL. ROOSEVELT a efce at Schrank and that he shalt be. kao 5,000, and naturalization pavers.| to the Americon. ea the the Cotorelta elbow. He r...Cor | Aeadquarters UpOR hear orene a8 a ing always the same queation: “Are you! #% Schrank only. He gave no reason | That bag ts there now. right and duty of every -|ochems was on the otler side oft ton, Was} THEIR FELICITATIONS, going to settle?” The man seomed to be | joy: Wn cna Mt, OF namie, and, so far as! FOLLOWED VICTIM THROUGH | Cilly remove a tird- to the car first,” sald re deietited d and wrose this é st knows, he had not gone befo! @ third-term party emblem aj , vas custor or Mtoe rier Nationa! Chairman MeComhg of th femenied, Mr. Seaton sald to-day, and! rourt to have the change orale Maui | ag. MANY STATES. Nok 6 Sleds terme pase na fartin, aa {t was customary for t Thave Just Ul to may. A tow aneeta! National Chairman McCombs of the tis gctions were irrational, Letters continued to come intermite ‘Not being able to carry out my| o'r am willing to die for my Colonel to take the middle seat |} of paper Klopped @ bullet to-night that nocra ational mmittee, and Webrank lost the case and he was not | tently for “John Flammang. plan in Charleston, I proceeded to At-| God hax called me to be Hin instrg, | 20% Ko Mrst.” replied Murtin, The po-| would Fae Ne ee oattalt tee. Sar eeen again by the saloon-keepors. LEFT “TO GO WEST" Two| ante ¢ then to Chattanooga, Tenn.,| ment, #0 help me God Hteness gave him the opportunity to] f the first citizen tn the United | PM sorayae ' ariaoneeses bo _ EEE JUDGE THINKS SCHRANK SENT WEEKS AGO. 08 £2008 share to Rivanavilie and In- ( 4) “INNOCENT GUILTY. [engrave his name on the roll of fi for whateve ov aviarne ro ea ea your, a pinen re i anapolis, Ind, and to Chicago. In] (Written in German): “A strong| for Cochema was out of reach when moment tn the fl olces at your ma dastardly HIM THREATENING NOTE, Jost suid that Sehrank told him that|each one of ti cities I tried tol tower is our God." wrong | tho shot was fired and Martin was right! Aight that Is golng on, no man atten Ot OARORHAOD: OG). your The day after Judge Strahl! rendered | he had a brother who went under the + hase a fair mind Will deny that, in all{ splendid — exbibte Indomita te fudgment against Schrank in his suit| name of Flammang on Cooper atreet, wie 4 to make for good citizenship, | American spirit. T earnestly hepe for | Leeman) Brooklyn. The directory tal | was seen occasionally several tim v} Schrank was within seven feet of the east a ease Senin Nike ta ewafnet the two exloonkeepare a threat: | Srookyy. | ¥ containe 20) Trier that. sitting in the rear rooms at | RUNNING MATE, Aina HEA Ma nik haan Hic Oat aimatgaliae auton recovery AT 14 RETAIL PRICES aes Municipal Court, The Jettor,| “TW2 Weeks or 99 ago," the propristor| S#loons and talking GOV. JOHNS ‘AYS the gun levelled at Col, Roosevelt's eit stands preeminent: with profound regret that 1 Thre Week Only ae ease nea creaihed death ang | continued, “Schrank came to me and og NE ROOSEVELT’S UNAFRAID | »reast. Ve fired and tn an instant Mar- | tizen of nd Ne ak tua Aiamnt on ie teuotion without making apedife ref-| he was giving Up the East and was'ge, | PRENDERGAST —— in leaped on him and hurled him to the} GEORGE W. PERKING” | 80h ‘sincerely thankful that your In: Uulergoteed Mave, ster ic ref-| he was givin ne East and was go- Fy ‘ ; UE AG En, he beh le 1 sincere an ‘our in Misteatee ‘rence to any grievance. It was the, ing out West to join his unclo in] MESSAGE OF § ¥MPATHY, t Oct, Aie-Not untit he |! ane Sith. ane. of nu res |e asa s ad cone aeeaacan Bead Bio: Spe tiered ant Nene Shas firet letter of ite kind Judge Strahl had | ‘uthern California, Mepaid for is HIMSELF A SICK MAN. » morning from Toledo | ere Martin leap on the man ‘ike|@0y- Ben's £61) to Get tt Order neat! . excl a tia dan sel h recelved @ post cari opp in R F "4 account of th of Col, [a wild anim Cochems, ) el 1 " t four ee aan re Ne vitae uieies | from him dated, 1 believe, Charieston, | A? sed at Lakeville, Conn of tho | iiogevat rior ex.