New York, Feb. 16, A dramatic story of the attempt-assassination was told to-day by Mr. Franklin D- Roosevelt to press-cuon board the "special "train bearing him from Miami, Florida, tone York The" President-elect said that, just after talking with ar Covmal hho heard what fe thought was the sound of fire-crackers. "On looking that ade, Cermak 1 had collapsed. "Stop Ping his. ear, the " President-elect {ook in air, Cermak and put his Jarm around "him, ile. could not feel his pulse at first and. believed that his heart had." stopped, but later he felt the Mayor's pulse, Which 'Was constantly" improving, Mir, Roosevelt held Afr, Cermak and talked' to him all the way to hospi-
Local authorities learned from|tal, telling him that he would not the Attorney-General, Mr. W. D.|be hurt if he did not move.—Reuter..._
Mitchell, in Washington that Guiseppe Zangara, the would-be Jassassin, cannot be prosecuted by the Federal Gov dent-elect. It was revealed there is a law against slandering the President but no federal statute to. protect him from bodily harm. Prosecutions of this order must be brought under the state laws.
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