Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 174, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 July 1914 — schrank, Who Shot Roosevelt, Growing Worst Mentally. [ARTICLE]

schrank, Who Shot Roosevelt, Growing Worst Mentally.

Milwaukee, * Wis., July 24.—John Schrank, who attempted to assassinate Col. Roosevelt In Milwaukee in October, 1912, probably never will be tried on the charge of assault with intent to kill, according to Judge A. C. Backus, of the Municipal Court, who today received word from physicians in the eriminally insane department of the state prison at Waupun that Schrank is daily growing worse from a mental standpoint The assault charge still stands against the prisoner and he can not be tried until he is pronounced sane - „