THE WOUND SERIOUS
MILWAUKEE. October 14. Mr Theodore Roosevelt, ex President of the United States and Progressive Republican Candidate in the present xsamppaign,, has been shot by a .Socialist. Hie wound is serious.
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MR TAFT THJIEACTEKED
During tlje present campaign, ?..tr Taft has also been threatened, though not by a Socialist Al 'TOman of prepossessing appearance, who solemnly declared that she had "a sacred knife for President Toft," '.van arrested at Columbus, Ohio, just as Mr Taft, who was visiting the town to attend the centennial celebrations, alighted from his motor car outside the Southern Hotel. She gave the name of Mrs Caroline Beers, of Greenville, Ohio. As Mr Taft was about to enter the hotel her mutter'ings and strange behaviour attracted the at tention of two detectives stationed .at the top of the stairway leading to the Presidential suite. They seized ,ber ? and found that she had in ner pocket two knives, one having a ;x>rtrait of the President on the handle. She told the detectives that «ie w.is the wife of the President, and intended to punish him with the sacred 'knife.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 10712, 16 October 1912, Page 5
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188THE WOUND SERIOUS Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 10712, 16 October 1912, Page 5
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