e hotel
trying to keep the crowd back.

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Francis E. Davidson, chairman of the Milwaukee County Progressive
committee, made the following statements to District Attorney Zabel on
Oct. 16:

Mr. Bloodgood called me over to his office and said that I was to take
charge of the Roosevelt meeting in the Auditorium. Among other duties,
I was to inform the police department and ask for protection for Col.
Roosevelt while he was in the city. I went to the office of the chief
of police with Paul Heyl, sergeant-at-arms, two days before the
meeting. The chief of police was not in, but I was sent to the
inspector. We told him that we wanted police protection at the depot,
on the streets and at the Hotel Gilpatrick for Col. Roosevelt, which
was promised. In going away I did not think that he attached enough
importance to what I told him, and I went back and asked him on account
of conditions in the country I wanted extra police protection for the
Colonel, and was informed that he had taken care of Col. Roosevelt
before.

(Mr. Zabel)--When this car arrived in Milwaukee, what police protection
was visible to you?

(Answer)--I think there were two or three policemen down at the station
in uniform.

(Mr. Zabel)--Were there any plain clothes men that you recognized?

(Answer)--Not that I recognized.

(Mr. Zabel)--Are you familiar with them?

(Answer)--No.

(Mr. Zabel)--Where were they stationed?

(Answer)--One in front of the depot and one at the gate.

(Mr. Zabel)--Was the ex-President obliged to pass through the depot on
his way out?

(Answer)--No, through the small gate.

I told Mr. Bloodgood that we had made arrangements which would prevent
any one calling on Col. Roosevelt at the hotel, having a private room
and also police protection.

(Mr. Zabel)--What protection did you notice when you came there?

(Answer)--I noticed a policeman at the door. There may have been plain
clothes men.

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The following statement was made to District Attorney Zabel on Oct. 16,
by Thomas Taylor, who was in the automobile with Col. Roosevelt:

We had the honor of escorting the ex-President in our machine from the
depot to the Gilpatrick. We left him there and we kept the machine in
front of the main part of the hotel door all the time. While Mr. Moss
was away I remained with the machine, and when he came back I went into
t