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Show 228 courtroom like a monkey, hurled insults at everyone including his own attorneys, held weekly press conferences and announced that upon the conclusion of the trial he intended to run for President.9 Leon Czolgosz became obsessed with the notion that McKinley was the enemy of the working people. Dr° Walter Channing, professor of mental diseases at Tufts Medical School and later chairman of the board of trustees of Boston State H05pital, examined Czolgosz and concluded that he may have been suffering from "dementia praecox of the hebephrenic form."lo Likewise, Roosevelt, John Schrank, who wounded Theodore was judged insane by a panel of psychiatrists and was confined in mental institutions until he died thirty-one years later. Schrank claimed to have heard voiced urging him to kill Theodore Roosevelt for seeking a third term in office, and he said he would shoot any president desiring a third term. When he heard that Franklin Roosevelt was seeking a third term, it apparently was too much for him and he died. Schrank also was impelled by a dream in which he saw the dead McKinley sit up in his coffin, point an accusing finger at a man in a monkvs habit and declare, 9Pearl, Op. cit., Chapter 9. 10Donovan, Op. cit., p. 94. |
