The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1914-04-18
'CRANK ATTEMPTS TO KILL
THE MAYOR OF NEW YORK
FIRES SHOT INTO AUTO AT
mitchell WHICH HITS
ATTORNEY F. G. POLK.
Is Immediately Caught and Dis
armed - Talks in Rambling
Manner-Arraigned To-day.

NEW YORK. April i7.-rn an at.
tempt TO take the life OF Mayor John
Purroy Mitchell to-day, Michael p
Mahoney. an apparently irresponsible
elderly man. who later said he was a
olscksmlth out OF work, fired into a
kfoup OF three men seated in the
mayors automobile. which stood an
ths east side of City Hall park. The
bullet from his revolver entered the
Jaw OF Corporation Counsel Frank 4.
folk. who was sitting next To the
mayor IN the tonneau OF the automo-
pie. and with blood squirting from
his mouth Mr.. Polk was taken into
an ante-chamber in the city hall and
aiterWard TO the New York hospitaI
where IL was said that the wound
would not prove fatal.
Mahoney shot at the mayor. be de.
cared IN the course of a disJoIpted
statement extracted from hts tonight
because ne felt aegrieved at the city
executives "extravagant exnendi
lures. and because he was incensed
at being turned back from the doors
VI the mayors office in the city hall
on TWO occasions this week. when he
came TO apply for a municipal lob.
Mahoney fired only one shot Mt
the mayor and his party. Before he
Souid hre second. he was overcome
Dy Detective George Neun. who. in
M capaclty OF chauffeur. was adjust
mobile. and the revolver was
Mrenched out of Mahoney's hand.
Ihe mayor sat in the middle of the
Dack seat with Mr.. Polk on his riRhf
ana George V. Mullan. the mayors
h,ier ,oi iler law partner. on his left. The
bullet passed so close to Mayor Nit
chel that the left side of his face was
scorched Standing within few
leet OF Mahoney was Police Commits
sloner Arthur II. Woods. who was
waiting for the chauffeur TO get info
SIt S,lS car. intending TO sit beside the
aflNer after the latter was seated.
Reserves Called Out.
TO bystanders the sound OF the "a
NolNer shot and the sight OF the aeed
man who did the shooting sprawled
SaPOn the pavement as he was borne
down by the onslaught of Detective
Neun. seemed almost simultaneons
me sight OF Mayor Mitchell steadyinr
the staggering figure of Mr.. Polk Then
detached Itself from the picture With
lng tnirty seconds the city hall plaza
ana PARK Row were flooded with a
surging crowd and the police reserves
were called out.
As soon as he had seen that Mr.
Polk received medical attention. Nav
or Mltchel went TO the police station
IN the basement OF city hall where
Mahoney had been taken, and ques-
toned him f~e'
Why did you shoot at meg- he
asked mahoney The mayor seemed
as calm as IL nothing had happened
The prisoners answer was incoherent
and 10 the effect that he had nothinr
10 say. Covering before his oues-
loners, he seemed hardly to know
what he had done. He was slim and
gaunt. wore ragged fringe OF white
beard. and was clad In an ill-ftting
suit.
While the police were trying To
learn his name. which he persisteutIy
refused TO give, Mr. Polk was removed
70 the New York hospital BY this
time the plaza was packed with a
yostling crowd. some of whom cried:
Mheres the assassin Lynch him''
IL was thought at tho time that the
corporation counsel had lost most of
MS lower teeth and that the jawbone
had been pierced in two place by the
DuIet, but later report from the
hospital stated that only one tooth
had been Knocked out and that unless
Dloou poisoning set in. the wound
would not prove serious
Searching Examination.
The prisoner was taken TO poiice
headquarters. where he underwent a
searching examination before Police
Commissioner Woods. District Atfor-
ney Whitman and others As he was
led out Of the traffic police efation
into the ambulance that brought him
To police headquarters. the crowd
lunged toward him. menacinR ana
lOud-vOiced. but they were driven
back by the police
The automobile which waited ON
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