As another Lame Cherry exclusive in matter anti matter.
John Flammang Schrank was the individual who attempted to assassinate President Theodore Roosevelt in Wisconsin. Except for the hand of God, Theodore Roosevelt would have been murdered.
Schrank used a large frame 44 revolver, firing a 38 Long Colt cartridge, which at 5 feet, went through a heavy coat, suspenders, an eye glass case, and 100 sheets of speech which were folded over, before it struck a rib, and skirted 4 inches into the chest.
The bullet was flattened or skewed, so it perhaps deflected some off the eye case, and upon striking the rib was then on a trajectory of not piercing the lung, which would have killed Roosevelt in minutes.
Schrank was deemed by the court as insane, a paranoid. He had with him though a short note, and it is of interest what was driving this man, being driven by the GOP President Taft and the democrat Woodrow Wilson press, in incessant attacks upon "third termer" Theodore Roosevelt.
In the following, Schrank was exhibiting Paranoid Schitzophrenia, in seeing things and hearing voices.
""To the People of the United States: "September 15, 1901—1:30 A.M.
"In a dream I saw President McKinley sit up in his coffin pointing at a man in a monk's attire in whom I recognized Theodore Roosevelt. The dead president said—This is my murderer—avenge my death. "September 14, 1912—1:30 A.M.
"While writing a poem some one tapped me on the shoulder and said—let not a murderer take the presidential chair, avenge my death. I could clearly see Mr. McKinley's features.
Before the Almighty God, I swear that the above written is nothing but the truth.
"So long as Japan could rise to be one of the greatest powers of the world despite her surviving a tradition more than 2,000 years old, as Gen. Nogi demonstrated, it is the duty of the United States of America to see that the third termer be regarded as a traitor to the American cause. Let it be the right and duty of every citizen to forcibly remove a third termer. "Never let a third term party emblem appear on an official ballot. I am willing to die for my country.
God has called me to be his instrument, so help me God. "Innocent—Guilty."
Oliver Remey; Henry Cochems; Wheeler Bloodgood. The Attempted Assassination of ex-President Theodore Roosevelt
I forensic psychology it is of great interest how dreams and visions are constructed, as much as stated motives of fixation.
McKinley in a dream points to Roosevelt in 'monk's attire', which is a Catholic garb, and Roosevelt was not Catholic. For reasons of exposure to past things associated with evil, Schrank saw a monk as an evil entity. Schrank was an immigrant Bavarian Catholic, but had not been practicing his religion for 15 years.
One finds a hint of "American self hatred" in his championing a rising Japan to be a world power. Schrank was choosing Japan over America, as America in some form had harmed Shrank in his own psyche.
The harm seems to be part of the downfall of his family when TR was police commissioner and New York started shutting down liquor establishments which Schrank's family operated. Schrank had been unemployed for over a year and a half.
All of this culiminated in the reality of the "3rd Termer" in a dehumanizing epitaph of Theodore Roosevelt must be stopped, and Schrank's carte blanche was God had chosen him to protect America from this third term.
Schrank had been busily moving about and stalking Theodore Roosevelt. The assassin had a list of 9 hotels he had apparently stayed at.
"Mosely hotel, Charleston, S. C.; Planters hotel, Augusta, Ga.; Childs' hotel, Atlanta, Ga.; Plaza hotel, Birmingham, Ala.; Redmon hotel, Chattanooga, Tenn.; Third Avenue hotel, Rome, Tenn.; Bismark hotel, Nashville, Tenn.; Station hotel, Evansville, Ind., and the Normandy hotel, Louisville, Ky."
After his first court appearance, his bail was set at 7500 dollars, and later raised to 15,000 dollars for a December trial.
The District Attorney Winnifred Zabel, who was the only elected socialist in America, issued the following statement:
"So far as I have been able to determine from several examinations, John Schrank is legally sane,"
He has a perfect knowledge of right and wrong and realizes that the act he committed was against the law. Medically he may have a slight aberration, but only experts could determine that."
Oliver Remey; Henry Cochems; Wheeler Bloodgood. The Attempted Assassination of ex-President Theodore Roosevelt
The bullets were tested at Marquette University by court order to ascertain if they had been poisoned. As Theodore Roosevelt survived, it was evident that Schrank did not go to those extremes. The reason the poison bullet scenario was raised by a reporter was that President McKinley was assassinated by a poison bullet.
