The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-08-09
Fired Upon Three Times by Discharged Dock Employe, While Standing Under Bridge of Kaiser Wilhelm Der Gross, This Morning, Preparatory to En- barking on Months Vacation
 Abroad

After tackling Gallagher and hurlins him to the deck, Edwards climbed astride the prostrate man and began pounding him in the face with savage fury. A heavy ring the commissioner wore cut a long deep gash in the man $ nose and he was literally covered with blood when Edwards ceased pummell- ing him.
 Charles Boucher. a reporter for the Evening World, Harry GirdlnE and Otto SchmoIinski, deck stewards on the vessel. rushed to Edwards side and to- gether the four men hustled Gala gher. bleeding and subdued. to Edwards waiting automobile into which they showed him and hurried to the police station. On the drive up Boucher ask ed Gallagher why he fired.
 'Why that fellow took my job, he took my bread and butter and I shot for it. Your can't make that too strong" he kept repeating. They took my salary from me. was night watchman at the municipal office for g a night and they took that away from me. Of course I shot him."
 Gala ~her continually harped on the fact that Mayor Gaynor had taken his job away from him.
 "But, MT. Gaynor had nothing to do with your discharge" said Boucher. "Oh, know that; Commissioner Tpm-
 
 it and got him." he said.
 When Gallagher was registered at police headquarters the turnkeys made a thorough search of his person. He begged to be allowed to retain tin tobacco box full of tobacco. declaring his pipe and tobacco were really his best friends. The officers feared to let him have the tin box. lest he make a weapon of it to kill himself "Oh, ain't going to do the Dutch act" he teered at them He was allowed to keep the tobacco but the box was taken from him.
 The attempted assassination and capture of the assailant was as dra- matc as if written by a playwright.
 President Montt of Chile who wit messed the affair. said:
 "I saw the whole thing. The man had been hanging around for about five minutes. I noticed that he car rieds one hand under his coat tail in the neighborhood of his right hand hip pocket but I was not suspicious of this and paid little more attention to the man.
 ''He did not seem to show any signs of excitement The Mayor had just introduced me to a friend of his from his own neighborhood in Brooklyn who was going on the ship with him. Then he Aughingly asked me whether ob- 1ected to posing for another group photograph for the benefit of the news pepermen who had arrived late when heard the tall man yell out some- thing and saw the flash of his gum
 As Mayor GaynoR was being borne away rom the ship he said simply, tell the people goodbye for me-"
 At the Hoboken police headquarters the police elicited the following state ment from Gallagher:
 T came over to Hoboken about 9:20 ha cfn pier and went on board the Kaiser Wilhelm Der Crosse. I met a clergy man on board the steamer and asked him to point out Mayor Gaynor to me. He did so and shortly afterward fired a shot at the Mayor. do not know if fired more than one shot not.
 Knowing that Mayor Gaynor was going to Europe this morning to en- joy himself after depriving me of my bread and butter-not porterhouse steak-I was irritated to the point of committing the act. The revolver that you show me- as the desk ser lice had taken from Gallagher" is the revolver that I done the shooting with I don't know how many shots was in the revolver when I used it. I have had the revolver a long time in my possession. I carried it when l was III CuG 0IHplOy OI the GUY.
 Gallagher showed some reluctance about talking and the impression first created, that he was a crank. was lat CT disposed of. He was rational and did not shoIw the least excitement, talking calmly and naturally. He was very bitter against the Mayor and indu1ged some rough sarcasm.
 After he had made his statement he was taken to the police photograph gallery and his picture was taken. Later his Bertillon measurements were entered. He will be sent to the Hud- son County jail later in the day.
 Gallagher is widower withI no children and lived at 40 Third avenue, New York city. He was discharged on January 1st from the Department of Docks and Ferries by Commission CT Tompkins, on charges of intoxica- tion. At that time he had been in the employ of the city four years and four days.
 Former President Roosevelt imme- diately after he had heard of the shooting, rushed the following tele- gram to Robert Adamson, the Mayors private secretary:
 "I am shocked and mortified beyond measure. Please send me information concerning Mayor Gaynor'S condition g
 It was Gaynor who delivered the address of welcome to Roosevelt up- on the Iatter's return from Africa and Europe.
 The following physicians are either in attendance upon Mayor Gaynor or in consultation: Drs. Arlitz, Stewart, Brewer Parish Melville. Hartley, Health Commissioner Lederle. Stack, Granello. Dowd and the staff physi- clans of the hospital.
 Shortly before noon, Gallagher was placed in a closed automobile and taken to the hospital for Identification bxv nh fused to allow the man to be taken into the sick room declaring his pres ence might excite the wounded man unduly. The officers declared the Identification was unnecessary as there had been a number of eye-witnesseS, C,1I ocrha falxan f< is