The Attempted Assassination of ex-President Theodore RooseveltRemey, Oliver E.
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The Attempted Assassination of ex-President Theodore Roosevelt
Remey, Oliver E.
Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919
Q. Did you tell anybody that you were going to leave your baggage
there?
A. I told them people I was going to stay away for about three days.
Q. Did you make any arrangement for them to send it in case you wrote
for it?
A. No, sir; I stopped there two days and paid eight dollars in advance
for a week's board, and I dressed up and went away and I told the
people I might be back in three days and of course ever since then they
didn't hear anything of me and I guess if they do hear and I can
communicate they will give it over and all perhaps they will charge is
the storage.
Q. Why did you tell them you were going to be gone three days?
A. I didn't think it would take longer than three days when I would be
away.
Q. Then you thought you would go back?
A. I thought I would be arrested, I couldn't tell.
Q. What does your grip contain?
A. Nothing but a suit of clothes and underwear and I got a deed to my
property and as I told you the box where the gun is in and that's about
all there is in.
Q. Are you a full citizen?
A. Sir?
Q. Are you a full citizen?
A. What does that mean?
Q. Got your second papers?
A. I never had my first, I come over here a minor; I got my papers when
I was twenty-one, I think my paper reads July twenty-third,
ninety-seven; I think that's what it reads.
Q. When did you first begin to think about this?
A. I began to think of it after the Chicago convention.
Q. What caused you to think of it?
A. I thought on account of calling a new convention and starting the
third party that makes anybody think; what's the use of being a citizen
if you don't take any interest in the politics of our country?
Q. What did you read in the paper that directed your mind to Mr.
Roosevelt?
A. You read a lot of things in the papers and especially in the New
York World; the New York World practically come out that the country is
in danger if he has the chair again.
Q. Did you read Harper's Weekly?
A. Harper's I don't read, no, sir.
Q. Did they say anything in particular that centered your attention on
this act?
A. No, sir; not at all, perhaps a million people read it and didn't
think anything and I just happened to read the matter over, I was
interested from there.
Q. Editorial page?
A. Editorial page.
Q. You remember any particular editorial?
A. No, sir; I do not remember. I could not repeat it.
Q. Well, did you read anything else in any other paper except the World
that made any impression on you of Mr. Roosevelt?
A. Well, in fact I have been following up all papers of the political
views and I have been taking out the World as the right thing, she is
right the way she talks and one paper I read, the New York Herald, and
she never speaks about Theodore Roosevelt but the third termer and she
don't mention his name, only the third termer.
Q. Did you ever apply for any position in the United States Government?
A. No, sir.
Q. Did you know Mr. Roosevelt when he was Police Commissioner?
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