Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1910-08-29
GAYAOR TAKEN
HOME FROM
HOSPITAL
WOUNDED MAYOR WEAK,
BUT IN GOOD SPIRITS
Distressing Incidents Follow At
tempt to Walk Unaidedi
Bears No Resentment Toward
Man Who Shot Him,


thv nsrsinE Jourssl special leased wirsl
New York. Aug. 2S.-Mayor Gay
nor was taken from st Mnry's hos
pital IN Hoboken this morning 10
Deep Wells his country place al
ST. Jamesl l.. l. lie bore the trip
well. hut his insistent plea to he al
lowed To walk unafded resulted in
two distressing incidents.
once be sank TO his knees rs he
tried To enter an automobile and in
ascending the steps OF his home, ne
fell on all.fours' fro'n over exertion
Despite his weakness, ne maintained
his cheerful mood and once at Deep
Wells" spent the afternoon reclining
In o chair on the veranda.
The mayor left the hospital at
$40 o'clock this morning lilo had
been there since Tuesday, August 9,
the day on which he was shot ny
James j. Gallagher, a DISCHARGED
city employe on the deck or the steam
ship Kaiser Wilhelm der Crosse.
Drawn up in the court yard OF the
hospital to give him a final salute
were fifty orphan children cared for
by the institution, Mayor Gaynor in-
sieted on stopped to speak TO each
one and several he patted on the head.
He walked unaided from his room
on the fourth floor TO the elevator,
and from the ground floor to the
automobile ia which ne was driven TO
n New York police patrol boat WALTZ
ing for him at q pier IN Hohoben.
As he entered the automobile his
knees bent under him at every step,
At the dock he walked across the
gansplask and aboard the police
boat without help.
AZ Long Island city he walked
down the deck and across the gang
plank unassis,ed, but took firm hold
on the rail. With permission OF DR.,
George s. Stewart, who was waiting,
lie walked co an electric cab. Here
the mayor miscalcnlated his strength
IN irving "a get into the cab n sank
TO his. knees.
~ Decause Of the hnndages around
his neck, covering part OF his face,
few people recognized the mayor In
the Long Island city station, There
he was transferred TO the private car
OF President Ralph Peters. OF the
Lond Island railroad and this was at
tached 10 a special traiu.
Al st James he smiled and greeted
those nearest among the neighbors
gathered IN receive him and was
wtried rapidly 10 Deep Wells. arriving
shortly after noon.
In hts JOY az e aching home, the
mayor iattemnted 70 go up the steps
alone, He got only part way. and
then with q piiiable show OF weakness
fell unon his hands and knees, He
waa not injured. nor would he admit
that he had fallen because of lack
Oh strength. lie insisted that he was
strong,
Dnly two nelghhors were permitted
to see him. TO one who commented
upon the attempt to assassinate him,
Mayor Gaynor said.
II am content NY great hope Is
that the event viii help to make me
n fetter man and more patient and
JUST
The mayor manifests a disinclina-
ton TO discuss the shooting and those
words are practically the first state
mtnt OF hls attitude on the matter.
Secretary Adamson said tonight
that for the present no operation for
the removal OF the bullet In the
mayors throat void be performed,
The mayor is sim unable TO make
himself understood except with great
difficulty. and he eth IL bothered
with a cough and has trouble IN
swallowmg
His physicians do not appear alarmed
however, and ascribe his weakness TO
his enforced confinement In the hos
pital. It ~ probable that his pro
iectad trip to the Adirondacks VIII
he abandoned. at least for the present.