Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1910-08-10
MAYOR CAYN0R
 WILL RECOVER Recently Discharged City Employe Attempts to As
 sassinate Him. GOING ON VACATION When Bullet Brought Him Down. Would Be Assassin Jailed-
 Creates Sensation.
GOING ON VACATION

New York, Aug. 9.-Willam J. Gay nor was shot and dangerously wound ed at 9:43 clock this morning as he stood on the deck of the steamer Kaiser Wilhelm der Crosse at the steamships pier in Hoboken, N. J., about to start on a months vacation to Europe. The shooting was done by a stranger who later gave his names as Jules James Gallagher, liv- ing at 40 Third avenue, New York. He was later identified as a former city employe, who was recently discharg- ed.
 Three shots were fired at the may or. Two of them missed and the third lodged in the fleshy portion of the left side of his neck. Blood gush- ed from the wound and the first has, ty examination led to the belief of serious if not fatal consequences.
 The mayor retained consciousness, and in a later examination by physi- clans, when the mayor was taken to a hospital, gave a hopeful outlook
 A New York surgeon had been tele- phone for and no further effort to locate the bullet will be made until he arrives.
 Mrs. Sophie Johnson, who keeps a rooming house at 40 Third avenue, where Gallagher lives, when told this morning that her boarder had at tempted to kill the mayor, exclaimed, with an expression of disgust:
 "The old fool, what did he do that for?"
 Mrs. Johnson described Gallagher as man of quiet and retiring de- meanor, about fifty years of age. She said he had been living in her house for more than two years. He evil dently had employment as night watchman, for it was his custom to go out every night at 10 o'clock and return at S:30 in the morning. For the last two or three weeks, however, it was apparent that he had been out of work, for Mrs. Johnson said that he had not been keeping his reg ular hours.
 Not Thought to be Serious.
 Doctors report that they do not be- lieve Mayor Gaynor's wound to be serious. Their examination shows that the bullet entered the right side of the neck and did not cut any im- portant blood vessels. The mayor suffered somewhat from blood in his throat, but this was relieved and he felt considerably better.
 Shortly after II o'clock the follow ing statement was given out by steamship physicians who attended Mayor Gaynor just after the shoot ing:
 "The bullet entered the mayors neck back of the ear, burying itself in the region of the mastoid bone. As far as our observations go, and in oul opinion, the injury is not serious.'
 At 11:30 Mayor Gaynor's condition was not favorable. The doctors were having some trouble controllins the hemorrhages. Blood from the wound finds it way into the throat and chokes the sufferer from time te time. The bullet has been located about an inch below the right ear Doctors Stewart and Brewer of New York have arrived at the Hoboken hospital. They say they cannot tel what the outcome will be, but hope for the mayors recovery.
 When Gallagher, the mayors as. sailant, was taken before Recorder McGovern he displayed little emotion
 He deprived me of my bread and butter" said the discharged employe Recorder McGovern held the prisoner without bail to await the result of the mayors condition. Gallagher was ap. pointed watchman in the New Torl city dock department April 15, 1907 He was discharged July 19, 1910, af