Says His Food Would Save M’Kinley

A COOK TELLS POLICE HE IS “REX” AND THE SMARTEST
MAN IN THE WORLD.

     A man who described himself as “Louis Schroeder, Rex,” walked into the Mercer-st. station on Saturday night and announced that he was the smartest man in the world. He said that he knew everything, and that he was king of all the earth.
     “I am Louis Schroeder, Rex,” he continued. “Rex, regis, regi, regem, rex, rege. I have served others up to this day, but from this time forth and forever I shall rule, for I am Rex—I know everything. I knew that President McKinley was going to be shot and sent a man, a detective, there to prevent it, but he arrived too late. I was at one time a cook and I know how to prepare a food that will restore the President to health and strength, and I am the only man who can cure him. I will prepare some of this food at once and forward it to Buffalo and he will rise from his bed and walk.”
     When Schroeder was arraigned in the Jefferson Market court yesterday Magistrate Flammer said that he would appoint the wise man king of Bellevue, and committed him to the insane pavilion for five days for examination as to his sanity.
     An interesting feature of the case was that the sergeant entered the prisoner as Louis S. Rex, instead of Louis Schroeder, Rex.