Salt Lake Tribune | 1913-08-31 | Page 8 | Bullet of Assassin Proves Troublesome

BULLET OF ASSASSIN PROVES TROUBLESOME TORK, Aug. SO. The bullet wound which Mayor Gaynor sustained Just three years ago this month, when an attempt was mado upon his life, still causes him serious trouble, which has dotalncd him at hlo Long Island home for the last two days. In response to a friend's Inquiry as to his health, tho mayor described his trouble as a "fish hook" in his throat. In one of his characteristic char-acteristic letters he said: "My right lung, pneumogastrlo nerve and stomach havo again takon it into their heads that by combined and vio-lont vio-lont efforts they could succeed in casting cast-ing that 'fish hook out of my throat, which that bullot lodged there. But, as In their formor occasions, after several attempts, they succeeded In casting everything out except the 'fish hook and have completely dono themselves and mo up in the bargain. "These members of my body which try to do these tilings now and again aro Just as foolish as people whom you and I know who want something dono all at onco which can only be dono gradually and little by little. But thoy wont havo It that way. To work they go, to accomplish ac-complish all by violence, while instead of doing it they do muoh harm and mischief mis-chief and exhaust themselvos.'