LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

TABLE OF CONTENTS.

Page.
Preface [ 9]
Chronology [ 11]
Chapter I. The Shot is Fired [ 15]
Chapter II. Speaks to Great Audience [ 25]
Chapter III. Roosevelt in the Emergency [ 51]
Chapter IV. Careful of Collar Buttons [ 57]
Chapter V. Arrival at Mercy Hospital [ 64]
Chapter VI. Gets Back into Campaign [ 74]
Chapter VII. Back at Sagamore Hill [ 82]
Chapter VIII. Arrest, Appears in Court [ 91]
Chapter IX. Appears in Municipal Court [ 99]
Chapter X. Schrank Declared Insane [ 105]
Chapter XI. Shows Repentance But Once [ 112]
Chapter XII. Schrank Before Chief [ 117]
Chapter XIII. Witnesses of the Shooting [ 132]
Chapter XIV. A Second Examination [ 153]
Chapter XV. Report of the Alienists [ 192]
Chapter XVI. Finding of the Alienists [ 195]
Chapter XVII. Schrank Describes Shooting [ 202]
Chapter XVIII. Conclusion of Commission [ 208]
Chapter XIX. Schrank Discusses Visions [ 210]
Chapter XX. Schrank's Defense [ 213]
Chapter XXI. Schrank's Unwritten Laws [ 224]
Chapter XXII. Unusual Court Precedent [ 235]

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PREFACE.

At 8:10 o'clock on the night of Oct. 14, 1912, a shot was fired the echo of which swept around the entire world in thirty minutes.