New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1910-08-17
MAYOR CAYNOR
BADLY WOUNDED
Shot Down by a Discharged
City EnpIoye.
WOULD Be ASSASSIN CAUGHT
OverpoWered on Board Steamer Where
Shooting Occurred and Lodged
in Jail at Hohoken.
WOULD Be ASSASSIN CAUGHT

New York, Aug 10.-William J.
Gaynor, mayor Of New York city, was
shot in the head and seriously wound
ed as he stood on the promenade deck
of the steamship Kaiser Wilhelm der
Crosse by James J. Gallagher, a dis
charged and disgruntled employee. Gal
lagher was almost instantly oyerpow-
cred and arrested
The shot was fired fifteen minutes
before the Kaiser Wilhelm der Crosse
was due to leave her pier at Hoboken,
n. J., and the mayor was receiving
Godspeed from group Of friends pre-
paratory to vacation trip to Europe.
The bullet struck him behind the right
ear and ranged downward, inficting
dangerous though not necessarily IA
tai wound, and unless blood poison de-
yelops surgeons are hopeful of the
mayors recovery, although at his age,
ffty-nine years, such a wound is es-
sentially grave.
The mayor is at St. Mary'e hospital,
Hoboken, surrounded by specialists,
near, awaiting the outcome with anx-
iety. All early reports from the hos
pital were hopeful, and six X-ray neg
atives of the wound were taken to
facilitate an operation for the. re-
moval of the bullet
Gallagher, the would be assassin is
locked in cell at Jersey City without
bail He expresses no remOrse.
The big liner was gay with flags
and ringing with shouted goodbys
when the tragedy occurred Most Of
those who had been aboard the ship to
say farewell to friends or relatives
/ had gone ashore, but little group re-
= manned to talk with the mayor They
were standing on the port side of the
vessel, near the promenade deck for
ward and were in the act of posing
for a group photograph when Gala
CHER, unnOticed, pushed his way al
most to the mayors side and fired
point blank at his head. He used a
38-caliber revolver, and an eXamina-
ton later disclosed the first cartridge
had missed fire This probably saved
~ the mayors life, for Gallagher, when
he first pulled the trigger, was less
than two feet away Backing away
slightly in his excitement, he pulled
the trigger a second time and sent a
bullet into the mayors neck below the
ear.
Edwards Slightly Wounded.
William = Edwards, commissioner
of street cleaning, and former Prince
ton football star, lunged forward with
his 300 pounds just as Robert Adam
son, the mayors secretary struck Gal
1agher's arm. AS he did so a second
shot pierced Edwards sleeve, inhict
ing a slight flesh wound on the com
missioners right arm, which remained
undiscovered for hours because of the
J. excitement. Unmindful of his woune
Edwards hit the man a crashing blow
in the face, and they crashed to thu
deck together, Gallagher struggling
with the strength Of desperation AM
pulling vicfously at the trigger in al
attempt to fire another shot.
In the struggle with the man Wht
attempted to take his life, Mayor Gay
nor though badly wounded and bleed
ing from mouth and nose, did not once
lose consciousness. The impact Of thu
bullet did not even throw him from hi
feet, but he raised his hands to hi
ears and with his face contOrted will
~ pain, staggered in a daze and leane.
Imply across the ships rail until Al
amson came to his assistance.
Then some one drew steame
IL, III or ir,+~ l.. |,
mayor sank with relief. A few mir
utes later ne was removed to a state
room where the ships surgeons ten
porarily bandaged the wound, prepal
atory to his removal to ST. Mary's no!
pital He was taken there in a spe
cial automobile.