The President-elect, refusing to return to the north until te knew the probable fate of his friend, remained on his yacht here while President Herbert Hoover and thousands of others sent telegrams of congratulation to Mr. Roosevelt and condolences to those who were wounded.
The huge crowd saw the would-assassin rise from his seat among the gre throng that had gathered to hear the President-elect give a brief address, after which Mrs M. J. Cross leapt towards him and caught hold of is arm, causing him to raise his pistol. The bullet passed over Mr. Roosevelt's head while he was in the act of sitting down after concluding his talk.
Mr, Roosevelt was standing in a touring car while he spoke, crowd and saw very little.
'After visiting the patients in the hospital, Mr. Roosevelt telephoned /10"Siv Roosevelt at their' home Amid shouts of "Kill him: and "Lynch him!" there was a rush for the gunman but, before he went down, he had fired all six shots from his newly-purchased revolver, five of which found human, targets. The five who fell and who were taken to hospital, where they were later visited by the Presidenteect, were. x yor of Mr. Anton Cermak, Mayor of Joe Git, wife of the president of the Plorida Light and Power Mr. Franklin D. Roosevelt Mik" Margaret Cruise, of Newark, N. J. William Sinnott, New York detective guards the President. near New York, telling her the details, She was entirely calm, Mr. eet, Rossel Caldwet, Miami, aged atiest of Me, Perma, "Sitar Grae bullet passed the
Yeas struck in the forehead "and Bir: Sinnott was struck in the buck the head, Men. Gils emotion was not believed sevions, 'The sudden shock produced the "realisation that "a potential assassin had crept into the" crowd of 10,000 persons. who gathered. Erect. the "President-elect. on his Feturn from' a. winter cruise southern waters, created such. con fashion that it war hours before a onmected. detaited story of the affair centd be pieced together. It was only when 'a messenger boy Offered fo toll what he saw and the would-be assassin himself tall ed' that the story was complete Attempt on King of Italy fae A th rote Bria Santi mit 22, slightly wounded.
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