- Newspaper Man: Extra, extra, read all about it!
- Narrator: John Schrank fired a revolver point-blank
at Col. Teddy Roosevelt Monday night, and inflicted a wound
in his right breast.
Roosevelt was leaving for the auditorium to deliver a speech.
As he took his seat in the automobile,
Schrank whipped out a pistol and fired at Col. Roosevelt.
When the colonel was asked if he were hurt, he replied,
"Oh, no, missed me that time."
One of his secretaries exclaimed, "Look, Colonel,
there's a hole in your overcoat!"
Roosevelt thrust his hand beneath it;
his fingers were stained with blood.
Fortunately for Roosevelt, the speech in his pocket
and a metal spectacle case had saved his life.
The bullet, its force spent by having passed through the paper
and case, did not make a serious wound.
Despite the advice of his physicians,
Roosevelt said, "I will make this speech or die."
When the audience's applause had died down,
the colonel showed them the bloodstain on his clothing
and shouted, "It takes more than that to kill a bull moose!"
Milwaukee Daily News, October 15, 1912.
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