MORE FAVOURABLE REPORT

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 10712, 16 October 1912, Page 5

MORE FAVOURABLE REPORT

WOUND NOT'LIKELY TO PROVE FATAL. 'ARREST; OF THE ASSAILANT. MOB TRIES TO LYNCH HIM. (Received Last Night, 0.30 o'clock.). NEW YORK, October 15. Mr Roosevelt has been removed to, a. temporary hospital. The wound has been pronounced as not likely to prove fatal. . Mr Roosevelt declares that . too much fuss is being made over a "trifling matter." The announcement made while the meeting was in progress that Mr Roosevelt had been shot, threw the audience into a panic. The chairman begged the audience to remain calm. Mr Roosevelt continued his speech, but was visibly weaker towards its close. The audience frantically cheered him when he refused to sit down. Mrs Roosevelt heard the no\ys while attending a theatre in .xew, York. The assailant is a man named John Schrank, a resident of New York. The mob tried to lynch him, but the police prevented them. When arrested, he declared: "Any man seeking the Presidency for a third term ought to be shot!" On being searched at the polici? .station documents were found in his 'possession, showing that he had had a dream, in which President McKinley's spirit had visited him and indicated Mr Roosevelt as McKinley's murderer.' He had been asked to take vengeance on Roosevelt. Sohrank is undoubtedly crazy. (President McKinley was assassinated in 1901.)

Colonel Theodore Roosevelt was born at New York on October 2/t-;i : 1858, and is thus fifty-four years ot age. His father was of a New York and his-mother-of a Scotch family. I .He was educated at Harvard Utii- ' versity. In 1882 lie became a momi her of the New York Legislature. > In the following year he was leader of the minority, and in 188-1 became leader of the House. From 1889 to 1895 he was United States Civil Service Cbmmissioneir, jjud (from 1895 to 1897 President of the New York Police Board. He was appointed Assistant Secretary of the Navy in 1897. He organised the first United States Cavalry Volunteers (known as Roosevelt's Rough Riders), and commanded the battalion in Cuba in 1898. He was Governor of New York State from 1898 to 1900. From March -Ith i to September 14th, 1901, he was VicePresident of the United States, and was elected President in 1901, retain-1 3 i ing the position until 1908, when he ' retired in favour of Mr Taft. He lias since been engaged in big game hunting iii Africa, and in newspaper work. For some time he was Associate Editor of the New York Outlook. He has always been an enthusiastic, hunter, and was much interested in zooloiry and natural history. Among his publications are "War of 1812," 1882; : "Hunting Trips of a Ranchman," ! 1885 ; "Life of Thomas Hart Benton," , | 18SG; "Lifo of Governor Morris," _ 11887; "Ranch Life and the Hunting \\ Trail," 1888; "The Winning of <he | West," 1889-95; "The Wilderness • Hunter," 1893; "American Ideals," 1898; "The Rough Rulers," 18)9; 5 "The Strenuous Life," "Life of Croiu--1 ( well, "'Hie Deer Family," "The Out--3 j door Pastime« of an American Huntj or." and others. He lived at Oyster _ J Bay, Long Island, New York, and was t / married to Edith TCormit Oasow.