The Sentinel=record., 1914-04-18

The prisoners answer was inco. herent and to the effect that he had nothing to say. Covering before his questioners, he seemed hardy tc know what he had done. He wore a ragged fringe of white beard and was clad in an ill-ftting suit While the police were trying to learn the man name, which he consistently refused to give, a jostling crowd packed the plaza.
 Where's the assassin? Lynch him." some of them cried
 lt was thought at the time that the corporation counsel had lost most of his lower teeth and that the iawbont had been pierced in two places by the bullet, but later report from the hospital said only one tooth has been knocked out and that unless blood poisoning set in the wound would not prove serious.
 The prisoner underwent a search. ing examination at police headquar ters before Police Commissioner Woods, District Attorney Whitman and others. As he was led out of the traffic police station into the am. bulance that took him to police head. quarters the crowd lunged toward him, menacing and loud-voiced but the police drove them back.
 The automobile which waited on Park Row was to take the mayors party to lunch. In thirty seconds the car would have started. At that mo. ment Maholey who had been stand. ing on the fringe of crowd fifty yards away attending a noon meeting of the unemployed and the Industrial Workers of the World. saw that Mayor Mitchell was within few feet of him. As the mayor took his seat Mahoney whipped a revolver from his coat pocket and shot.
 According to his own story Mahoney had tried to see the mayor last Mon day. but had not been able to get al interview. His idea, he said, was to crtcise Mayor Mitchell for the lex travagant expenditures" of his ad. ministratlon and incidentally to ask for a job.
 His repulse embittered him, and when ne came back Wednesday it was with the intention of killing the mayor. He thought better of his pur. pose on this occasion, however, and deferred the attempt Today. warmed with glass of whlskey which he said he had just had at Park Row sa- loon, he determined to act.
 In the several examinations given Mahoney today he appeared to be a man of weak mind.
 Two letters found in his pockets for the most part were uninteIligible but 1t was evident that the writer was trying to voice protest against the police bills recently urged by Mayor Mitchell at Albany and other activities.
 In these letters Mahoaey appeared to be agitated by the attempt of George w. Goethals to take the police commissionershlp.
 He knows less about police work as much as a boy of 12 or 14-," was one of the disjointed statements in the letters referring to Colonel Goethals, and continuing:
 Also knows lots of engineering as l2 or 14year-old boy" The letter thpn Iauuphad into n gaparaI at4an1, on Colonel Goethals.
 Among other things Mahoney told the police he was born in Ireland: that one time he had been worth more than $100,000, and that he had gone heavily into real estate specua- ton. He had spent number of years in Pittsburg, he added, and had lived in New Orleans. For the last ten years he had lived in New York. Once he said he was sorry he at tempted to shoot the mapor.
 Mahoney will be arraigned tomor. row.
 "The attack on the mayor and the incidental shooting of Corporation Counsel Polk shows the danger to which public officials are subjected" said District Attorney Whitman to- night. The mayor was properly guarded and will be even more so in the future, but no matter what safe guards surround public official he be protected against cranks and OthnrG at oil fimpg v