The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1910-08-11
Today Is Regarded as the
Critical Period in the
Case
NAY HAVE BEEN POLICE
PLOT TO ASSAss|NATE MAYOR
Drunken Officer Predicted the Assault
Before It Was Made-Gallaghe
Hopes His Victim Will Recover
Makes Statement.

this morning from the bedside of
Mayor Gaynor were of an encouraging
nature and the indications were that
the distinguished patient in st. Mary's
hospital was we'll fortified for what
might prove to be the critical day.
The mayors wound was dressed at s
o'clock this morning, after which the
following bulletin was given out:
"The wound has been dressed and
looks we'll. He converses cheerfully
and the situation is encouraging"
Mayor Gaynor's throat was sprayed
this afternoon with an antiseptlc
solution. The mayor shows more
signs of irritability than he has hith-
erto displayed since the shooting. He
expresses the desire that his wife be
almost constantly with him and Mrs.
| GAY Ior has been allowed to remain
at her husbands side nearly all the
time.
Because of the alarming rumors re-
garding the mayors condition which
we're in circulation this afternoon DIR.
( Arlitz. who was in charge of the
patient at the time, issued the fol-
! lowing bulletin shortly after O'Clock:
pulse 76, temperature 100 1-5, same
as when taken at $3.50 o'clock this
morning. The respiration also re-
manned the same"
Gallagher Hopes.
Interest centers on the mayors con-
dition, but Gallagher. protesting
trace of penitence, commanded fur
ther notriety from his cell in Jersey
City last evening. An anonymous let
ter, threatening the life Of Commits
! sioner William H. Edwards. whose
blows felled Gallagher yesterday,
started perfunctory police investi-
! cation. The communication is at
/ tributed to crank. Although not
predicted for big Bill a fate similar
TO the mayors, he did not regard the
matter seriously.
Two young girls who declared they
overheard an intoxicated policeman
remark Monday night that the mayor
would be shot either on his departure
for or on his return from Europe,
furnished the foundation for another
police investigation. but nothing
tangible had developed. The police
mans number is in the possession OF
Inspector Russell, and while there is
/ little if anything to indicate the eA-
istence of an organized plot to taKe
the mayors life, the policeman VIII
be tried for intoxication while on duty
and with making indecent and IN
cendiary remarks.
| Gallaghers statement last evening
was his first talk concerning the
crime.
"While will not say that am sor-
ry." he said. II now hope the mayor
/ gets we'll, But / wanted to teach high
officials to regard the rights OF sub
ordinates. | consider l had to shoot
,be MAYOR as a lesson to the country.
/ did what l did for personal prln-
cinles and was not prompted by any
anarchistic belief.
"I am sorry that Commissioner Ed
wards was wounded, for l was aiming
only at the mayor. But even the
Thought of killing him had not been
long in my mind. reached no de-
cision until l got up yesterday morn
ING The paper said that Gaynor was
going to sail for vacation. That
made me angry-to think that ne
/ should have a vacation in Europe
while | did not even have chance 10
work, much less get vacation. SO
hurried over the Twenty-third
street ferry and inquired my way TO
the Kaiser Wilhelm.
"My wrongs had proved more than
thought / could bear. Over ana
over | sized up my hard station IN
life and contrasted it with that OF
some other men-of Mayor Gaynors
who had wronged me. in particular.
NO, was not drunk. yesterday
morning as has been intima,ed. On
the contrary. I had not taken drop
of liquor since last Saturday.
There is determination to make
Gallagher an example of quick Jer-
sew iustice," but it was decided not
to Law his case before the grand jury
nending the outcome of the mayors
! injuries. If the mayor recovers.
Gallagher will be tried charged with
assault with intent to kill and may
receive a maximum sentence of twen-
! ty years. If his victims should die,
| the charge will be murder in the first
degree the penalty for which 1s
death.