The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-04-18
IDS SEXES GUN; PREVENTS SECOND SHOT h1AF1ONEY

ton Counsel.
''1s this the man who shot your" In
spector Dillon asked Mr.. Polk. upon
leading Mahoney into the lieutenant
room of the City Hall basement. where
the Corporation Counsel was trying to
atanch with his handkerchief the flow
Of blood from his mouth, while waiting
for an ambulance surgeon.
II think It u.s." answered Mr.. Polk.
ola Man Mute for Hours.
"why did you want to shoot the
Mayor" snapped Dillon, as he swung
around again.
Mahoney merely made gesture with
his hands. From that time until almost
shutdown the old man steadily refused to
tell his name or anything about himself
to the Police Commissioner, to District
Attorney Whitman and others. but
finally gave his name and address shortly
before 6 o'clock =. NJ. to acting Capt.
Thomas Tunney at Police Headquarters.
Among other things found in the old
tiers to Mayor Mitchell. one OF them
about 1000 words in length From
these letters and from his later state
ments II was learned that the Mayors
police appointments, Mahoney's imag-
mary grievances against Col. George
Goethals and what he Gained were
"extravagances" OF the Mitchell admin
istration had caused the old man TO
Try to kill the Mayor.
And the Mayor. an Irish Catholic"
Mahoney complained last night to Capt.
Tunney. wasn't appointing enough
Irish Catholics to city jobs"
Hears Agitators Ms lie waits.
Mahoney was born on March II, 1912,
sixteen miles outside Of Cork and has
been in America about sixty years. He
Is q small. gray haired man with an
exceptionally prominent nose, short
white mustache and white beard. He
wore an old gray suit. darned at the
knee. and with Pittsburg tailors mark
inside.
His wife and four children. he said.
now live at Newport. Ky, which was
once his own home. For the last ten
years he has lived chiefly in New York.
For almost three hours yesterday he
had been hanging around the City Hall
neighborhood. during which time he had
had at least one glass Of whlskey and
n glass Of beer the rest of the time
being given largely to listening to the
oratory OF socialistic tendency that Is
always on tap at the foot OF the Frank
lin statue.
The Socialist and I. w. w. orators
had Interested him around the statue
on other days besides yesterday fore
noon. Capt. Tunney asked the old man
last night whether or not their speeches
had influenced him to shoot.
We'll" he said. the speeches I heard
may have had something to do with
what l did to-day"
Last Monday, he said. he went to the
city Hall to see the Mayor and when
told that he could not see Mr.. Mitchell
without a ticket the refusal made him
nearly Grassy"
"Softened" on Wednesday, lie Says.
Again on Wednesday he went to the
City Hall and this time. he told the
police and Mr.. Whitman. he carried a
revolver which he bought In Jersey City
a month ago,
II saw the Mayor and Mr. Bruere
come out at noon" said Mahoney. but
it,ut ahal
and l didn't shoot him them
Within a few minutes after Mahoney
fired the shots yesterday City Hall plaza
and adjoining streets were packed with
thousands. Almost Immediately, too.
Borough President Marks. President
George McAneny OF the Board OF Alder
men. Comptroller Prendergast. Commits
sioners Adamson. Kingsbury. r, A. c.
Smith and. in fact, the Mayors official
family were with their chief and Mr..
Polk.
Mayor Mitchell. upon seeing that Mr..
Folks immediate wants had been at
tended to in the police lieutenants room.
went to the telephone beside Lieut. Wallis
desk and called up Mr. Folks father.
DR.. William Macklenbeeg Polk. who Is
dean Of the Cornell Medical School. and
Mrs Mitchell TO assure them that MIR.
Folks wounds Were not dangerous and
that he himself was unnjured.
I'm have Frank come to the telephone
himself" Mayor Mitchell told Dr. Polk
over the phone, ito prove to you that
he's all right"
Ambulance Surgeon Dugdale OF the
Hudson street hospital. who had been
summoned almost Immediately after the
shot was fired at 30 l.. NJ. already had
pressed through the Jam of the Mayors
friends and others collecting in the sta
ton house and had cleaned and bandaged
Mr., Folks wounds
Folk Rcbukes Man who shot Him.
The Corporation Counsel stepped from
the lieutenants' room out to the telephone
TO talk 10 his father. The bandases or
his chin made speaking somewhat difficul,
for him. but he was able TO tell his father
that there was no cause for worry.
"I'm sorry that an old man like YOU,
Mr., Polk said 10 o'd Mahoney. should
want 10 Kill the Mayor of New York"
Mahoney shufrled away without answer
ing
When the old man was taken to a rear
room Inspector Faurot. Inspector Dillon
the Police Commiss oner and others tried
10 learn his name and address.
The police took off his collar in tn,
hope OF finding laundry marks on tn,
inside Of the collar written In indelblt
INK In shaky hand was David Rose
r." The name "Dav,d Rose was also or
his underwear, This was thought to be-
his name, therefore. until he told Capt
Tunney later that IL was Michael f. Ma