The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1910-08-11
press i'll feeling toward the man who
would have killed him.

press i'll feeling toward the man who
would have killed him.
Gallagher, judging by appearance
and actions, is not lunatic. His mind
Is apparently as sound as any mans
of so odd years, but he has nourish-
ed in his heart a hatred for Mayor
Gaynor ever since he was discharged
as a night watchman in the depart
ment OF docks and ferries in July, last
for incompetency.
"You took the bread and butter
out of my mouth" he shouted as he
approached the Mayor, then he level
ed the revolver and fired. The strug
gle about the deck ensued almost in
stantly.
There was no panic on board during
the disorder. Many tried TO belabor
the PROSTATE Gallagher and the ex-
citement, of course, was intense, but
the ships officers shielded the Mayor
in his stateroom from the crowd OF
over-solicitous passengers.
President Pedro Montt of Chill, en-
route to Europe after his visit to this
country, was a spectator of the trag-
edy an dts ensuing scenes. He had
been talking with the Mayor just be-
fore the shooting occurred.
II saw the whole thing said Presi-
dent Montt. "The man was hanging
around for several minutes. l noticed
that he carried one hand under his
coat tail as if in the neighborhood of
right hand hip pocket, but l was not
suspicious of this and paid no particu-
lar attention to the fellow.
"He did not seem to me 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 with him,
and asked me laughingly if l minded
posing for another group photograph
for the benefit of a newspaper man
who had arrived late, when 1 heard
Gallagher yell out something and saw
the flash of his gun and then the
hooting and the strugglind began"
The following bulletin on Mayor
Gaynor's condition was issued at
midnight; Mayor Gaynor is doing as
we'll as could be expected. He slept
some. He is perfectly conscious.
There is no evidence of infection.
(Signed)
Ferdinand c. Wolf, House Physi-
clan, st. Mary's Hospital"
Gallagher is a short. thick set man.
He smoked a cigar cheerfully after
his arrest and at no time expressed
sorrow because of his deed. He re-
pealed stolidly that the May
or had robbed him of a Live
lihood and that he meant
to kill him. He is Sc years old. it
was a clergyman, he said in a signed
statement issued in Hoboken after
his arrest, who pointed the Mayor out
to him before he fired the shot
"The man appeared perfectly ra-
tional and sane to me-" said Commits
sioner Edwards tonight. "He would
not give his name as We were taking
him to the police station; said that
| it was none of my business. 1t was
undoubtedly the first shot which hit
the Mayor and undoubtedly the sec
and which blanced off my arm"
After his arraignment before Re-
corder McGovern this afternoon, Gal
laher was sent to the Hudson county
jail at Jersey City, where he sat ir
his cell tonight, contentedly smoking
/ a pipe and seemingly pleased witt
the attention he had attracted. There
was an intimation that the New Tori
authorities would endeavor to hav'
him tried in New York, but it is no
taken seriously 1t seems the set
tied rule of law that States iuris
diction extends only to the middle y
the channel of a navigable stream
forming a boundary.