Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-08-10
FORMER CITY EMPLOYE
SHOOTS MAYOR GAYNOR,
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his own neighborhood in Brooklyn. who
was going with him, and asked me
laughingly if l minded posing for an
other group photograph for the benefit Of
newspaper man who had arrived late,
when / heard Gallagher yell out some
thing and saw the flash of his gun and
then the shooting and the struggling be-
gan"
Commissioner Edwards said:
Il was standing with Corporation
Counsel Watson, Dr. Lederle, the health
commissioner, Commissioner Thompson
of the water department and Mr.. Ad-
ansOn. the mayors secretary. on the
forward deck, when the assassin ap-
pr oached.
we were wishing the mayor bon
voyage. AS we, chatted 1 heard a shot
directly back of U.s. 1t was Immediate
ly followed by another. We turned
about and saw this man with re-
volver smoking in his right hand and
not three beet away. He had the re-
volver almost against the mayors
back. Mr.. Watson grabbed the fell
lows pistol hand and held it upward
The man began to struggle desperately
and slammed him against the railing.
didn't care much what I did with him.
and for moment l thought he was
going overheard. He continued to
fight furiously. but well directed blow
or two took the fight out Of him.
1T took three Of four minutes to
rush him down the gang plank and in
to the automobile. The crowds were
rlurInuring and crushing, and it was a
hard task. AS we got him into the
machine the fellow looked about him
and said, Sc all Of us heard him dis
:nctly: .....
"'He robbed me of my bread and
butter and that's all there is to it.. "
Mr. Adamson said that his picture of
the scene was too blurred to admit
of detailed description, but neverthe-
less he described with vivid fragmen-
tary sentences what occurred.
MAYOR Gaynor had turned to give
me a last word of instruction." he
said. 1--WE were standing on the port
side, near the companion way and
just under the bridge. 1 saw him start
under the impact of the bullet. I leap
ed to get him in my arms. and as
uIu So IuIIlcO So Liidt SoAiiS AeSS ~
face with the assassin.
In the excitement of the moment 1t
seemed to me that the second shot was
aimed at me. But l do not know. All
was confusion and l recall only a
frenzied scene of men fighting and
arms waving and oaths. and through
it all the muzzle of that revolver point
| ing toward us. In any event, the
crowd nearby had so leaped upon the
man that his aim was impaired.
Il do not remember any of the rest.
except that when I looked up again
Mayor Gaynor was half fainting in
my arms, and Gallagher was on the
deck beneath a crowd of shrieking,
screaming men. Some one was drag
cling at Commissioner Edwards arm.
Don't kill him Bill" was the cry !
heard.
Through the seconds of that scene
| that seemed to pass like hours, l could
| hear that voice calling. They tell me
that Edwards big hand had closed about
Gallagher's neck in the grip of wise.
| He would have choked him to death right
there if others present had not restrained
him. Someone called out: Let's lynch
him.
by that time they had dragged Ed
wards off and he had regained some of
! his calm. Get me a pair of handcuffs.
| he ordered. There We're no cuffs at hand,
but Henry Goerng. one of the local detec-
tives, passed Edwards his chains. They
were nipped around Gallaghers wrists
and he was led away"
Gallagher is a short, thickset man,
| clo tn mounds
smoked cigar cheerfully after his arrest
and at no time expressed sorrow because
of his deed On the other hand he re-
| peated stolidly that the mayor had rob-
| bed him of a livelihood and that he had
| meant to kill him. He is Sc years old. 1t
was clergyman, he said in a signed
| statement issued in Hoboken after his
arrest, who pointed the mayor out to him
| before he fired the shot.
The man appeared perfectly rational
and sane to me- said Commissioner Ed
wards tonight.
Commissioner Thompson described
| the scene tonight in part as follows:
We (other members of the mayor s
| cabinet). were all there when the may
| or arrived" he said. And as he ap-
preached he laughed and said. this
locks like a cabinet meeting
Net more than minute after that
the shooting took place. The mayor
had just been talking with the presi-
dent of Chile and his wife, and had
turned again to talk to us. when the
revolver was suddenly placed within
two inches of the mayors neck and
the trigger pulled. I was standing just
to the right of the mayor at the time
and grabbed for the mans arm; and a
second shot was fired that passed so
close to my face that l could feel its
passage.
| Then 1 saw Commissioner Edwards
jump on the man and bear him to the
deck, while Ralph Boomer. on aid
Yale tackle man. who had been seeing
some friends off on the steamer. joined
il the nelee. I was also in the mixup
endeavoring to hold the mans arm
when the third shot was fired. Com
missioner Edwards had the man under
control before he could do any more
damage. The mayor did not fall, for
Mr.. Adamsnr and Mr.. Watson caught
and held him up
| The New York physicians attending the
mayor are Dr. George f. Brewer DR..
| George d. Stewart and DR.. Charles n
Dowd In addition there was summoned
DIR. James Parish of Brooklyn the Gay
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