Q. Did you ever contribute anything to the Republican campaign fund? A. No, sir; I had no reason. Q. Was ever any contribution solicited of you by Tammany Hall or by the Police? A. No, sir. Q. Now isn't it a fact that a good deal of your feeling against Roosevelt was created by what you read in the papers? A. It was not created, no, sir. Q. Well, was it to a large measure influential? A. I could not just deny that it had some influence but not to be decisive. Q. Not decisive. A. No, sir. Q. Didn't it make you feel angry and unfriendly? A. Not any worse than what I was. Q. Didn't make you feel any worse or more unfriendly? A. No, sir. Q. Toward Roosevelt? Mr. Bloodgood: Q. How long have you been reading the New York Herald? A. Oh, I believe since I am able to read. Q. And the World? A. Also. Q. Now you said the other evening that papers you principally read were those two--was that correct? A. Correct. Q. Now did you read them during August of this year. You were in New York then? A. Yes, sir. Q. And state what impressed you in particular--what you saw in the New York Herald in August--at about that time of the formation of the new progressive party in Chicago? A. Well, in fact I cannot remember much. I could not be very much impressed by the New York Herald because the Herald is a very conservative paper. The Herald is not what they call the Yellow press and the only excuse the Herald had is simply to say, Well, the Third Termer, that is all. Q. Now what in the New York World impressed you during that time? A. From that time? Q. During that time. A. Well, as I have said before, there was no special impression nohow. It was only the same as anybody else could read, which was to be found in the editorials or the man was building up a new party and was deserting and he cries that he stole the nomination away from him, such as that; as anybody else would read. That didn't make any serious impression on me. Q. Now, when did you write out these statements that was in your pocket? A. On the 14th of September. Q. Wrote it all out on that day? A. Yes, sir. Q. Every bit of it? A. Yes, sir. Q. From the beginning to the end? Answer my question. A. Yes, sir. Q. Yes, or no? A. Yes, sir. Q. And the very statements the police found in your pocket was written by you and all of it on the 14th day of September, 1912? A. Yes, sir. Q. Now in your pocket was found a statement in regard to the various places that Col. Roosevelt was to speak. Where did you get that from? A. Oh, every day in the papers. Just as I followed the towns. I generally bought a paper there the same day or the next morning and that would just about give me the information where I could meet him next. Q. That was in your own handwriting, that statement? [Illustration: Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt. From "Vanity Fair"] A. Yes, sir. Q. The other night when you were examined with reference to that you said you hadn't written it out?