Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-11
COMMISSIONER EDWARDS
GETS THREAT IN LETTER

NEW YORK, Aug. 10.-Interest cen
ters in the mayors condition, but Gal
lagher, now processing trace OF penl-
tence for his deed, commanded furtheT
notoriety from his cell in Jersey City
this evening.
An anonymous letter, Vulsarly
couched and threatening the life OF
Street Commissioner Edwards, whose
blows felled Gallagher to the deck OF
the Kaiser Wilhelm der Crosse, started
a perfunctory police investigation, but
generally the action Is attributed to
a crank. Although it predicted for
big Bill' a fate similar to the may
or's, the former 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 tang
ible had developed tonight.
Policeman Joseph P. Hook of the
.Adison street station, whose num-
ber 7846, is the number given by the
girls, was suspended from duty to-
night pending investigation. Hook
has been on the force three years The
mayor has been drastic in his police
betterment crusade and he has many
enemies on the force.
STATEMENT BY GALLAGHER
Gallagher's statement this evening
was his first frank talk concerning the
crime.
while I will not say that am sor
ry," he said, II now hope that the
mayor gets we'll But l wanted to
teach high officials to regard the rights
of subordinates. l consider that had
to shoot the mayor as a lesson to the
country. did what 1 did for per-
sonal- principles and was not prompted
by any anarchistic belief
'I am sorry that Commissioner Ed
wards was wounded, for 1 was Ginning
at the mayor But even the thought
my mind. In fact I reached no de-
cision until got up in the morning.
The paper said Gaynor was going to
sail for vacation. That made me
angry-to think that he should have
a vacation in Europe while 1 did not
even have chance to work, much less
a vacation. So 1 hurried over to the
Twenty-third street ferry AMI inquired
my way to the Kaiser Wilhelm.
my wrongs had proved more than
1 thought could bear. Over and over
I sized up my hard station in life and
contrasted 1t with that of some other
men-of Mayor Gaynor, who had
-onged me, in particular. At length,
I determined to seek the revenge that
I concluded should be justly mine.
was not drunk as has been intiinated.
Had heard of President McEinley's
assassinati tion? OF course, and 1 be-
lieve assassination is sometimes right.
II had carried gun for nine years.
1 feared the enemies 1 had made by
writing letters when I was trying to
reform the dock department"
JERSEY OFFICERS ANGRY
There is marked determination among
the New Jersey authorities to make
Gallagher an example of "quick Jersey
Justice" but it was definitely deter
mined tonight not to lay his case before
the grand jury, pending the outcome
of the mayors injuries.
If the mayor RECEIVERS Gallagher will
be quickly tried, charged with assault
with intent to kill, for which he may
receive a sentence of twenty years. If
his victim should die the charge would
be first degree murder, the penalty for
which is death.
For a man who so narrowly escaped
instant death by an assassin's bullet,
Mayor Gaynor spent a cheerful day.
With the ever-present possibility of
blood poisoning, the anxiety of those
every bulletin of the day concerning his
condition was optimistic. He conversed
eheerfully with those who saw him, and