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
Second: Inquiry by means of data furnished by the New York Police
Department, the Magistrate of Erding, Bavaria, reports furnished by the
Milwaukee Police Department and other officials brought in contact with
him, and certain documents furnished by the defendant himself, and
others found in his possession, some of which are herewith submitted as
exhibits, duly numbered.
Third: Summary and conclusions arrived at.
PERSONAL AND FAMILY HISTORY.
Age 36. Single. Born in Erding, Bavaria, March 5, 1876. Father born in
Bavaria, and mother born in Bavaria. Occupation, bar tender and
saloonkeeper. No regular occupation in the last one and one-half years.
Education, common schools in Bavaria from the seventh to the twelfth
year; three or four years in night school in New York, in English.
In early life a Roman Catholic; not a practical Catholic for the past
15 years.
His father died at the age of 38 of consumption; was a moderate
drinker; the mother living at the age of 56 or 57. One brother and
one sister living, in good health. One brother and one sister died
in infancy.
A sister of mother insane, suffered from delusions of persecution; died
of softening of the brain, so-called, in 1904, in Gabersee Asylum,
Bavaria. Certified by Magistrate of Erding, Bavaria.
Patient states he was never seriously sick. Knows of no serious
accident or injury. Never suffered from headaches.
Lived with grandparents from three to nine years of age; worked in a
vegetable garden during that time, and then returned to parents.
HABITS.
Denies excesses; no use of tobacco until two years ago, never more than
five or six cigars a day, average two or three cigars. Has generally
taken about five pint bottles of beer in twenty-four hours, of late
years. For two years, in 1902-1903, drank no intoxicants at all. He
states he drank to slight excess at most half a dozen times a year.
Never used drugs of any kind. Denies all venereal diseases, and
presents no physical evidence of them. His usual habit was to retire
before 10 o'clock at night.
PRESENT PHYSICAL STATE.
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