Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-02-27
WILL TAKE RODY
Of DR.. GAYhOa To
BROOKLYN TO-DAY
Once Prominent Physician VIC
tim of Fall at Boarding
House.
is NOT A NEPHEW
OF MAYOR GAYNOR
Deceased Came Here Five Years
AgO-Owned Much
Property.

Arrangements for the removal to
Brooklyn of the body of DIR. John Gay
nor, who died In the City Hospital yes
terday as the result of a fall at his
boarding house, % Columbia street,
were made today by Mrs. Agnes
O'Brien, of 66S Eastern parkway, Brook
lyn, his sister.
DIR. Raymond G. Laub an interne in
the Kingston Avenue Hospital. Brook
lyn, and DR.. Gaynor's nephew, declared
positively today that his uncle was not
relative Of Mayor Gaynor. Mrs. Mar
garet Cozzens, who has been janitress
for the family for the last eighteen
years. was just as emphatic In declar-
Ing that DIR. Gaynor was a member CT
the family Of which the mayor of New
YORK Is the best-known member Mrs.
Cozzens has charge of a house at 10
Smith street in the block which in
| cluded 266 Pacific street and which is
owned by the heirs of DIR. Gaynor's
father.
The explanation given County Ply
sician Mckenzie by George Maguinnes,
a friend of Or. Gaynor's, and a roomer
in the Columbia street house, was ac-
cepted. Maguinnes said when he re-
turned to the h Saturday night he
found DIR. Gaynor lying on his bed.
The rooms occupied by the two men
adjoin. He said he aroused DR.. Gay
nor and told him to go to his own
II nn
entangled in the bed clothing as he was
getting from the bed and he fell heav
fly, striking his head on the edge of
the door. Z was seen at once that the
physician was seriously injured and an
ambulance was summoned from the
City Hospital. The injured man was
treated for scalp wound. 1t was dis
covered after his death that he had
been suffering from fracture of the
skull.
Claimed Relationship with Mayor.
Maguinnes said he and DIR. Gaynor
were friends and that Gaynor had
frequently told him he was a relative
of the Mayor of New York. He said
the physician was always plentifully
supplied with money-the rent from his
Brooklyn real estate holdings.
Outside the circle of his relatives and
intimates there was some mystery at
tached to the disappearance" of DR..
Gaynor from Brooklyn five years ago.
He was but 2S years old at that time
and was enjoying a comfortable prac-
tise, when he suddenly dropped out OF
sight with his two boys, both at that
time less than years old 1t was
said DIR. Gaynor had left Brooklyn and
given up his practise because of his
grief over the death of his wife year
before Others say DIR. Gaynor was
disappointed in love whel he sought to
marry second time, but his relatives
deny this.
Communicated with Relatives.
1t is said that so far as his relatives
were concerned DIR. Gaynor never dis
appeared. He Was in communication
with them all the time and received
the rent from his houses regularly
from Mrs. Annie Ryan. caretaker of
the Pacific street house. DR.. Gaynor's
eldest son Edwin has been living with
his aunt, Mrs. o'Brien, and Arnold, the
other boy, is in a boarding school in
Morristown
DIR. Gaynor did not come to the Co
lumba street boarding house until late
in January Of the present year. 1t is
said that since he eft Brooklyn he had
led an all but nomadic life, staying but
a few months in each place. He prac-
tised for time in Lakewood. He was
being treated In st. James's Hospital
when he met Maguinnes, a patient
there.
Magazines, who was suffering from
pneumonia, believed that DR.. Gaynor
saved his life one night in the hospital
by prompt and skilful treatment and
was duly grateful. When DIR. Gaynor
sought place. to board Maguinnes
took him to his own boarding house in
Columbia street.
DR.. Gaynor is said to have resorted
occasionally to the use of drugs for a
nervous disorder, and 1t is believed he
was partially under their influence
when he fell Saturday night.
Mrs. Laub, another sister of Dr. Gay
nor. made tentative arrangements with
Undertaken Edward J. Murphy, of 54S
Orange street, Yesterday for the re-
moval of the body to Brooklyn, where
funeral services are to be held. Inter
ment Is to be in Calvary Cemetery.