| himself selged the wansassin a secoad| Bewedenler to-morrow mornin and “we - “8.0, in which he simuly eoi4 ‘Tam at} 8 = 0 td Comptre r sel eatiofa that the | later “He dashed bim to the round, | at the best Ptume Sohrank had made to his office Judge tis place’ or something like that, [| Prendergast sent -|Cownel’e wound p bly would not} Vairhanke Ste tt Shnehe } areatn don't tal 18 ‘plac @ tha probably would notltwisting the tan's head beck ena h : ere ae ; absolute. bark a Strahl was convinced, he sald to-day, | thought it strange, for ne had told me] &ram to the forme se id auc Pe Ne Me eae Pek Ao | BENTON HAIHOH, Mich A=! ts suficient. No ensh necessary, |) ustees Sraordiniry: wal of Achrank's authorship of the nassive.! he was wolng tto California,” 1 am horrified * COMI TT Wa i iisadie citadel ol, Maat b li cuit g dl BALL Fe eee ae Ee piak oat ie aeteies and He took no steps at the timo to have! In hts confession made to the Mil-| tempt on your lif iloaa GF What they may do, he will| im Peter A IAAT! Khe Wespan could) ete they differ. OF eure with Col'l your family want and tall ihe olare chtank apprehended. waukee police Sohrank say# that his! cause of the greatest Fe ee on this crusade as lung we he {9 | 2 rei | whe vey oF a 1 Col! your fh nd r bis Ay Policeman Michael Shay, | {fat move in the determination to Kill fait thanksgiving througlout the nate ; Martin (n @ former football player | Liat NN eolresident Charles W.| coqcynede it. ur credit ayetors, te , f 1 Viaines attaehed to the Union Market station, | Roo#evelt wae to go by boat to Charies-| 04 ‘the world Tho ewe has Just " _——— and Schrank was no mateh for tit. ! yg Hremident Charles W.1 simple, agreeable and confidential, ; ‘ fn tone, Matas’ Gebrenk: wee atrosiad 1a] a) Mc tence ba went to Atlanta, | O88, the Werk Fhe. newa ne, Just GOV. WILSON WIRE. Hite ered enporately to pull the Arik AesUhy WAR PeLererise.| You will like it wi aa ine wid a ss ja jattanooga, nn, Indianapoll judul) Mi rddmay RORDE. tae HIS CONGRATU, : of iis weapon but could not, and! Iv lta if Mr ka dl heavy and full; vt vith Ghisaa deepest sympathy and affe tion. y . fi 4 IL Ss | i an a} sold weer gc gre i Sa erayromaiy an ein ar! MUR CONGRATULATIONS, IR nares ite ae|aineia wore ae! Our Clothes Sha w oshoart with cenae. Sh TOOK THE NAME OF SaLooti |‘: your amt” son ie ONEL'S ESCAPE, 000)" ward ive vss an : sie tee wile wald to-~day that he served a suinmons renderga f a giek aren on, achema andy 1 ey Imaly ipon Shrank when the Iatter was MAN WHO ADOPTED HIM. 4 it ix t he wilt t Oct 1h.—One of the | ® APEChal policeman wrenched the gun | Are Right : $ $ puiiag ont Avena G, beiwean th | The mystery concerning ‘ Woodrow Witnon {Way from Schrank, and then Our prices are lower than any i ah byl double identity was partially ol : ION ota mur Ane ee ante cnicaeraial other store charges, and We give tnd Tenth streets, |The peddier Krew itantay by John Hoffman, bartender $0 mand the nowss Mt on having the man's Life. Mup-| 986 WRAL YOU need after @] yi ihy widest choloe of styles to ory and said he would not 4) | Haggerty's saloon on Bast Tent tele harante tock 11 | z pear in court the following day Hoffman said that Schrank had been He sent and Cocke bi vecyh ti hard day’s work. NO $, He did not answer his name in the adopted twenty years ago by (ie olonel at Ch to wafety under Col, Roosevelt's A Wasex Market Court on the following Flamman » owned a saloon at No ny warment 9, tection | 9 MONEY Hy Ar hy M1 + he calles after ’ ne hurt hin ed the ¢ el, CAN'T BELIEVE “THAT LITTLE jis adoption, had mover owned a saloon t to Philadelphia thialand his orders Were reapected } SCRUB” SHOT ANYONE. Mt that address, aw he recited. tn vault @ throat # se ELAS: TS RROUB The only two men who seem to know rasion, but he had worked wa ot re . seat fell tabi atin huch of Sehrank's personality a (hus or Flaw 1 re) ording: ” f making |# native ol ncheat ‘ W bf i | tave Jos, proprietor o Noffman, for man eure. to ‘ : an Ad Weat On Hundred ’ rae aad humang 4old out his interest | eu nd Fortysthird stiee yw York ( | j 94 3, Ave 7 ce S tia Who does rot want ONMAW Mask. Bua than yee . Sold ve FA WE dad AB Mt tule showthsg vet ae faaeen yee iy by. the simple process of walking in airtight tine only | pe cmnae usin fet. Sih @ uth Ave TH AVENUE F ay Known & nn Phanmang dle | Progressive He peared from whe Beighbornood, Iquarters and avhie) be @ job, He was given it and soun Red Cices ++ Cough Drop ured mri OMe