The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-08-09
Assassin Felled By Big Bil; Edwards, Who Received One of the Bullets in Making His Flying
 Tackle. WhenTaker<to Police Head quarters, the Fan, at First Thought to Be a Crank, Repeatedly Said the
 Mayor. Deprived
 Him of His Bread
 and Butter.
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 Hoboken, N. J., Aug. 9-Mayor William J. Gaynor, prominently men tioned as Democratic Gubernatorial and Presidential possibility, was the victim of a would-be assassin shortly before 10 o'clock today. While standing under the bridge of the Kali ser Wilhelm Der Crosse preparatory to embarking for a months vacation abroad, the Mayor was fired upon three times by a man who gave his name as James J. Gallagher and who is a. discharged employe of the De- partment of Docks and Fairies.
 After receiving temporary attention man was rushed in an auto-ambu- lance to St. Mary's hospital, where shortly after 10:30 and following an examination by the surgeons, it was announced that although he was des- perately injured, the Mayors wounds would not necessarily prove fatal.
 It was stated that of the three shots fired by the wouldbe murderer, but one took effect in the back of the victim.
 At the time of the shooting the Mayor, accompanied by his secretary, Robert Adamson, Big Bill'' Edwards, head of the New York street cleaning department, and D. K. Kelley, of the Hoboken police, was standing on the forward port deck of the big liner, chatting with President Montt of Chile and the wife and members of the Presidents suite.
 According to those in the party, Gallagher approached and without a word of warning opened fire. Three shots had left the assailant's revolver when he was seized by Edwards and Kelley and hustled down the gang plank and turned over to the Hobo ken police. Gallagher was immed- lately rushed to headquarters to be "sweated" by the officers.
 AS he staggered into the arms of a chair and later to his suite where it was seen that his condition was so serious as to make necessary his inn mediate removal to the hospital. As soon as the injured man had been removed to St. Mary's, Doctors Strauch and Meyer of the liner gave out the following description of the Mayors injuries:
 But one bullet hit Mayor Gaynor. This entered back of the ear in the region of the mastoid bone where it buried itself and so far as a prelim- mary examination discloses the in jury will not necessarily prove fatal" /"
 Mayor Gaynor did not lose con- SciouSneSS 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 blood. Ether was then administer ed and Surgeon Melville of St. Mary s started to probe for the bullet. Af- ter a delay of half an hour the Kali ser Wilhelm Der Crosse cast off and got under way.
 The Mayor was accompanied to the hospital by one of his sons, Rufus, who was at the dock to bid him fare we'll.
 In the unlikely event that Mayor Parroy Mitchell, president of the Board of Aldermen, and a Republi- can, would succeed him.
 The capture of the would-be aSsas- sin was as spectacular as the shoot ing itself. Gallagher fired three striking Mayor Gaynor. Bystanders declare the other two were fired at Robert AdamsOn, the Mayors private secretary, but if they were they went wild for Adamson was uninjured.
 William H. C"Big BilPO Edwards, commissioner of the street cleaning department of New York, a former Princeton football star, who was with Mayor Gaynor and who overpowered the assailant, was shot through the fleshy part of the left arm near the shoulder by one of the aSSaSsin'S bull lets.
 Big Bill'', the greatest guard who ever smashed up a line for Prince ton, made spectacular flying tackle, catching Gallagher about the knees and hurling him to the deck with terrific force. Then Ed wards, who tips the scale at $50 pounds and who is as strong as an OK. sat astride the would-be mur- derer's chest while Adamson, after assisting Mayor Gaynor to a chair, sprang upon the prostrate Gallagher, a dock laborer joining in the melee.
 Edwards knew nothing of his wound until he reached the hospital with Mayor Gaynor. Attention was call ed to the fact that blood was dripping constantly from his coat sleeve. He said he felt twitching sensation in the arm and it was discovered that the bullet had ploughed through his arm. inflicting, however, only a slight flesh wound. Edwards was given medical attention. but was not put to bed.