New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-08-11
CALLAGHER'S DEFENCE
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| matter when you get II. Then on July
81 Gallagher received the letter from the
commissioner discharging him.
There are some fine men in the de-
partment, but the majority of them are
scamps." said Gallagher. with consider
able show of feeling. II told Commits
sioner Tompkins that he was in it for
$500 and some for $4,000, and SO on,
and that / was In it for only $3.50 and
my promotion had not come. as 1t had
to others, who had not been in the de-
partnent as many years as /. They
don't put the right men at the head OF
the departments. No one would put
you or me at the head of bank II we
hadn't worked in bank and knew some
thing about the business. 1t Is the same
way with some Of the men who hold the
| responsible positions in the city depart
| ments.
Complains Of His Trial.
so you see / didn't get fair trial
| or square deal--that was all wanted.
Any one got a match" then asked Gal
lagher When his pipe was lighted he
got it going well and continued:
After / was discharged on July 81 7
wrote Mayor Gaynor letter. 1 made
up my mind It was the last appeal /
| would make. In the letter / asked the
Mayor to give me a square deal for the
love of justice. as q lawyer, jurist and
a judge. II all my letters to Mayor
Gaynor have been kept they are the
| best proof Of my case
Gallagher referred to his Affiliations in
politics and said:
Il was at one time as stanch a Demo-
crat as was ever in Tan,many Hall. 1
knew all the leaders and got them all to
sign my petition for a place in the Dock
Department I always stuck to Tam
many Hall until Hearst ran for Mayor,
and / voted for him. But I want every
tics in this case"
Gallagher smoked for some time in
silence. Finally he raised his head and
said slowly:
These are all facts, and facts are
stubborn things. You can. kalsonine
over like the wall of this room. but the
four letters F A c will always stand
out"
Gallagher said he had lived good deal
alone in recent years and that some of
his habits had not been always perfect.
II am not any better than I ought to
be-" he said, but like a good many of
us. consider myself a good man as we
go. 1t isn't my nature to toady after
any one and bow down to any man. I
consider any man as good as Rockefel-
Ter and Carnegie or any others 1t is
the principle that makes the man, not
his name or his money"
Have you ever done much reading?"
Gallagher was asked.
Talks About Shakespeare.
why. no." said the prisoner, refec-
| lively. Il always read the papers pretty
thoroughly. and once in a while a little
from the Bible and my Shakespeare. 1
! liked to study Shakespeare and try to
| understand the meaning between the
| lines. There are many students that
never understood him. Hamlet is my
favorite play. 1 saw Booth play Ham
let four or five times, and there was no
actor who ever played the part half SC
well. l went often to see others play it.
| but they didn't grasp the part and make
| it interesting"
| The prisoner waxed fervid about his
| favorite author, and seemed to forget
| his predicament and surroundings en-
tireIy in quoting whole stanzas from
| Hamlet's part. ITO be or not to be-" he
started in a solemn voice, and con-
tinued through most of the soiloquy.
He quoted from other plays of Shake
| speare, and became more and more ami
| mated in his conversation about the
various characters. He appeared to
have a studious knowledge of the great
| bard.
Gallagher said he was in the navy for
| two or three years, and was honorably
! discharged in 1899. He said he enlisted
at the time that the Smithsonian Insti-
| tuition organized an expedition to South
/ Africa to study the eclipse. and went as
"a landsman' aboard the Pensacola.
Gallagher said that James w. Nc
Carthy, Assistant Prosecutor of Hudson
| County, VINO has charge of the case in
! the absence of Prosecutor Pierre Gar
| Ven, had talked with him at the jail and
| promised that he would get a fair trial.
Says He is Not an Anarchist.
| The prosecutor mentioned the assas-
sination of President Mckinley in con-
nection with my act" said Gallagher.
'but there is no parallel in the two
! cases. The man who shot Mckinley was
crank. an anarchist. and I am moth
ing like that. l was fighting for prin-
cipie. and have my own ideas concern
| ing the righting of a personal grievance,
but ! am not a socialist or a man with
out reason
Mt. Jacktoff cautioned Gallagher not
to discuss any Of his actions on the day
of the shooting, although the prisoner
asked that he might do so, and sug-
gested that he had talked enough Gal
lagher was insistent that the newspaper
men should state his case as he had told
It, and thanked them for coming to see
him. He appeared much exhausted after
his talk, but, lighting his pipe again,
which he smokes necessarily, he ambled
off to his cell with his keepers.
Warden Sullivan said he believed Gal
la CHER was paranoiac. and was having