Show VJ M J SHOT NEW YORKS CHIEF EXECUTIVE PERHAPS FATALLY WOUND ED BY discharged EM OF THE MUNICIPAL SERVICE victim bears up well and has a chance for recovery according to the doctors reports new york william Will iain J gaynor mayor of new york city wa was S shot in the head and seriously funded tuesday as lie he stood on the promenade deck of the steamer balsor withelm der grosse by james D gallagher discharged city employee gallagher was overpowered and arrested the shot was llred fired at 9 45 morning fifteen minutes before b ore the kaiser wilhelm Wll helia der grosse was ivas due to leave her pier at Ilo boken N J and the mayor was receiving god bod speed from a group of friends friend preparatory to a vacation trip to t europe AM W gg V K I 1 I 1 4 i ril g 1 3 fal 4 i k ai 14 A J 6 w N WILLIAM J GAYNOR while the mayor and a party of friends were posing for or a photograph I 1 gallagher unnoticed pushed his way almost to the mayors side aide and fired point blink blank tit at hta his head the bullet struck him behind the right ear an and ranged downward inflicting a dangerous though not necessarily essa rily fatal wound and unless blood polson develops arg surgeons a are r hopeful of the mayors roger recovery although at ills his age 59 years such a 1 wound la Is grave ve |