Original bail was 5000 dollars, but the court on mention of the poison bullet raised bail to the mentioned 7500 dollars
In court, Schrank was not in hurry for a speedy trial, but remained quiet and calm.
"You are charged with assault with intent to kill and murder," said District Attorney Zabel. "What do you plead, guilty or not guilty?"
"I am guilty," answered Schrank quietly."
Oliver Remey; Henry Cochems; Wheeler Bloodgood. The Attempted Assassination of ex-President Theodore Roosevelt
Schrank registered at all the hotels under the name "Albert Ross". A name of typical strong American character.
In a questioning session, Schrank mentioned that he had been engaged to a girl in New York, named Elsie Ziegler. The name indicates a Germanic background.
Miss Ziegler had perished in one of the horrifying disasters which had grabbed national attention in the General Slocum steamboat diaster in which 1000 people had been killed.
When asked if the death of his fiance had anything to do with his actions, Schrank became extremely emotional and aggitated, stated, "She had nothing to do with it. She was a beautiful girl and I want you to understand that her soul is cleared from any part of this act."
Attorney James C. Flanders of Milwaukee was Schrank's court appointed attorney, and the court appointed;
Dr. F. C. Studley, Dr. W. F. Becker, Dr. Richard Dewey, Dr. W. F. Wegge, and Dr. D. W. Harrington, all of Milwaukee;
to ascertain Schrank's mental condition.
Schrank was interesting in his court arraignment hearing to be charged, for as the Judge read out the charge of murder, Schrank stated he was guilty.
Schrank then began constructing a "moral excuse", in he claimed he was 'guilty of the shooting'.
When asked if he intended to kill Theodore Roosevelt, Schrank then stated he did not intend to kill "citizen Roosevelt".
When asked if he intended to kill candidate Roosevelt, Schrank clarified again in stating he intended to kill Theodore Roosevelt the "third termer".
Schrank went on to clarify, that he did not intend to kill the Progressive party candidate, but only to shoot Roosevelt as a warning to all other 3rd term candidates.
Conspiracy theories were ripe even in 1912 AD in the year of our Lord, as there were those who believed that Schrank was a tool of the big interests, and that Schrank had chosen Wisconsin in having no death penalty and having the only socialist elected in America as the prosecutor.
Upon being found insane by the experts, the court placed Schrank into Oshkosh Northern Hospital for the Insane. There Schrank was to be housed, and if in the future found to be sane, would then be returned to court to be tried on the charges of murder.
Shrank's statement on his own lucidity was telling in he wanted his "medicine" of a trial then, and not later after a "recovery". His words state quite lucidly what John Shrank was mentally.
"I want to say now that I am sane, and know what I am doing all the time. I am not a lunatic, and never was one."
Oliver Remey; Henry Cochems; Wheeler Bloodgood. The Attempted Assassination of ex-President Theodore Roosevelt
Schrank's cover was that of a newspaper man on an investigating story. He drank 6 beers at a saloon from three o'clock on in he afternoon. He was deemed dazed, but not intoxicated at his capture.
At 7 o'clock, he returned to bar, asked for a song with stripes in it according to the bartender, which was the Star Spangled Banner, and then bought everyone a drink.
Schrank danced around the bar to the tune.
In an odd paparazzi event, the bail of 15,000 dollars was going to be posted by the movie industry moguls of the day, to bail out Schrank and have him re enact the shooting. The District Attorney then stated that no bail would be accepted, as while he understood the reasons of the moguls, Zabel was not going to allow young people to worship Schrank as a hero on film.
While in jail, an evangelist named Rev. Cavanam conducted as service. Schrank attended, but this was odd as previously he had desired no contact with Christian Endeavorers.
Schrank returned to his cell and was observed by inmates on his knees, and upon standing was more interactive with the other inmates who ostracized him on having shot the President.
Of interest, Schrank listened intently to an address by Gustav Struber in German, making certain to shake hands with the speaker before he left.
Schrank was deemed a "monmaniac", the most dangerous of mentally deranged in being perfectly sane in every other matter, but on one fixed case being insane and acting out in murder.
