Preface 9 Chronology 11 Chapter I. The Shot is Fired 15 Chapter II. Speaks to Great Audience 25 Chapter III. Roosevelt in the Emergency 51 Chapter IV. Careful of Collar Buttons 57 Chapter V. Arrival at Mercy Hospital 64 Chapter VI. Gets Back into Campaign 74 Chapter VII. Back at Sagamore Hill 82 Chapter VIII. Arrest, Appears in Court 91 Chapter IX. Appears in Municipal Court 99 Chapter X. Schrank Declared Insane 105 Chapter XI. Shows Repentance But Once 112 Chapter XII. Schrank Before Chief 117 Chapter XIII. Witnesses of the Shooting 132 Chapter XIV. A Second Examination 153 Chapter XV. Report of the Alienists 192 Chapter XVI. Finding of the Alienists 195 Chapter XVII. Schrank Describes Shooting 202 Chapter XVIII. Conclusion of Commission 208 Chapter XIX. Schrank Discusses Visions 210 Chapter XX. Schrank's Defense 213 Chapter XXI. Schrank's Unwritten Laws 224 Chapter XXII. Unusual Court Precedent 235 PREFACE. At 8:10 o'clock on the night of Oct. 14, 1912, a shot was fired the echo of which swept around the entire world in thirty minutes. An insane man attempted to end the life of the only living ex-president of the United States and the best known American. The bullet failed of its mission. Col. Theodore Roosevelt, carrying the leaden missile intended as a pellet of death in his right side, has recovered. He is spared for many more years of active service for his country. John Flammang Schrank, the mad man who fired the shot, is in the Northern Hospital for the Insane at Oshkosh, Wis., pronounced by a commission of five alienists a paranoiac. If he recovers he will face trial for assault with intent to kill. This little book presents an accurate story of the attempt upon the life of the ex-president. The aim of those who present it is that, being an accurate narrative, it shall be a contribution to the history of the United States.