New-York tribune., 1910-09-20
GAYNOR TELLS HIS STORY
Continued from first page.


TO do
] not bit afraid to die if that was
Gods will Of me | said to myself. just as
well a few years from now NO
one who contemplates the immensity OF
Almighty GOO and Of His universe and His
works. and realizes what an atom he is in
it all, can fear to die in this flesh, yea,
even though it were true that he IS to be
dissolved forever into the infinity OF matter
and mind from which he came.
In some way I happened to close my
mouth tight and found 1 breathed perfect
" through my nose. | then believed
could keep from smothering But l kept
choking and my mouth kept opening to
cast out the blood. But much of it went
down into my stomach. That night in the
hospital l had five hard chilIs in success
sion, and got deathly sick and vomited up
this blood all over the bed The poor
Sister who was watching me called the
doctors. but they said it was a good thing.
/ felt much better after that. but grew
very weak. The trouble was to get nour-
ishment. as ] could not swallow.
But 1 shall not speak OF the hospital. but
only Of my recollection Cor Impressions OF
things the ship. They wanted me to
L
would walk TO my stateroom 1 could now
see faces and l wanted to get away from
the crowd. I could not bear to nave them
looking at me in the plight I was in. es-
pecially the crowd OF newspaper men and
especially those with cameras Two Of
them rushed up from the line where they
all stood and put their cameras right in
my face and snapped them l finally put
my hand up and think I said Don't" |
hope those pictures were net published.
The other newspaper men acted decently.
as they always do.
Feared To Be DISCOURAGED.
We we're on the opposite side Of the ship
and 7 was supported through the gangway
down a few steps and then I'D the same
number. and my stateroom vas there As
We were crossing I said 10 Commissioner
thompson. on my right hand, TO send for
two of the best surgeons of the city, and
be sure and tell them not to disCoura ge
me- I had difficulty to make him under
stand me. but he finally did. Finding that
my wound was not Immediately mortal
had determined to make fight for II, and
did not want any one 10 come near me
who would discourage me. Nothing an
noys me more than 10 have persons come
1
my mind upon doing = thing
They lifted me into bed. but had TO prop
me up on account of the choking J told
| the poor captain who bent over me that
was sorry for the trouble and delay I was
causing. The ships doctor and the am
bulance doctor, who soon arrived washed
my face and beard and bandaged my
wound They carried me in a litter and
in he T
was filled with Joy to see my dear Rufe
spring up on the rear seat. I knew then
that 1 was not to be alone How relative
happiness is in this world, He had been
| encouraging me By words all along. and
kept on doing so. but broke down COM
pletely IN the hospital when mamma ar
rived. as 7 afterward learned.
The excitement being over. I began to
grow weak. and was quite weak when
was wheeled into the operating room. I
forgot to tell you that as I stood OF was
supported on tho deck I heard some one
crying cut Kill him." and others saying
NO, do not xiii him" They had seized
the assassin 7 heard no struggle. nor did
hear any shots fred. bur I concluded that
l had been shot in the head by an assas-
sin. 7 did not hear the shot that hit me
There as an interval at the first when I
seem to have been unconscious.
Though the thing had not entered my
head that morning, I was not surprised
hen ] realized that I was shot. ] had
had feeling for some weeks that might
he assaulted on account OF the anonymous
threats I was getting by mail. I had not
received so many nor so regularly since I
was opposing the ring Corrupti3ns and the
Mckane conditions in Brooklyn and
Gravesend when | was young man. I
had ceased walking over the Brooklyn
Bridge.
The matter of the pictures Of the Reno
nrizefight had come up. / had no way as
Mayor 10 stop the theatres from showing
them. BY the city charter their licenses
were revOkable by the judges of the Su-
preme Court, not by the Mayor. and the
| District Attorney and Corpora ton Counsel
decided that there was no law fOrbiddinS
| such pictures. They had been shown for
years without objection But the Hearst
newspapers kept on denouncing me for not
! stopping them. I suppose you know the
way they had beled me ever since be
| came Mayor. Finally. one day they print
| ed in large type that an officer Of the
| Christian EndeavOr Society. named LO-
wande, had called on me at the Mayor 5
! once anu dbhtu me Oh DcildAA u LIldL -
| cety TO stop the pictures, and that l told
/ him he was a fool and was sent by fools.
! ! had never said such thing. as you
! may well know. It was made up ! learned
/ that IOwande was a process server for
| LAWYERS. The officers of the Christian En-
! deavor Society put forth d statement o.
! their own motion that il was untrue tnat
! they had sent LOwande or any one else 10
me and that he did not represent them.
| But Il made no difference These newSpa-
! pers went on repeating the falsehcod, and
| even tried to get Up a public meeting 10 de-
/ nOuuce me.
/ Meanwhile. people Of wicked or disor-
| Cered minds Of whom there are a large
| number in New York City, would cut these
! articles out and send them TO me. with
abuse and threats written on the margin
! 0r else with anonymous letters threatening
! me Some of them said l would be killed
| Probably they cared nothing about tht
| pictures but the particular disorder oi
bad a man I was Finally they printed
| that terrible cartoon of me entitled I ne
| Barker" I was dressed up as rurar
| and standing outside OF prizenght r1i9
! twfrIing a cane and barking for people tc
go I'm and see the sport. Two men slug
ging each other. one Of them down anc
bleeding were exposed IN the ring.
Hearst Papers Inflsr1ed Many.
Think Of one who has been more OF IL
hrarv student than anything else all his lff
and who never even saw a boxing mater
being pictured like thati But the Ignorant
and disOrdered minds believed II. ana
suppose many others who read no other
newspaper did, and were naturally IN