sitated until
it was too late.

And when he struck Milwaukee, he acted just like a boy afraid to coast
down a big hill, who, finally impelled by the taunts of his comrades,
closes his eyes and starts.

Look down through history and you find that the most atrocious crimes
were committed by weak persons of the same caliber as John Flammang
Schrank.

CHAPTER XII.

SCHRANK BEFORE CHIEF.

John Flammang Schrank was taken to the central police station,
Milwaukee, immediately upon his arrest in front of the Hotel
Gilpatrick. Under direction of Chief John T. Janssen, of the Milwaukee
police department, the following examination of Schrank was conducted:

Chief. What is your name?

A. Do I have to tell that tonight, sir?

Q. Yes.

A. I have to?

Q. Yes.

A. I have given the man below the promise I will do that tomorrow, tell
him all I know.

Q. Well, there is no reason for you to do that tomorrow, if you do it
this evening it will facilitate matters.

A. I suppose I will inconvenience someone by not telling.

Q. Yes, you are helping a good deal by telling.

A. Well, I come from New York.

Q. What is your name?

A. John Schrank.

Q. When did you come here from New York?

A. I left New York on the twenty-first of September and I left for
Charleston and I left my grip there in the Hotel Mosely; from
Charleston to Augusta and from there to Atlanta and from Atlanta I
think to Birmingham and over to Chattanooga, and from Chattanooga I
went to Nashville and then to Evansville, and then to Louisville, and
then to Chicago, and from Chicago here, and I arrived here Sunday at
one o'clock.

Q. Why did you go to all those places?

A. Because I wanted to meet that man.

Q. What man?

A. Theodore Roosevelt.

Q. How long have you lived in New York?

A. About twenty-five years.

Q. What is your business?

A. Well, I am not doing anything now, I have been in the liquor
business.

Q. Where?

A. In New York.

Q. What place?

A. Tenth street.

Q. Give us the number please?

A. Three hundred seventy, East Tenth street, between avenues B and C; I
have been with my uncle; my uncle's name is Flammang.

Q. Are you a married man?

A. No, sir.

Q. How long have you been in the liquor business?

A. Well, ever since I was a boy. My folks were in business the time I
come over here and I was twelve years old then.

Q. How old are you now?

A. Thirty-six.

Q. Well, what object did you have in