St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-08-13
TRIED TO KILL
MAYOR CAYNOR
Attempted Assassination
BY a Crank.
was Discharged from Job
Of Watchman.
Mayor Seriously But Not
Fatally Hurt.
The Man Subdued After q
Fierce Struggle.
Says Mayor Took Away His
Bread and Butter.
TRAGEDY ON A STEAMER.

r., Aoih' mug. 5.-N lilldm j
Gaynor, mayor of New York city
starting for Europe on the first va.
cation since he assumed office, was
shot In the head and seriously
wounded to-day, surrounded by
friends on the promenade deck of a
transatlantic liner.
Hopeful bulletins, issued by at
tending physicians as late as mid
nlPht, indicate that they expect his
+ recovery unless blood poison devel-
ops.
The shot was fired by James J.
. Gallagher, a discharged and dis
gruntled employe, who shouted
dramatically:
You have robbed me of my bread
. and butter"
He then pressed the trigger, send
ing a 38-caliber bullet plowing it's
way into the mayors neck below the
right ear. Almost instantly the as
sailant was thrown to the deck by
William H. Edwards, a former
Princeton football star, but commits
sioner of street cleanin of New
York city. In the struggle a stray
bullet grazed Edwards ri hit arm.
battered Gallagher numerically and
held him writhing on the deck until
handcuffed.
Taken to his stateroom, the mayor
was then moved to St. Mary's Hospi-
tai, Hoboken, where radiograph
negatives of the wound were taken
this evening.
A bulletin subsequently issued by
physicians said that the position Of
the bullet indicated. that an opera
tion was unnecessary.
The mayor remained conscious
during the process of photographing,
swallowed with stocism iced stim-
ulants sparingly administered and
appeared cheerful throughout the
afternoon and night.
While the official bulletin stated
that the bullet had been split during
its passage, it did not specify the
location OF. -khe~twe segments. 1t
was learned;+ however, that one bit
of lead remained imbedded in the
flesh almost at the wounds opening,
while the other part is buried in
the lower part of the mouth. DR..
Ferdinand d. Wolfe, the house ply
sician of the hospital, Said late to-
night that it was probable no opera
ton would be performed tomorrow.
The mayors temperature is normal,
his pulse strong and his mental at
tude favorable for recovery.
In fact, the surgeons were so opti-
mistic that members of the Gaynor
family left the hospital tonight,
leaving Mrs. Gaynor alone in her
vigil beside her husband.
The mayor called for ice water
late tonight and was allowed to
drink freely. Previously he had |
taken several swallows of brandy |
poured over ice. He slept for a time |
this afternoon and aeain tonight, |
and cheerfully suggested that he be
allowed to walk to the operating |
room where the X-ray photographs |
were taken. This his physician for |
babe.
Gallagher fired his shot with in
tent to kill at 9:45 O'Clock this |
morning, as the steamship Kaiser |
wilhelm der Crosse, gay with flags |
and ringing with shouted good-bys, |
was about to leave her pier at Ho-
boken.
New York, Aug. 9.-William J.
Caynor, mayor of New York City, |
WAS shot in the head and seriously |
wounded today as he stood on the
deck of the steamship |
kaiser Wilhelm der Crosse, by Jas.
q Gallagher, discharged and dis
oruntled employee. Gallagher was
Almost instantly overpowered and
arrested.
The shot was fired at 9:45 o'clock
th,a morning, fifteen minutes before
he Kaiser Wilhelm der Crosse was
ana to leave her pier at Hoboken,
Il. j., and the mayor was receiving
rodsneed from a group of friends,
preparatory to a vacation trip to
europe. The bullet struck him be-
hind the right ear and ranged down.
Uard. intiicting a dan 'erous, though
nj necessarily fatal wound. Unless
Mood poisoning develops surgeons
d hopeful of the mayors recovery
sIthough at his age, 50 years, such
wnund is essentially grave.
54To-night the mayor is at St. Mary's
Hoboken, surrounded by
!. ..aacialists, with members of his
'amily gathered near, awaiting the
'.,tcome with anxiety. All early
.anorts from the hospital were hope
II IN tone, and this evening six
rlrav negatives of the wound were
] IAN to facilitate an operation for
sa removal of the bullet.
THE WOULD BE ASSASSIN.
gallagher, the would-be assassin,
!, lacked in cell at Jersey City,