Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-08-09

| esi excitement Mayor Gaynor was
seen 20 fall and the gushing wound told
that he had been hit At the same
moment ships guard sprang forward
and dealt the assassin blow on the
head with a billy, telling him TO tic
deck. where officers quickly seized him,
He was turned over to the Hobokeu
police headuarters. There be gave the
name or Gallagher and IN response tn
INQUIRIES as TO why he had committed
the deed he replied sulleniy:
ne Kept me from earning my bread
and butter"
Meantime Gaynor had been carried 10
state room He remained conscious
but breathed heavily. He WAS calm hut
appa rently apprehensive that the
wound was grave.
AMBULANCE SUMMONED.
An ambulance was summoned to the
pier and the wounded mayor was placed
on a stretcher and carried to it, The
vehicle was driven 10 ST. Mary's hospi-
tai lioboken, where the mayor was i'm
mediately taken 10 the operating room
lie was still conscious and occasionally
spoke to those about him. To the city
officials who accompanied him 10 the
hospital he indicated the gravity with
which he viewed the shot by these
words:
say goodbye TO the people"
The hospital physicians made a care
lhA examination OF tDe wound. lhelr
conclusion agreed with that OF the
ships surgeon that the injury was not
necessarily fatal
II was found that tho bullet had en-
tered the mayors neck back OF the ear,
burying itself in the region OF the mas
told bone.
The bullet was not located and no
effort was made 10 probe. II was de-
cided to await the arrival Of a surgeon
from New York. Meantime the mayor
remained calm. His chief difficulty
came from the gathering of blood In his
throat. After tho ministration Of ply
sicians, Mr. Gaynor expressed himself
as feeling better The attempt TO as
sassinate the mayor caused intense ex-
element through New York. The prom
inence OF the city executive In recent
months In city, and, In a growing ex-
tent, in state and national affairs. at
tracted widespread attention
DISPATCHES OF COINCIDENCE
Everywhere the news Of the attempt
on his life was received with evidence
az profound regret. In all public places
the AFFAIR was the absorbing topic. one
OF the first dispatches OF coincidence
was from ex- President Roosevelt.
Mayor Gaynor was carried from the
ship on stretchor and placed In an
undcrtakers ambulance which had
been summoned by tho police; ana taken
TO ST. Marys hospital In Willow avenue,
iitnDka'ilt W nfN ne ltfNntu inf nUGnia
tai he was still conscious He was Ia
ken Immediately 60 the operating room
Tho doctors examination showed that
the bullet entered the right side u the
neck and did not cut any of the I'm
portant blood vessels
street COMMISSIONS william Edwards
was slightly wounded by one OF the
bullets intended for Mayor Gaynor.
Edwards. who was standing by tho
mayor, seized Gallaghers arm one
Of the bullets passed through the street
commissioners sleeve and grazcd his
arm. Tho wound. however. was so
slight that Edwards only discovered IL
after the excitement had subsidized
Mayor Gaynor's administration. which
began on Jan |. last had been so
drastic in It's reforms and he had con-
domned so many persons and parties in
such strong terms that he became the
subject OF many threats.
In municipal official circles he made
many bitter enemies and a number OF
powerful political organizations were
uncompromising against him.
Several months ago an armed visitor
at the city hall was found trying 10
approach Mayor Gaynor. lie was ar
rested.
GAYNoR's VACATION.
Mayor Gaynor was sailing on the
first vacation he has had since taking
office on Jan. I. He has been at work
from - to i6 hours a day ahd impera.
lively felt the need Of a rest In order
TO be out OF reach OF the affairs Of his
Office II was his intention 20 avoid an
the European tics and take isunt
through the North sea so the coast of
Norway. He expected TO be absent
about one month. Mayor Gaynor wac
rather seCretivc about his preparations
for his journey. which Was tragicaily
interrupted TO friends who saw him
az his Once yesterday afternoon he said
the principal object was the sea "trip
and he had no intention OF seeing the
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