The Oskaloosa herald., 1910-08-18
iGAfN0R E|hER6INe
FROM DANGER ZONE
No Taints Of Blood Poisoning
Have Been Found.
SECOND MAN IS SUSPECTED
Police Have Theory Mayors Assallant
Had Accompllee, But Prisoner
Asserts No One In League
With Him.
SECOND MAN IS SUSPECTED

New York, Aug. 16.--Special: Mayor
Gaynor. was reported to be improving
at st. Mary's hospital. He slept from
1915 last night until o'clock this
morning. He then. stayed awake i'm
til five o'clock when he slept again
until 9to'clock. His condition is con
sidered satisfactory.
New York, Aug. 16.--Mayor Gaynor
continues to show further improve
ment and strength and is rapidly
emerging from the danger zone.
The official bulletins states that the
patient slept well, was taking plenty
of nourishment and that his general
condition was good.
One of those who sign the bulletins
said: ~.
"If at the end Of two weeks every
thing goes as well as at present, the
patient can be moved to the country"
VIII Go to Adlrondacks.
Rufus Gaynor, the son, is led to be-
lieve that his father will be able to
leave; St. Mary's hospital within, ten
days. He said:
I'VE have strong hopes that, really
he may be strong enough to walk out
of the hospital inside the estimated
ten days.
1T is his wish to go to the Adiron-
dacks, Many private camps have been
offered to him, but none of, these in
vitations has been. accepted. He can
be removed without discomfort
He is practically cured now. He
looks better than since the shooting.
The tenth day will end at ten,
o'clock Wednesday morning. But the
doctors will not feel, they say infor-
mally, that the wounded mayor is out
of the woods until few days later,
or the end of this week.
Blood tests taken revealed nothing
that was not entirely satisfactory"
Gallagher May Have Had Help.
New York police are engaging
themselves with the theory that
James J. Gallagher, the would-be as
sassin of Mayor Gaynor, had an &C
complete. Gallagher denies this, but
man with police record Is under
suspicion. u. a. II ,>:
From a participant in the confer
:ence with the Inspector of detectives
over the shooting 1t was learned that
1t did not bear upon any conspiracy
theory nor did it relate to the case Of
Patrolman Hook, accused by two
girls of having predicted that Mayor
Gaynor will get his"
Assistant Prosecutor James Nc
Carthy of Hudson county. New Jer-
sey, added confirmatory statements,
saying that he had sent detectives to
New York, and they had reported that
the present secretive police activity
was directed toward no conspiracy"
Prisoner Says He Was Alone.
Gallagher, In his cell said that he
took it upon himself to shoot the
mayor and that no one else was in
league with him. believe his story"
said Mr.. Mccarthy.
1t was intimated that the police in
quiry was concerned with GalIagher's
past.
Must Not Show Gaynor Shooting.
The New York police have taken
steps to prevent the exhibition here of
moving pictures of the shooting of
Mayor Gaynor. 1t was learned that
the police commissioner has issued or
ders to inspectors, captains and patrol
men to watch moving picture theaters
within their Jurisdiction and to notify
the proprietors and managers that any
reproduction of the shooting will not
be tolerated. The police of several
other cities have. indicated that they
will take similar steps, 1t is. said. =.
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