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Meanwhile big-eyed mop-haired Joe Zangara sat in his high Miami cell rubbing his aching stomach and repeating: "If I could eat, I no kill anybody." He appeared without remorse, explaining that his animosity ran against Mr. Roosevelt only as President-elect, not as an individual. Police investigation revealed the following case history...
...Zangara arrived in the U. S. in 1923. He worked as a brick mason in Hackensack and Paterson, N. J. He was quiet and solitary, had no police record. But one employer recalled that he harangued fellow-workers against "the rich and powerful'' during lunch hours. In 1929 he was naturalized, later registering as a Republican voter. In 1926 his appendix was removed. Suffering from stomach ulcers he roamed the country restlessly. This chronic complaint evidently warped his reason, excited him to last week...
Pleading guilty to four assault charges, Zangara was sentenced to 80 years in prison by Judge E. C. Collins. "Don't be stingy, give me 100 years!" he shouted...
...newspaperman will tell you that Fred W. Mizer, manager of Miami's radio station WQAM, missed the chance of a lifetime one night last week in Miami's Bay Front Park. When stumpy little Joe Zangara started shooting at President-elect Roosevelt. Mr. Mizer had the story-or at least the means of getting it instantly to the nation-right in his hand. No newshawk, he let the chance go by out of diplomacy or excitement...
Chance also smiled that night on Rex Saffer, Associated Pressman. He was standing directly in front of Zangara who fired over Saffer's left shoulder, scorching his coat. At first Newshawk Saffer thought it was "some fool firing blank cartridges." Not until he saw Mayor Cermak drop did he realize what was happening. Then he wriggled out of the crowd, raced by Mr. Roosevelt who was calling out "I'm all right," and dove to a telephone under the park bandstand to send a flash...