Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-08-09
GAY NDRiSHOT
Crank Shoots New zork's Executive
on Board Ocean steamer-MayorA About
In rake a Trip Abroad.

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New York, Aug. 9.--Mayor William,
J. Gaynor, of New York, was shot by
a crank as he was about to board the
North German Lloyd steamer Kaiser
Wilhelm der Crosse this morning. His
ton is thought to hc serious.
Tho would-be assassin was immed-
ately captured and taken to the Ho-
boken police headquarters. The mayor
was about to start on Il months vaca
condition in Europe.
The man upon being arrested gave
his name as James j. Gallagher, aged
IS. Gallagher was discharged fore
man from the dock department. The
shooting occurred just after the mayor
had boarded the steamer at the Ho-
boken pier. Mayor Gaynor was inn
mediateIy hurried to st. Mary's Hospl-
tai, Hoboken.
The physicians there pronounced his
case serious.
At the moment OF the shooting
Mayor Gaynor was standing in the
companionway under the bridge on the
port side. convcrsing with President
Mont, OF Chile, and the latter's wife.
Without word Of warning the
would-be assassin fired, and as the
mayor staggered into the arms OF his
secretary, Robert Adalnnson, the blood
streamed down his neck from the
wound in the back of his head. The
injured man WAS Immediately carried
to his suite of rooms on the same deck
on which he was standing and was in y
couple of minutes attended by the Ship
physicians.
In the meantime an ambulance
arrived in response to hurry call and
after his wounds had been bandaged
the mayor was rushed TO st. Mary's
Hospital in an ambulance.
AS soon rs the mayor had been
carried to the operating room at st.
Mary's Hospital, all inquiries as to his
condition remained unanswered until
the result of the examsnation of his
wound could be ascertained.
Secretary Adamson accompanied the
mayor to the hotpital. At l0:2o
Adamson came from the operating
room and told the reporters that he did
not believe tile wounds would prove
fatal.
But one bullet hit Mayor Gaynor.
This entered back of the ear in the re-
gion of the mastoid bone, where it
buried itself and, SO far as a preliminary
examination discloses, the injury will
not necessarily prove fatal.
Mayor Gaynor did not lose conscious
ness, but remained calm and quiet as
he was-being transferred to the hospital.
Upon arrival there he asked that an
effort be made to clear his throat OF the
fast accommodating blooG. Ether was
then administered and Surgeon Mel
VILE Of St. Mary's, started TO probe for
the bullet.
Gallagher was arraigncd before Re
corder McGovern and rcmanded to jail
without bail.
At the Hoboken police headquarters
the police elected the following state
mcnt from Gallagher:
Il came over toHoboken about 800
this morning. | went TO the steamer
pier and went on board the Kaiser
Wilhelm der Crosse. | met clergy
man on board OF Che 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 or not.
Knowing that Mayor Gaynor was going
to Europe this morning to enjoy him
self after depriying me OF my bread
and butter-not porterhouse steak
was irritated to the point Of committing
the act. The revolver that you show
MEAS the desk sergeant brought
forth the gun the police had taken from
Gallagher)-is the revolver that done
the shooting with. l don't know how
many shots were in the revolver when
| used it. I have had the revolver a
long time in my possession. | carried
it when | was in the employ OF the
city"
When Gallagher was brought back
to the Hoboken jail he was again ar
raigned be fore Recorder McGovern. The
recorder questioned Gallagher at some
length, but ELECTED nothing more than
the prisoner had told the police in hi
statement. He said he had no counse
and expected to have none. McGoverr
remanded him to the Hudson county
Jail at Jersey City to await the action o.
the grand jury He was Immediately
taken to Jersey City.
Gallagher showed some reluctance
about talking, and the impression
first created, that he was crank, was
later dissipated. He appeared rational
and did not show the least excitement
talking calmly and naturally. He wa
very bitter against the mayor, anl
INDUCED in some rough sarcasm.
Gallagher is wiIower with nj
children, and lived at 440 Third Avenue
New York. He was discharged on Jan
/, from the department of docks ant
ferries by'Commissioner Tompkins, OF
charges OF intoxication. At that time
he had been in the employ Of the city
four years and four days.
In the unlikely event that Mayor
Gaynor's injuries prove fatal, JOIN
Purroy Mitchell, president OF the boar(
of aldermen, and republican, would
succeed him.
The capture of the would-be assassin
was as spectacular as the shooting it
self. Gallagher fired three shots II
rapid succession, the first striking
Mayor Gaynor. Bystanders declare that