The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-08-11
NO CAUSE FOR
ALARM AS YET
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/ Wilhelm der Crosse yesterday started
| a perfunetoFy police Investigation, but
/ generally the communication IS attriD-
uted 10 q crank.
Although IL predicted for big Bill
1 a fate similar 10 the mayors, the for
mer football player seemed To regard
his chances Of life and death as good
as ever.
Two young girls who declared that
| they overheard an intoxicated police
man remark on Monday night that the
] mayor would be shot either on his de-
] parture for or on his return from Eu-
rope. furnished the foundation for an
Other police inquiry, but nothing tangi-
| bic had developed tonight. The mayor
has been drastic in his police better
! ment crusade. and he has many enc
mics on the force.
statement of Assassin.
Gallagher's statement this evening
was his first frank talk concerning me
crime.
While I win not say that am
( mayor gets well. But 1 wanted TO
/ teach high officials TO regard the
! rights OF subOrdinates. l consider that
! l had 70 shoot the mayor as a lesson
/ 20 the country. I did what L did for
] personal principles, and was not
I prompted by any anarchistic belief.
/ Il am sorry that Commissioner Ed
wards was wounded, for ! was only
/ aiming at the mayor. But even the
/ thought OF killing had not been long in
my mind. In fact, reached no de-
! cision until l got up yesterday morn
| ing. The paper said that Gaynor was
| going to sail for a vacation. That
made me angry-tO think that he
] should have a vacation in Europe while
/ did not even have a chance TO work,
/ much less get a vacation. So 1 hur-
/ ried over 10 the Twenty street
/ Terry ana inquired my way 10 the Kali
| ser Wilhelm der Crosse.
/ My wrongs had proved more than l
I thought L could bear. over and over l
sized up my hard station in life, and
/ cOntrasted IL with that OF some other
/ men-Of Mayor GaynOr, who had
wronged me. in particular. AT length
/ I determined TO seek the revenge that
/ / concluded should be justly mine. l
1 was not drunk, as has been tntimated.
Had l heard OF President McKin-
Z ley's assassination? or course, and l
/ believe that assassination is sometimes
right.
4 had carried a gun for nine years.
1 feared the enemies 1 had made by
writing letters when l was trying to
/ reform the dock department"
Quick Justice Promised.
/ There is marked determination
among the New Jersey authorities TO
make Gallagher an example OF quick
I Jersey justice but il was definitely
determined tonight not to lay his case
/ before the grand jury pending the out
come of the mayors Injuries. II the
mayor RECEIVERS, Gallagher viii be
/ quickly tried, charged with assault
/ with intent 10 kill, for which he may
! receive a maximum sentence of 20
| years. II his victim should die, the
charge VIII be murder in the first de-
gree, the penalty for which is death.
For man who SO narrowly escaped
| instant death by an assassin's bullet,
I Mayor GaynOr spent a cheerful day.
With the ever present possibility OF
/ blood poisoning, the anxiety of those
near his bedside remains tense, but
every bulletin OF the day concerning
/ his condition was optimistic.
! Mayor GaynOr cOnVersed cheeTfully
/ with those who saw him, and pleaded
/ with his wife and his physicians 10
| allow nina slice OF TWO or bacon, for
/ which ne has great fOndness.
! His brother. Thomas l. Gaynor, who
/ rushed here from Ohio on receipt OF
| the news OF the shooting, was allowed
/ 10 spend only twenty minutes in the
/ sick room. The mayors only other
visitors during the day, aside from his
physicians, were Mrs. GaynOr. who was
with him almost constantly; John Pur-
/ roy Mitchell, president of the board of
aldermen and now acting mayor; Com
missioner Edwards. Robert AdamsOn,
/ the mayors secretary, and Mrs. Harry
nor.
Messages Of Sympathy.
Messages OF sympathy continued TO
come in. Among them was one from
former Vice President Fairbanks. It
was dated al indianapolis, and read:
our people are Mortified a the das-
tardly attack on your life, and pray for
your speedy recovery"
Governor Weeks OF Connecticut sent
his message from MiddletOWn:
Have just learned Of assault on
you. Please accept prayers for speedy
| recovery"
ceived from Mayor Busse OF Chicago,
Mayor Dahlman OF Omaha, Mexican
Ambassador De Ia Barra and others.
An unusual tribute 10 the wounded
executive is offered by a number OF
Hebrew synagogues, in which the
prayer service masha VarOch will be
/ held. This service is used only in the
case OF the impending death of ruler
| who has served his people wen and
| faithfully.
Possibility of Plot.
/ The detectives OF the central office
/ are investigating the story OF a man
/ named Pearlman, who claims to have
/ In his possession affidaVits that two
/ girls, one his sister, had overheard an
/ intoxicated policeman say on Monday
| night that GaynOr would "be killed
either Tuesday as he departed for Eu-
| rope or on his return"
Pearlman endeaVOred TO sell the affi-
/ daYits, but before the sale was effected
/ he was turned over 70 a detective, who
/ hurried hi maWay.
/ Inspector Russell said Pearlman Wis
/ tied him in company with the detective
/ today and told him this story:
! ''On Monday night my sister met
/ policeman who was intoxicated and said
/ to him: You have been drinking too
Z much. Don't you know that you Will
/ get into trouble If your superiOTs find
l this OutT"
/ THE policeman then replied to her:
| Oh 1 don't care anything about that.
/ Gaynor is going 10 get his soon,
I whether IL is on the steamer he sails on
/ or when he comes back again My sis
I ter took a note Of this policemans num-
| Der and told me the story when l got
/ home"
/ The inspector said he had the num-
/ Der OF the policeman as furnished by
/ Pearlman
Policeman Joseph r. Hook of the
Madison street station, whose number,
I 1446. is the number given Dy the girl.
was suspended from duty tonight pend
/ ing investigation. Hook has been on
/ the force three years.
/