hat was not right?

A. Anybody encroaches on your right you think it is not right.

Q. How long ago was that?

A. Eighty-six he ran for Mayor against Henry George, I think it was
nine-three or ninety-four.

Q. Did the fact of that act of his, of closing you up on Sunday, have
anything to do with what you done tonight?

A. No, sir.

[Illustration: Dr. Joseph Colt Bloodgood, Johns Hopkins University.]

Q. You never felt kindly toward him?

A. Yes, sir; I did until he started a third party.

Q. You thought he was infringing on your right?

A. Well, on everybody's right, every citizen's right, he had no right
to do that; he could start a party and nominate every officer in there,
but not put himself on for a third term, that was no way to do.

Q. Did you vote for him in nineteen hundred four or for Parker?

A. I voted Democratic.

Q. Parker?

A. Yes, sir.

Q. You a member of Tammany?

A. No, I am not a member, I am not a member of any political party;
when they arrested me one man called me a Socialist.

Q. Did you oppose him in nineteen hundred four?

A. I voted against him; I never expected the man to draw as big a
majority as he did.

Q. Did you make speeches against him?

A. No, sir.

Q. Talk against him?

A. The same as anybody else.

Q. You thought he wasn't liberal?

A. He was not liberal.

Q. You didn't like his attitude, you were against him?

A. Yes, sir.

CHAPTER XIII.

WITNESSES OF THE SHOOTING.

The following statements of Wheeler P. Bloodgood, representing the
Progressive National committee; F. E. Davidson, Milwaukee county
chairman of the Progressive party, Capt. A. O. Girard and others set
forth arrangements for Col. Roosevelt's speech in the Auditorium on the
night of October 14, 1912, and present many facts concerning the
shooting of Col. Roosevelt not before made public.

These statements were made to District Attorney W. C. Zabel during the
examination of Schrank conducted by him on Oct. 16.

The purpose of this hearing was to ascertain if possible whether others
were with Schrank in the plot to kill the ex-president.

While the examination developed a second man who was very anxious to
get close to Col. Roosevelt during his stay in the Gilpatrick, no other
evidence concerning this second man's connection with the shooting was
developed.

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The following statement by Attorney Wheeler P. Bloodgoo