The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1910-08-20
MAYOR GAYNOR IS
SHOT BY ASSASSIN
Discharged City E mp oyee
Wounds Gotham Executive
in Neck.
TRAGEDY ON BOARD STEAMER
Chief Executive Of New York City
Badly Wounded by a Discharged
City Employee as He Is About to
Sail for Europe.

Sail for Europe.
New York.-As he stood on the
deck of the steamer Kaiser Wilhelm
der Crosse at the Hoboken pier about
to sail for Europe, William ]. Gaynor.
mayor of New York, was shot at three
times by an assassin Tuesday morn
ing. One OF the three bullets struck
him in the neck and he fell, seriously
wounded The physicians who first
attended the victim said the bullet
entered the neck back of the right
ear and lodged in the region of the
mastoid bone. They added that they
believed Mr.. Gaynor was not fatally
wounded.
Blood poisoning, they said, was the
only thing they feared that would pre-
vent the mayor from recovering OF his
wound. The surgeons will not attempt
to extract the bullet, which lodged
in the patients tongue until after he
has gained his normal strength. m
The assassin was Jules James Gal
lagher, 440 Third avenue. New York.
He was appointed Waterman in the
dock department April Z, 1903, and
was discharged July 10, 1910, after
having been found guilty of neglect
of duty and of misconduct. His only
explanation of his deed was the state
ment: "Gaynor has deprived me OF
my bread and butter" After his dis
charge he wrote number of letters
to the mayor.
Party Was Posing for Photograph.
Mayor Gaynor and number of city
officials were standing in a group to
have their pictures taken. Gallagher
quietly walked toward them, drew a
revolver and fred three shots. Two
of them went wide of the mark, but
the third struck the mayor in the
neck, and he fell to the deck with the
blood squirting from the wound.
officer Fitzgehring, one of the
North German Lloyd guards, was
standing near. The assassin lifted
the revolver again to fire at his pros
trate victim when the German police
man felled him to the deck with a
terrific crash from his club. A rush
and officers of the liner, with revolv-
ers drawn, fought back the Infatuated
spectators and police from Hoboken
were quickly on the scene.
A score of policemen with naval re-
serve sailors from the liner were
needed to convey the man to jail.
Outside the dock gates, where the
news spread quickly, a mob Of dock
laborers and stevedores made a rush
for the police, one of them actually
getting his hands on the prisoner, but
they were beaten back.
Mayor Gaynor was carried from the
ship on stretcher and taken to st.
was being borne away he said in
whisper: Say goodbye TO the peo-
pie" When he reached the hospital
he was still conscious, though blood
from the wound kept getting into his
throat and choking him. Drs. Stewart
and Brewer of New York took charge
of the case and expressed hope of the
mayors recovery.
Sketch Of His Career.
William ]. Gaynor was of Irish Eng
fish stock and the son of man who
supported Gerritt Smith, the abolition
list friend of John Brown Of the Har-
per's Ferry antebellum period. He
was born on his fathers farm at Oris-
kany, near Whitestone, Oneida coun-
ty, N. Y. in 1851, the soil of which
farm was cleared by his struggle for
bare necessities on that little farm
and Mr.. Gaynor's boyhood was one OF
hard toll.
He studied law In Boston and To-
Gated in Flatbush, Long Island, where
he soon after successfully carried out
reform movement
Having smashed the political rings
or Slatbush, the young lawyer In 1885
changed his place of residence to
Brooklyn, in which city Boss" Hugh
Mclaughlin had welded despotic pow
er for quarter Of a century. Mr..
Gaynor then studied the great Nc
Laughlin ring, and formulated a plan
for the overthrow Of the boss" His
great opportunity came in 1889. when
the town of New Lots was annexed to
Brooklyn. There was a little water
company In New Lots known as the
Long Island Water Supply company.
The Mclaughlin ring secretly bought
up the company through dummies, for
$1S5,000, and then got Alfred G. Cha
pin, mayor Of Brooklyn, and his asso-
ciates to make a contract to buy It for
the city for about $1,000, 000-a profit