New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-04-18
MitcheI'S Peril Recalls Odd
Coincidence of Attack
on Late Mayor.
HIS CAREER BLIGHTED
BY INSANE ASSASSIN
Attempt on Col. RooSevelt'S Life,
in Milwaukee, Was Also Made
by a Demeuted Man,

n Is curious coincidence that Mayor
Mitchell was accompanied by hts Corpora
ton Counsel when the attempt was made
upon his nfe and that Mayor Gsynor,
when Nc was shot. nearly four years ago,
was similarly accompanied by his Cor
porauon Counsel
II was on August 2. 1910. that Mr.. Gay
nor went aboard the steamship Kaiser
Wilhelm der Crosse az Hohoben. intend
ing IN san for Europe With him. 20 say
goodhy. were his son Rufus, the corpora,
ton Counsel. Archibald r. watson ana
the Street Cleaning Commissioner, Will
iam II. Edwards.
As the group stood posing for a photog-
rapher. John J. Gallagher, discharged
employe OF the Dock Department partly
denente6. fred az the Mayor az short
range with a pistol. inhicting serious
wound IN the throat. from which the vic
tim never fully recovered.
A second shot was fired, but went wild,
as the Mayors secretary, Robert Adam
son. struck up the assassin's arm, and
third shot went through Edwards'S sleeve
and soorched his arm as he tackled Gal
iagher and bore him 20 the deck. Gala
cher died in prison in New Jersey two
years afterward.
The Mayor was never the same after
the bullet entered his system. Already
along in years. the effect could not be
shaken or. Never OF a liberal turn OF
mind regarding the ideas and opinions OF
others. he became self-centred and irasci-
bic. His administration. which had start
Cd out with such promise, became the
vortex Of a series OF chickering's and squao-
bles that wellnigh wrecked H.
TammRny Hall threw him down hard
Tor Mccall. the fusion forces nominated
Mitchell and the campaign proceeded with
every indication OF being three-cornered
anair. with Gaynor able 10 defeat the
forces OF good government, but not able
40 pcrpetuate his administration. McCalls
Action seemed assured. with the opposi-
10 Tammany divided, when the
4kTs health ran down and he started
Arope with his son Rufus in search
and restoratives.
70 on the deck Of the Baltic. OF the
lite star Line ne died as ne sat in his
chair near his stateroom on November
20 pust three years and one day from the
urnA Gallaghers bullet bhghted career
that \seeIned destined 20 end. II not in
the PASsident's chair in a vote that would
make Inn the runner-up for that highest
honor the one hundred millions Of the
United states have 10 give.
Another notable attempt at murder IN
which both PARTIES were New Workers
vas the shooting Of ex-President Roose-
- y Totn schrank. OF New York, at
Il Milwaukee. Wis. on the evening Of Cc-
Der a. 1872 Schrank, the breeding son
an insane family. had deserted from
70 German army and come TO this city,
81 here he had been a ne'er-do-wen
he became obsessed. so he said. with
the idea that Colonel Roosevelt was a
dangerous man. who was trying to over
hhrow the principles upon which this re-
bubble was founded Accordingly he fol- /.
lowed him from New York on his cam
|laign tour. and finally at Milwaukee. F.
! hot him.
The wound narrowly escaped being
Deadly. but with marvellous pluck the
Colonel continued the speech which ne
was making when he was shot, and at
its conclusion went to a hospital and had
the wound dressed. A speedy and com
plete recovery followed.
Schrank was seized by the police and
by them protected from the mob which
would have killed him on the spot. He
vas held until after the Presidential cleo
tion and wa examined by ahenists,
who pronounced him insane. He was &C
cordinrly committed 10 an asylum for the
insane in Wisconsin, where he remains.