He had partial paralysis of his eyelids, which made him squint, and gave him the appearance of being an ethnic of Negroid or Indian origin.
Notes indicated in conversations that Schrank was extremely well informed on American politics. It indicates he might have been a partial idiot savant in this, for he had an in depth knowledge of the intricacies.
What is more certain is that Schrank hesistated in Chattanooga with his pistol, and at the Hotel La Salle in Chicago, he also could not go through with the assassination attempt.
He was 12 years old when he came to America, joining his immigrant parents who were in the liquor business, and for the next 25 years worked under his Uncle, whose name was Flammang.
He was from Erding, Bavaria.
Schrank owned property in New York, a 10 room house, which he stated had a value of 25,000 dollars.
He was fixated on his "history" of America, in stating from the papers that a Civil War would start in the west as Theodore Roosevelt had the nomination stolen from him. Schrank concluded that US Grant had been denied a third term and accepted it, and Roosevelt should have too.
The revolver he purchased as for 14 dollars and bought at a gun shop in New York City.
While Schrank claimed no party affiliation, he voted democrat at least twice against Theodore Roosevelt. He also voted Tammany Hall for democrat protection in New York, but voted Republican for president, as long as Roosevelt was not running.
His mother's sister, suffered from delusions of persecution, and suffered from "brain softening" which killed her. Schrank lived with his grandparents in Germany from age 3 to age 9.
Schrank was a 5 feet 4 1/2 inches tall blonde, grey eyed, Bavarian German. His medical information is interesting in he had a slight yellowish coating on his tongue, and he seemed to be running a fever a few months after the shooting.
Blood pressure 125 to 130 systolic; 115 to 120 diastolic. Pulse 82-86. Temperature Nov. 12, 1912, P.M., 99.4. Nov. 14, normal.
Oliver Remey; Henry Cochems; Wheeler Bloodgood. The Attempted Assassination of ex-President Theodore Roosevelt
He is listed as having a slight tremor of fingers and lips when he was excited.
In Schrank's mind, he based all Americanism on the Four Pillars, which are not spoken of today.
"The Four Pillars of our Republic," namely
(1) the Third Term Tradition,
(2) the Monroe Doctrine,
(3) that only a Protestant by creed can become president,
(4) no wars of conquest.
This document, hereunto annexed as Exhibit 1, fully sets forth his views on these subjects. These "four unwritten laws" had assumed in his mind a character of sacredness.
They were "sacred traditions" to be maintained at all hazards, and, as subsequently appeared, even the hazard of life.
Oliver Remey; Henry Cochems; Wheeler Bloodgood. The Attempted Assassination of ex-President Theodore Roosevelt
The extemporaneous Constitution appears to be what John Schrank based his identity of an American or America is.
The following is the Schrank Manifesto, which was not written but espoused by him. It is a most interesting flow of American Realities fused with the Immanuel Kant philosophy of the "Ends Justify the Means".
This document of the 4 Pillars would become the "bible" of John Flammang Schrank of his absolutes, in which he based his entire life, in a life and death matter of America.
The composer of the document is the maestro who directed the lone nut to act out.
"Tradition is an unwritten law."
"I would doubt the right of a court to have jurisdiction over a man who had defended tradition of his country against violation."
"The oldest of these traditions is the 'third term tradition,' it has never been violated and is an effective safeguard against unscrupulous ambition, but never before has been established a test case of its inviolability as a warning to coming adventurers."
"For the first time in American history we are confronted by a man to whom practically nothing is sacred, and he pretends to stand above tradition."
"Anybody who finances a Third Term Movement should be expatriated and his wealth confiscated."
"The dangers in this campaign are these, the third termer is sure that the nomination has been stolen, and that the country and the job belongs to him, therefore, if he gets honestly defeated in November he will again yell that the crooks of both parties have stolen the election and should he carry a solid West, he and the hungry office-seekers would not hesitate to take up arms to take by force what is denied him by the people, then we face a Civil War, * * * * * * and that he who wilfully invites war deserves death. We would then be compelled to wash out the sin of violating the Third Term with the blood of our sons. Yet this is not the gravest danger we are facing. We have allowed an adventurer to circumtravel the Union with military escort with the torch of revolution in his hands to burn down the very house we live in."
