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Show wj. gam sit NEW YORK'S CHIEF EXECUTIVE PERHAPS FATALLY WOUND-ED WOUND-ED BY DISCHARGED EMPLOYEE EM-PLOYEE OF THE MUNICIPAL MUNI-CIPAL SERVICE. Victim Bears Up Well and Has a Chance for Recovery, According to the Doctors' Reports. Now York. William J. Gaynor mayor of New York City, was shot In tho head and seriously wounded Tuesday as he stood on tho promenade prome-nade deck of tho steamer Kaiser Wll-helm Wll-helm der Grosse, by James D. Gallagher, Galla-gher, discharged city employee. Gallagher Gal-lagher was overpowered and arrested. The shot was fired at. 9:45 o'clock Tuesday morning, fifteen minutes before be-fore tho Kaiser Wllhelra der Grosso was duo to leavo her pier at Hobokcn, N. J., and the mayor was receiving God speed from a group of frlonds preparatory to a vacation trip to Europe. 1 WILLIAM J. GAYNOR. While tho mayor and a party of friends woro posing for a photograj. 1, Gallaghor, unnoticed, pushed his way almost to the mayor's sldQ and llrod point blank nt his head. Tho bullet struck him behind tho right ear and ranged downward, Inflicting In-flicting a dangerous, though nut noc-essarlly noc-essarlly fatal, wound. And unless blood poison, develops, surgeons aro. hopeful of tho mayor's recovery, although al-though at his ago 59 years such a wound Is grave. |