The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1910-08-09
Mayor Gaynor, of New York, Shot
and Desperately Wounded by Old
Employee as He is About to Sail
Would.be Assassin Fires Five
Times al Executive...Is I'm.
mediately Arrested and
Held TO Answer.

Hoboken, N. J.( Aug. 9.-Mayor
J. Gaynor, prominently mentioned
as a Democratic gubernatorial and
presidential possibility, was the vic
time of a would-be-assassin shortly
before 10 o'clock today. While
Istanding under the bridge of the
Kaiser Wilhelm de Crosse, prepare
tory to embarking for months
vacation abroad, the mayor was
fired upon four times by man, who
gave the name Of James A. Gala
CHER, and who is said TO have been a
discharged employee OF the depart
ment of docks and ferries. But one
bullet struck Gaymor, this being be-
hind the right ear. After receiving
Temporary attention from the ship
surgeon, the mayor was rushed to
st. Mary's hospital, where, after an
examination by surgeons. it was an
nounced that though he was desper-
ately injured, the mayors wound
would not necessarily be fatal.
At the time OF the shooting the
mayor was standing on the forward
quarter deck chatting with ID. II.
Keille, of the Hoboken police, and
Phil Edwards, of the New York
street department. and President
Mont, of Chill, and the members of
the presidents party.
Members of the party said Gala
CHER opened fire without warning.
Edwards and Hughes seized the as
sailant and turned him over to the
Hoboken police. The mayor stag
gered into the arms of his secretary,
Robert Adamson.
After an examination, Drs. Strauch
and Meyer, of the liner. said" Only
one bullet hit Gaynor. II entered In
the back of the ear in the region of
1.-THE mastoid bone, and buried itself
The wound will not necessarily be
fatal.
Gallagher was rushed to police
headquarters and arraigned before
Recorder McGovern and remanded to
Jail without bail Gaynor intended
to take a trip through the North sea
to the Norway coast, and was making
the trip alone. At the hospital he
retained consciousness and asked
that his throat be cleared of blood.
Ether was then administered and
Surgeon Millsville started to probe
| for the bullet After a half hours
delay. the Kaiser wilhelm Der Crosse
sailed.
At the Hoboken police headquar-
ters the police got the following
statement from Gallagher:
81 came over to Hoboken about
g.: 20 this morning. ! met clergy
man and asked him to point Gaynor
out to me. Shortly afterwards l
fred a shot at the mayor. / do not
know whether | fired more than one
or not Knowing that Gaynor was
going to Europe to enjoy himself,
after depriving me of bread and but
ter and porterhouse steak. was ir-
ritated to the point of committing
1.-THE act The revolver that you show
me is the weapon that l did the
shooting with"
A bulletin at noon said Mayor Cay
nor was resting easily and Is not in
Immediate danger. The bullet has
not yet been located. The x ray
will be used. It entered the right
lposterior region of the neck and
ranged downward After the first
shot. Edwards caught Gallagher
about the waist and beat him about
the face. II was later found that
Edwards had been shot through the
neshy part of the left arm, but not
seriously. Theodore Roosevelt wired
message of sympathy to Mayor
Gaynor's secretary. Mayor Gaynor's
eldest daughter called before noon
but could not see her father. Later
Mrs. Gaynor. and son, Norman, were
taken to the sick room. The mayor
chatted with her.
i While being carried into the hos
pital this morning Mayor Gaynor
gasped to his secretary, Tell the
people good bye" then, 81 don't
mean that l still have got some
fight in me. Who did it,"