"Have we learned no lesson about a one man's rule experienced in France with such disastrous results as the end of the reign of Napoleon I and Napoleon III."
"Are we trying to establish here a system like our ancestors have done in Europe, which all revolutions of a thousand years could not abolish."
"Are we overthrowing our Republic, while the heroes of the French revolutions, and the martyrs of 1848 gladly gave their lives to establish Republican institutions."
"The abolition of the Third Term tradition is the abolition of the Monroe doctrine also."
"Hardly any revolution has started without pretending that their movement was progressive."
"The prudence of our forefathers has delivered to us an equally sacred unwritten law which reads that no president should embrace another creed than Protestant, if possible, a sect of the English Church.
I am a Roman Catholic. I love my religion but I hate my church as long as the Roman parish is not independent from Rome, as long as Catholic priests are prevented from getting married, as long as Rome is still more engaged in politics and accumulation of money contrary to the teachings of the Lord. The Roman Catholic Church is not the religion for a president of the United States."
"The Fourth unwritten law, which is practically supplementary to the second, we find in George Washington's Farewell Address, where he advises us to live in peace with your neighbor. We have no right to start a war of conquest." In his examination in this connection he stated as follows: "Four-fifths of the United States would take up arms to defend the Third
Oliver Remey; Henry Cochems; Wheeler Bloodgood. The Attempted Assassination of ex-President Theodore Roosevelt (Kindle Locations 2327-2333). Term tradition. Trying to get perpetual power and dictatorship would justify killing."
He also said he would be justified to the same extent, that is, by killing, a man who would seek the presidency and was a Roman Catholic; and also for a man who would start a war for conquest; and he thought also of the possibility of foreign powers to help Roosevelt possibly to annex the Panama Canal and break down the Monroe Doctrine. He said he believed the country would be facing a civil war if Roosevelt went on as he had done.
He gives as a reason for his present attack upon Roosevelt, that he did not wish to give him (Roosevelt) an opportunity to plead that no defense of the Third Term tradition had been made in 1912 should he aspire to another term in 1916.
Asked as to how he reconciled his act with the commandment "Thou shalt not kill," he replied that, "religion is the fundamental law of human order, but to kill to try and do a good thing, and to avenge McKinley's murder, justifies the killing."
The proof of his position came to him in his dream and in his vision. "Roosevelt's ambition and conduct proves to every man that he was back of McKinley's assassination in some way or other."
Oliver Remey; Henry Cochems; Wheeler Bloodgood. The Attempted Assassination of ex-President Theodore Roosevelt
Schrank on the anniversary of his 'monk dream' of September 15th, awoke in the night and composed a poem which retraces to his impressionable childhood where poetry was first delved into. One can see the theme in to be a man was to strike back.
Be a Man
1. Be a man from early to late When you rise in the morning Till you go to bed Be a man.
2. Is your country in danger And you are called to defend Where the battle is hottest And death be the end Face it and be a man.
3. When you fail in business And your honor is at stake When you bury all your dearest And your heart would break Face it and be a man.
4. But when night draws near And you hear a knock And a voice should whisper your Time is up; Refuse to answer As long as you can Then face it and be a man.
The psychological examination concluded Schrank was insane, even if he was sane or lucid. Their findings were the reality:
"The defendant says that he prayed God to find a leader among men who would take this responsibility, and he expected all along someone else would do this thing, but no one did it, and as he was a single man of 36, without a family, and thought the deed was a good deed, and it made no difference to him, he was willing to sacrifice his life for that end, even if he were torn to pieces by the mob. He therefore concluded that it was his mission, and desired to make of this a test case."
Oliver Remey; Henry Cochems; Wheeler Bloodgood. The Attempted Assassination of ex-President Theodore Roosevelt
Schrank was quite lucid. He did not want to shoot Roosevelt in New York as that would look as if Wall Street had hired him. He did not want to shoot Roosevelt in Chicago, as that would mean an outsider came to Chicago to sully the city.
His response to his reasoning in all of this was the belief in he was right and all opposed were wrong, because he lumped himself with the Prophets who had seen visions.
