The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-12
TWO ARRESTED ON
BURGLARY CHARGE

Amuel Leman and Frank Wedeman were
arrested charged with burglary at about
] o'clock this morning when Captain of
Police Hawkins and Officers J. 7. Jones.
Puckett, Roberts. Frank and Hambright
surrounded the drug store of Morris &
Winton at Avenue F and Fifteenth street.
Leman is alleged to have been on the in
side of the drug store robblng it, while
Wedeman was on the outside watching
when the police arrived. Both men We're
taken TO headquarters and locked up
charged with burglary and grand larceny.
The burglary was about the only ex-
element the police had early this morn
ing and the burglar call was answered
by all the call men and scouts quickly
and this was responsible for the can
ture. The alleged burglars We're seen
breaking in and the police were notified
1t is said that both young men are well
known on the Southside.
no answer. and then as 1 passed | saw
a different quality in that smile
1T was as though If some distant
gentle voice whispered to his soul and
his soul was responding to call from
afar. A sense of foreboding came over
me- In the warm sun of noon | seemed
to feel a chill of the unknown, and only
a few minutes later the ship knew the
mayor had died..
Was Fast Failing
Mayor Gaynor sailed away from New
York on the forenoon of September 4
fast failing in health.
An hour before he sailed but one per-
son, his secretary knew of his planSaside
from members of his immediate family
and relatives
The apnounaa1 ,,tirpnca or tho ,,,o,-c,.
was brief vacation on the ocean. He
felt that tonic effect of the salt air would
restore him in some measure
Mr.. Gaynor left New York at a time
when the greater city was seething in
one of the strangest municipal political
campaigns in it's history.
The day before his departure he was
notified on the city hall steps by repre-
sentatives of independent political organ
izations that they had chosen him as their
standard bearer in the mayoralty CAM
paign.
A throng that crowded City Hall park
assembled to hear him accept the prof
fered nomination. He had prepared
speech of acceptance but was so weak
ened that he was unable to deliver 1t
and his secretary read the document for
him, Mr.. Gaynor standing nearby.
Before Mr.. Gaynor sailed his secre-
tary issued a statement denying reports
of the officials serious illness.
Throat Did Not Trouble Him
A recent attack of old throat trouble
due to the wounds inflicted upon him on
August 8, 1910, by James Gallagher, just
as he was about to leave this city for
brief vacation in Europe. had entirely
disappeared. according to Mr.. Adamson
and Mr.. Gaynor expected to enter the
campaign with mis- old-time yigor
ATr hi
ing spoke of his condition as follows:
I've been nearly four years mayor and
have not yet had any vacation. / sup
pose almost everybody will concede that.
l may have one now. I've been laying
up few days with one of the sharpest
of attacks that / occasionally experience.
This comes from my wound of a few
years ago I'm now over it and hope /
shall never have another"
He was expected to attack Tammany
Hall sharply politically as soon as he
returned 10 New York. Before his de-
parture he issued characteristic state
ment leveled at the head of Tammany
Hall and other political opponents, in
which he referred to them as mserab BILE
scamps and asserted they were seeking
his moral assassination.
1t. was the plan of the mayo, TO re-
main abroad less than one week He
expected to sail from Liverpool Septem-
Der IS and reach here September %
Mr.. Gaynor's sudden death completely
overturns the municipal situation 1t re-
moves from the field a candida G for
mayor who was expected to 1t heavy
inroads in the vote of John Purroy Mitch
el the fusion nominee, and laaves the
only tickets afield the democrats and
fusionists. Former Chairman o. the Pub
lie Service Commission Mccall is still in
the race.
Nominated by Independents
The nomination of Mr.. Gaynor was
brought about by no particular one
party but was purely Independent.
Friends who discussed his death to-
day expected his followers would mako
no attempt to nominate a candidate in
his stead No other places on the Gay
nor ticket have yet been filled
Mayor Gaynor was placed at the head
of the Independent ticket when Tam
many Hail refused him renomina-
tion He was to lead those who op-
posed more or less the regular demo-
cratic organization and yet were not
willing to join the fusion of repub-
licans and progressives.
His standard was the shovel, re-
minding the voters of his efforts to
hasten the. building of the new sub
ways. The mayor also said it was en-
blematic of his intention to clean out
the grafters.
William j. Gaynor was born near