e the night he
shot the ex-President. Then his clothing was torn and bedraggled, his
hair unkempt, face unshaven and his expression wild.

[Illustration: Johnston Emergency Hospital, Milwaukee.]

In Municipal court he was neatly dressed in a carefully pressed suit of
blue serge, shoes shined, clean linen and spotless white tie, with a
white handkerchief peeping out of a side coat pocket. He had been
cleanly shaven and his hair was carefully pasted down, while in his
hands he carried a new fedora hat and a raincoat.

As he was led to the front of the courtroom by Deputy Sheriff Albert
Melms, everyone in the crowd stared at him, but the prisoner walked
with a firm step, and looked neither to the right nor left. It was only
when he was called before the bar and asked to plead, that he wavered,
and then only for an instant. Judge Backus ordered him to stand and
listen to the charge made against him, reciting that "John Schrank, on
Oct. 14, with malice aforethought, did attempt to kill and murder
Theodore Roosevelt."

"What do you plead to that, guilty or not guilty?" asked District
Attorney W. C. Zabel.

"I plead guilty to the shooting," answered the prisoner in a voice that
was slightly husky.

"Did you intend to kill Theodore Roosevelt?" asked Mr. Zabel.

Here the prisoner's voice became steady again, and he answered:

"I did not intend to kill the citizen Roosevelt."

"Did you intend to kill the candidate Roosevelt?"

"I intended to kill Theodore Roosevelt, the third termer," was the
answer. "I did not want to kill the candidate of the Progressive party.
I shot Roosevelt as a warning to other third termers."

"There we have it," broke in the court, and Schrank was told that he
might take his seat.

District Attorney Zabel moved that the court either appoint a
commission of alienists to examine Schrank or have him tried before a
jury. Judge Backus announced that he would appoint a commission of five
experts at 2 o'clock, and took a recess, ordering the deputies to take
Schrank back to the county jail. As the prisoner arose to leave many of
those in the courtroom rushed for the door, but all fell back when the
court said:

"Let no man leave the courtroom until the prisoner has left the city
hall."

At the afternoon session Schrank was simply brought in and allowed to
sit at one of the tables. When the physicians who are to examine him
arose to be sworn, he eyed them curiously, but evinced no outward sig