Mayor Gaynor of New York Shot
Mayor Gaynor of New York Shot.—A disgruntled discharged workman, James D. Gallaher, shot Mayor William Gaynor of New York, the morning of August 9. The mayor was pierced by bullets in the head and back before his assailant could be overpowered. In a little while the mayor would have sailed for Europe, in fact was aboard the steamship Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse when he was shot. His assailant showed neither insanity nor remorse, declaring that the mayor had deprived him of bread and butter because he could not get employment. At the latest news the wounded man was thought to have a chance of recovery. Should he die he will be succeeded by John Purroy Mitchell (Anti-Tammany), who is but thirty-two years of age. The awful deed has shocked the country.