New Britain herald., 1914-04-18
NAHONEY IS HELD
 IN $25,oO0 BAIL
w0u|dBe Assassin Charged With Attempted Murder in First Degree.
POLK PASSES RESTLESS NIGHT
Attempted Assassination Causes Po- lice Commissioner Woods to Assign Eight Secret Service Men as n Guard to Mayor Mitchell.

 Guard to Mayor Mitchell. New York, April 1S.--Michael P. Mahoney, who yesterday attempted to assassinate Mayor Mitchell and in so doing wounded Frank L. Polk, cor poration counsel, was arraigned in the Tombs police court today on a charge of attempted murder in the first degree. He was held in $25,- 900 bail for the action of the grand jury.
 When the amount of the bail was announced by Magistrate s'mms, Ma honey, smiled broadly and said: Why not boost it a little? The more the merrfer.''
 MT. Polk was resting quietly at the New York hospital today. Sur geons expect he will recover rapidly. if no complications develop. He spent comfortable night
 Before his arraignment Mahoney was taken to police headquarters. where 250 detectives, all masked, Hooked him over.' None of them was positive he had ever seen the man before.
 Mahoney when questioned by detec- tives explained that when he bought the revolver he fired yesterday he told the man who sold it to him in Jersey City that he wanted to kill a rat"
 Grand Jury Proceedings.
 On Monday MT. Whitman will pre- sent the case to the grand jury and an immediate indictment is expected to be returned, making it possible to | hvtN EuI court justice for trial at an early date.
 Mahoney faces a possible prison sentence of twenty years, but should he be adjudged insane he will be committed to an asylum for the crim- final insane.
 Spent Restless Night. Frank l.. Polk, corporation coun- sel, who was struck in the jaw by the bullet intended for the mayor, spent restless night and suffered much pain. The bullet was removed early last night and his physicians an- nounced today that the patient would be able to leave the hospital within two days and after a rest of two weeks be fit to resume his official duties.
 From the many incoherent letters written by Mahoney in which he at- tackled the official acts of Mayor Mitchell of this city, of Mayor Arm strong of Pittsburg and of Col. Goe- thals, governor of the Panama canal zone. and after a two hours study Of the aged man. District Attorney Whitman expressed the opidbon that Mahoney was of the ''embitt red and nf hAh ment indicated that the district at torney would not oppose action to have the prisoner adjudged insane MT. Whitman said that while the best course might be to have Mahoney confined in an asylum, the mayor and MT. Polk must be consulted before a final decision is reached
 Guard for Mayor.
 The attempted assassinatio1 by Ma honey caused Police Cont 4issionet Arthur Woods today to a8sign secret service squad of eight men un- der command of police captain to guard Mayor Mitchell
 Mayor Mitchell after seeing that Mir. Polk was made as comfortable az possible at the New York hos pital returned to his office and fin ished the day there as customary. Last night he attended dinner at the New York Press club, where he told the members of that organization that he had expected some such hap pening as the act of Mahoney, but that '1t does seem unfair that any one else should have to take the con- sequences of the hazard that prop- erly belongs to me"
 The mayor went on to saf that he did not believe the attackk on him was due to the concerted dion of group of agitators. "wherf such a thing as that happens he said, "it is the product of the disordered brain of some unfortunate individual the man who does not think straight who warps the facts that he partly gathers from the daily press in recording the action ofl govern ment.''
 Prisoner Is Sorry.
 To Police Captain Thoma1 Tunney, the mayors would-be assassik said he called at the City hall to rehonstrate with Mayor Mitchell and d been 'insulted" there. II then dHcided to kill him. he said. T went sdown to the City hall Wednesday with the in- tention of killing him then, but cooled off Today (Friday) I went down there again with the Intention of finishing the job" The fprisonef then told of waiting from TO o'clock until the mayor and his party started to enter their automobile shottly after 1 o'clock and how he stodQ barely five feet from the object of h fancied hatred when he fired. He Expressed regret that he had attempted to take Mayor Mitchers life and was par-