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Show AGED MAN ATTEMPTS TO MURDER MAYOR MITCHELL Fires Into Group of Three Men, Dui let Striking Attorney Sitting by the Mayor's Side. Now York. In nn attempt to takq tho Ufa of Mayor John Purroy Mitchell Mit-chell on Friday, Michael P. Mahoucy, an apparently irresponsible elclorljl man, who later said he wus a blacksmith black-smith out of work, Hrcd into u group of three mon seated In tho mayor's automobile, which stood at the east side of City Hall park. The bullet from his rovolvcr entered tho Jaw of Corporation Counsel Frank L. Polk, who was sitting next to tho mayor In tho tonneau of tho automobile. With blood spurting from IiIb mouth. Mr, Polk was taken Into the city hall and afterward to the Now York hospital, where It was said that tho wound would not provo fatal. Mahoney shot nt tho mayor, ho said, in tho courso of a disjointed statement, state-ment, becnuso ho felt aggrieved at tho city oxocutivo's "extravagant expenditures," expendi-tures," und bocauso no was Incensed nt being turned back from tho door of the mnypr's loom In tho city hall on tHH$CAImis this week when ho ciu-JtTto appty-tofcftroteHoby - Mahoney HredWly one BhOt at tho mnyor nnd his pifty Hoforo ho could flro a second shoj hd wns overcome by Detective Gcorgl Noun |
