SCHRANK ADJUDGED INSANE.
John Schrauk, the crank who shot Theodore Roosevelt in the breast at Milwaukee a fortnight before the Presidential election, probably will spend the remainder of his life in a lunatic asylum. He has been adjudged insane by a commission of alienists in Wioconsin, and under the laws of that State he will now be held in confinement in one of the hospitals for the insane until such time as he shall recover, when he shall be returned to the jurisdiction of the court for trial. It is the opinion of the doctors, however, that Schrauk is an incurable paranoic, so that he never will be tried. The es-President’s assailant pleaded guilty to the charge of attempt to murder, and the doctors were then named to determine his sanity. Before being taken to the asylum Schtank said : “I bad expected they would find me insane because it was in the papers two days ago. I want to say now that I am sane and know what I am doing all the time. lam not a lunatic, and never was one. I was called upon to do a duty, and have done it. The commission has sworn away my life. They can do what they like with me now. They can bury me alive if they see fit. I don’t care what happens now.”
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 1044, 28 December 1912, Page 3
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225SCHRANK ADJUDGED INSANE. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 1044, 28 December 1912, Page 3
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