johnschrank

Given the circumstances, it's amazing how jolly everyone looks in the photo.

John Schrank said that the assassinated William McKinley appeared to him in his dream, sitting up in his coffin, and pointed to Theodore Roosevelt as the man who had murdered him, and directed Schrank to avenge his death.

query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9C00E2D6133CE633A...

www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/21261

Looks like the cops here weren't exactly cross with Schrank the Crank.

John Schrank lived here before his attempted assassination of Theodore Roosevelt

This is on Manhattan's Canal Street, near the corner of Elizabeth Street--currently part of New York's Chinatown. Many of the buildings on the right side of the photo remain intact.

My grandfather Gustav Jost and his father Leopold Jost and mother Ephrosine ran this bar and lunchroom, and probably the whole hotel in 1900. The 1900 census shows them living at this address with six boarders and two servants.

here is the Google Street View:

John Schrank said that the assassinated William McKinley appeared to him in his dream, sitting up in his coffin, and pointed to Theodore Roosevelt as the man who had murdered him, and directed Schrank to avenge his death. query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9C00E2D6133CE633A... www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/21261