New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-08-10
GALLAGHER A TAMMANY
MAN WHO LOST lob
Dismissed in Routine Fashion,
He Brooded Over Trouble and
Asked Mayors Help.
REBUFFED AT CITY HALL
Many Charges Against Him in
Dock Department Led to His
Trial and the Dropping of
His Name from Roll.

Mayor Cfaynor on the deck Of the Kaiser
Wilhelm der Crosse. at the North Ger
man LLOYD pier yesterday, fancied him.
self the victim of a plot TO deprive him
OF his lob as a night Waterman in the
Dock Department. Brocding OF MS
imagined wrongs. after he had been un-
able to gain admission TO the Mayors
Office, he sought TO avenge himself on
the chief executive Of the city,
Gallagher has lived for the last two
wears in a boarding house at the rear of
Nc 40 Third avenue. He is a quiet, re-
firing man. and his fellow boarders
knew little about his business. Mrs
Sophie Johansen. a middle aged Ger
man woman, whose husband, Swede,
is carpenter, kept the house at No. 40
Third avenue.
Friends of Gallagher say that the man
has been going around for the last week
threatening Mayor Gaynor and Com
missioner Torlkins. but those who knew
him thought he was harmless. Some
eight or nine years ago he suffered from
sunstrole, they said, and his mind was
affected at the time. He lived in the
sd Assembly District then, near St
Nicholas avenue and 140th street.
Gallagher Once Under Arrest.
About that time Gallagher was ar
rested, charged with annoying young
women in the parks. The magistrate
before whom he was arraigned inquired
into the affair. and decided that the man
meant no harm, but was somewhat
weak minded He WAS discharged with
r warning.
On Monday Gallagher called on
friend in the courthouse and sought to
borrow So II will be put out Of my
room if 1 do not pay my rent he re-
marked. The friend couldn't help him
at the time and he went away, mutter-
ing that he would get even with those
responsible for his trouble.
Gallagher said that he had been in
the Brooklyn navy yard, but had lost
his job there in 1899. After that he lived
for a time in The Bronx, and afterward
on Washington Heights. After brief
lperiod outside the organization Gal
lasher returned TO the Tanlmany fold,
and on ApriI 4. 1903, he was appointed
a night Waterman in the Dock Depart
than two years ago. For time, accord
ing 10 Toby Roache, a waiter at Black
wells Island. he lived at No. sos East
36tlr street The woman who now keeps
a boarding house at that address knows
nothing of Gallagher, however, as she
has been in the place only a little more
than year.
Mrs. Sophie Johansen. Gallagher's
latest landlady, when she was told yes
terday that her boarder had tried to
llin the Mayor. exclaimed with an accent
of disgust THE old fool! What did he
want TO do that for2"
Mrs Johansen said that as far as she
knew, the man had no relatives He
told her that he was a widower, and he
had no visitors.
He was quiet, respectable. decent
man. she said yesterday. Il knew
that he had lest his job lately, but he
seemed TO have money, for he paid his
rent regularly ! never had to ask him
for il. He always paid on Saturday.
This morning he came in between and
= o'clock. I had TO be up and l saw
him come in. He was as usual He
made 7ome remark: 1T is raining or
1t is going TO rain.' something like
that, and went back TO his own part Of
the house. I did not know he had gone
out again until / heard he had shot
Mayor Gaynor.
No Visitors, but Many Letters.
He never had visitors, but he got
quite a few letters. They were all, or
nearly all. from real estate firms. or
business letters, for they all had names
printed on them
was he in the habit of going around
with any woman In this neighborhood?"
che was asked
Not in this house.. SAID airs. johann
sen, bridlfng up. There are TO women
here except my sister and myself and
the woman who has a room on the
ground floor of the house at the rear"
WAS he In the habit of bringing in a
can Of beer?"
mo, that is not true. He had a can
like a beer can IN his room, but it was
milk he brought from the grocery in
that can. One morning. some time ago,
he came in and asked me If / wanted
drink from his can. I said did not care
for beer, and he took the cover off and
showed me that il was milk he had, and
not beer.
II do not know what ne did in politics,
nor DO l know whether he attended
church l think he had some money,
though, for he had been working stead
ily and did not spend much. He was al
WAYS sober and decent when 1 saw him"
do you know whether he had lost
money lately?"
No. ] do not. There was some
excitement in the house over the big
fight Some lost on the white man and