Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-01-19
EDWARDS GETS HERO MEDAL
Report Gives Commissioner Credit for
Attacking Assassin.
TWENTY. SIX AWARDS ARE MADE


PTTTSRURG. Jan. 1S.-One Of the recipi-
ents of a silver medal from the Carnegie
Hero fund today is New Yorlfs street
cleaning commissioners william II. Ed
wards in connection with the shooting oil
Mayor william j. Gaynor on the deck OF
the Kaiser Wilhelm Der Crosse at Ho-
boken, N. J., August 3.
The report of the commissions inVesu-
gator says that he saved number OF per
sons from being shot at the hands Of an
assassin; that Mayor Gaynor having been
shot in the head at close range Edwards
threw himself on the man with the upraised
pistol and bore him to the deck on his
back.
As Edwards fell on top of him the pistol
WAS discharged again and the bullet grazed
Edwards forearm Others hurried to pinion
the mans arms, but before they accom-
plished it the pistol was discharged third
time Edwards then arrested the assailant;
the report says
Twenty-six awards in recognition of acts
of heroism were made by the Carnegie
Hero fund commission. sixteen bronze and
ten silver medals besides cash awards be
ing authorized. Nineteen of the awards
were made i'm rescue or attempted
rescues from drowning three from fire
! TWO from SullOCdllOn III NellS anu olo ShNll
from train and shooting.
In nine instances the heroes lost their
lives and the award is made to a mem
Der of the family.
Partial List of Awards.
Among others to receive awards are:
Roy A. Fees Emporia, Kan, died at
tempting to save from drowning f. Albert
Heaton, 25 years old. at Elmdale, Kan.
August 10, 1910. Silver medal to widow with
$500 to liquidate mortgage on property and
$50 a month pension
f. Kent Smith died attempting to save
| from suffocation two men thought to have
| been in a mine at Bingham Canyon, Utah,
| November p, 1908. Silver medal to widow
with SIS a month pension and So additional
for minor child.
James T. Mason, As years old helped
save from drowning Mary F. Dolan Van
l.. Holiday Carroll V. Rector and William
b. Sweet of Grand Rapids. Wis, May 20,
1909. Bronze medal
George Is Muir. % years old assisted
Mason in drowning rescue. Bronze medal.
Harry L. Masser of. Los Angeles, Il
years old, helped save from drowning
Bertha L. Phllsburg at Yosemite, Cal,
August y, 1907. Bronze medal.
' Jerome Miller, A years old, saved Will
/ ldill - oldptl liOil a buiihuB launch dl
Oshkosh Wis October 16, 1905 Bronze
medal.
Guy t. Empey 10 years old, saved from
drowning Corneia f. Denne. II years old
at Merrill, Wis, November 29, 1906 Bronze
medal
James V. Logan, 80 years old. saved
/ from drowning d. Ward Denton, aged le
years at Burnside, Ky, July %, 1903
Bronze medal and S2,OO0 10 educate his
children as needed.
Charles r. McCabe Of Chicago, 20 years
old, saved from drowning George M. Cum,
Minis aged %, at Sayner, Wis, June 2S
1909. Bronze medal and 81 900 as needed.
Fred b. Karr OF Seneca Ill, so years old
saved from being run over by train Will
lam DamaszewslSi, aged :, at Kankakee
H., July 2. 1908. Bronze medal and 800
to purchase farm,
Robert c. Woods Of Mankato MINI. 3
years old, died attempting 10 save Harr,
Astrom, aged 10. who was drowned a
south Bend, Mimi, July l1. 1910 Bronz,
medal TO Woods mother and S2J a montI
pension for five wears.
This was the annual meeting Of the her,
, commission and am officers were re
elected. Several changes were made n
previous awards to meet changed con
diu3ns Of the recipient