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. As to what sort of a revolver to buy?
A. To nobody. I didn't have to talk to nobody.
Q. How did you happen to get the 38?
A. I asked for it.
Q. Why didn't you ask for a 32?
A. I don't know. I tell you the other one I had home was a 38.
Q. Oh, you had another one home?
A. Oh, not now, that is years ago. If I had that home I didn't have to
buy it. I got the thing in storage. It is in the storage house if you
want to get it. Stored with the stuff.
Q. Where is your stuff stored?
A. In New York.
Q. Whereabouts?
A. 80th street, I guess, and Third avenue.
Q. Well, what warehouse?
A. Well, you got to wait now until my grip comes here from Charleston.
I got the whole thing.
Q. Have you sent for your grip?
A. I don't know. You gentlemen--told me that you are tending to that.
Q. Can't you give us the name of the warehouse?
A. I could not give it to you now.
Q. What have you stored there?
A. Five-room furniture from the old folks of mine.
Q. And your revolver?
A. Why, everything, of course, that belongs to the house.
Q. How long had you had that revolver?
A. I don't know. I could not tell you.
Q. Are you sure it is stored there?
A. Unless they stole it. I know I stored it there.
Q. Did you have a receipt for the different articles you stored there?
A. Sure. I can show you that as soon as--but of course the revolver is
not marked on that because the revolver is in one of the drawers, I
suppose.
Q. You don't know when you got that revolver?
A. I could not tell you.
Q. Have you ever shot it?
A. I shot it, I believe twice or three times during the 4th of July
celebration out in the yard.
Q. Had you ever shot this revolver?
A. No, sir.
Q. You shot it the other night. Where did you buy the bullets that went
in that gun?
A. The same place with the gun.
Q. How many cartridges did you have?
A. Did I have? Well, I bought a box of them and paid 55 cents for it.
Q. Where are the rest of the cartridges?
A. They are in the grip.
Q. Oh, they are in your grip in Charleston?
A. As soon as it comes over you can see it all.
Q. You didn't bring extra cartridges with you?
A. Yes, sir; I had. I took some out. I had five in the gun and I had
six with me in my pocket.
Q. Did they find those?
A. They have got it in the police station.
Q. They have got those cartridges in the police station. Now, who hit
your arm--did somebody hit your arm?
A. I don't think so.
Q. When you were coming--who was the first man to get hold of you--that
great big man?
A. I could not say who it was. I simply shot and I don't know whether I
hit the man or not or whom I hit, but I know the first thing I went
down and a whole lot on top.
Q. When you aimed the revolver at Roosevelt was there anybody standing
on each side of you?
A. Yes.
Q. Did you stick the gun between the heads of two people?
A. Yes.
Q. Did you say any word?
A. No, sir.
Q. When you fired?
A. No, sir; I said nothing.
Q. Talk---- Did you try to pull the trigger again?
A. No, sir.
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