Word: cermak
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...Hospital.) Physicians found that a bullet had grazed Mayor Cermak's liver and lodged at the back of his abdomen in his spine. His condition was critical. Mrs. Gill was on the brink of death as the result of a stomach wound. The other three were suffering only from flesh wounds...
Canceling his special train home, President-elect Roosevelt lingered at the hospital. He went in softly to see Mayor Cermak after the nurses got him comfortable in bed. His face taut with pain, the Mayor looked up at the President-elect and murmured: "I'm mighty glad it was me instead of you. I wish you'd be careful. The country needs...
Next morning Mr. Roosevelt paid a second visit to the hospital before starting for New York. Mayor Cermak and Mrs. Gill were holding their own. Perhaps they would not die after all. The President-elect urged the Mayor to "hurry up and get well in time to attend the inaugural." Later aboard his private car Mr. Roosevelt called newshawks about him, calmly gave them his version of what happened...
...looked around and saw Mayor Cermak doubled up and Mrs. Gill collapsing...
...called to the chauffeur to stop. "I saw Mayor Cermak being carried. . . . He was alive, but I didn't think he was going to last. I put my left arm around him and my hand on his pulse, but I couldn't find any pulse...