Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 131, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 June 1916 — Knife Hurling Incident Was Joke, K. C. Police Assert. [ARTICLE]

Knife Hurling Incident Was Joke, K. C. Police Assert.

Kansas City, May 31. —The police brand the so-called “attempted assassination” of Colonel Roosevelt as a hoax, the work of news fakers, carefully rehearsed in advance with a knife introduced as a stage property to give it color, according to a story printed here today. Patrolmer\, in the guard around the visitor, the story says, were unaware of any untoward incident until the man who turned the weapon over to the police stooped over the running board of the automobile in which the colonel was riding and then handed a small pocket knife to one of the officers. The blade Was closed.