d was made on
Oct. 16 to District Attorney Zabel:

As the acting national committee man of the Progressive party in
Wisconsin, I called a meeting of the Executive Committee in connection
with the address to be made by Col. Roosevelt in Milwaukee, Oct. 14. By
direction of the committee, F. E. Davidson, county chairman of
Milwaukee County of the Progressive party, was put in charge of
arrangements for the meeting, and was directed to lease the main hall
of the Auditorium in Milwaukee for the evening of Oct. 14.

After Mr. Davidson, who accompanied Mr. Norman L. Baker, state
chairman, in engaging the hall and making other arrangements, had made
his report, I discussed with him the question of proper police
protection for Col. Roosevelt and his party while they were in
Milwaukee, and Mr. Davidson informed me that he and Mr. Paul Heyl, whom
he had appointed sergeant-at-arms, had taken this matter up with the
police department of Milwaukee.

I went to Chicago on the morning of Oct. 14th, accompanied by H. E.
Miles and others. Col. Roosevelt and his party came to Milwaukee. On
the train from Chicago to Milwaukee I advised Colonel Lyon, of Texas,
who was in charge of Col. Roosevelt's person, that we would be met at
the depot in Milwaukee by Mr. Davidson, who was in charge of the
arrangements for the meeting, and by others, and that they would
request that Col. Roosevelt have his supper, at least, at the Hotel
Gilpatrick. I advised them that Mr. Davidson had made all of the
arrangements in Milwaukee for the meeting of the Colonel, and his care,
between the time of his reaching the city and the holding of the
meeting at the Auditorium. Col. Lyon and O. K. Davis strongly objected
to Col. Roosevelt leaving his car, and said it was there that he should
have his dinner and go directly from the car to the Auditorium.

When the Colonel's car reached Racine, Capt. Girard got on the train
and spoke to me in reference to his acting as the Colonel's bodyguard
while he was in Milwaukee. My recollection is that the Colonel was in
the back part of the car when the captain got on board, and he at once
recognized the captain and spoke to him as though he were greeting an
old friend. Then Capt. Girard had a talk with Col. Lyon and Mr. O. K.
Davis, and it was understood that the captain would be with the Colonel
during the whole time he was in Milwaukee, and it was understood that
he was in charge of the Colonel's person.

When the train re