"I presume you men would declare Joan d'Arc, the Maid of Orleans insane because the Holy Virgin appeared to her in a vision." "When we read that God had appeared to Moses in the shape of a burning thorn bush, then again as a cloud, we will find many people who doubt the appearance of God to man in human or other shape."
Oliver Remey; Henry Cochems; Wheeler Bloodgood. The Attempted Assassination of ex-President Theodore Roosevelt
The formulation of Schrank's ideology came down to what he judged as reality. Schrank deemed his dream of McKinley a "revelation" which was absolute. It tied directly into the message of the "mother of all monarchies", a term which Schrank utilized to entitle the Vatican.
Schrank's mind had a dream years before on the night of McKinley's assassination, and it told him Theodore Roosevelt was the culprit, dressed as a monk of Rome.
TR rising in success and power as Schrank failed, became the threat, and by insinuation was then linked to Rome according to Schrank's own statement to the jury.
"Whoever the direct murderer of President McKinley has been it could never be proven that he has ever been affiliated with any anarchistic or similar society, but we may well conclude that the man who in years after willingly violated the third unwritten law of the country whenever he thought it profitable to change his creed while president, perhaps to the mother of monarchies."
Oliver Remey; Henry Cochems; Wheeler Bloodgood. The Attempted Assassination of ex-President Theodore Roosevelt
The conclusion of the Alienists, or psychiatrists was that Schrank was insane, and this was after a most vivid spiritual discourse which Schrank composed which was lucid in all form.
ALIENISTS' CONCLUSIONS. Our conclusions are as follows: First—John Schrank is suffering from insane delusions, grandiose in character, and of the systematized variety. Second—In our opinion he is insane at the present time. Third—On account of the connection existing between his delusions and the act with which he stands charged, we are of the opinion that he is unable to confer intelligently with counsel or to conduct his defense.
Dated, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Nov. 22nd, 1912. Respectfully submitted, Richard Dewey, M. D., Chairman. W. F. Becker, M. D. D. W. Harrington, M. D. Frank Studley, M. D. Wm. F. Wegge, M. D. Commissioners.
John Schrank was not insane, but he based what he had faith in as to be conclusive in a dream. Schrank was not an anarchist, but a person who used the 4 Pillars to conclude that Theodore Roosevelt was thee enemy of the American state.
His defense as he wrote it, was that he was guilty of executing an enemy of America, but not guilty of shooting Theodore Roosevelt, as Schrank was killing the Third Termer, and not a Citizen.
"Gentlemen of the jury, when on September 14 last during a vision I looked into the dying eyes of the late President McKinley, when a voice called me to avenge his death, I was convinced that my life was coming soon to an end, and I was at once happy to know that my real mission on this earth was to die for my country and the cause of Republicanism."
In not any way seeking to impugn Barry Goldwater in stating that there was not such a thing as extremism in the defense of liberty, this is what John Schrank was in a strict constructionist in which traditions were law.
He took writings and made them a law to his conduct.
Theodore Roosevelt violated the Washington Tradition of no third term, but only on grounds of having left the White House and then running again later, not in succession as his Constitutional violator cousin, Franklin Roosevelt overthrew America with.
Schrank's dream was nothing on it's own, but couple it years later with Teddy Roosevelt running for a third term as a Bull Moose, the aggitation of the cartel press intent on starting German Genocide against Theodore Roosevelt, and the matter that those who violated the Four Pillars were enemies of the Constitution, then as Bismark stated, "It is always easy to find a lone nut."
The lone nut is created by manipulation and not born that way.
This is another Lame Cherry exclusive in matter anti matter, a great deal more in depth than anything you will be reading or hearing, save this blog. You are gaining perspective and understanding of history in all of this beyond the cut and paste you are led around by.
John Flammang Schrank was a conspiracy, but in the way of the cartel understood that if enough aggitation was produced in the press, that several minds on the edge would go over that edge and murder the target.
On the dream of his political father, President McKinley, John Flammang Schrank convicted the monk robed Theodore Roosevelt, and losing the Catholic robe, Schrank clothed Roosevelt in the robe of political assassination as chosen by Roosevelt's cartel backed opponents, to have John Schrank pull the trigger.
A most fascinating study of cause and effect.
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