The evening world. Newspaper, April 17, 1914, Page 2

gilli a) if THE EVENING WORLD, abe Gillespie turned and watched him for a moment, then forgot him i” a man who has been hanging around the City Hall for several In Rose’s pookets were found two abusive letters, one ad- % dressed to Mayor Mitchel, the other to the Mayor of Pittsburgh. The letter to Mayor Mitchel read: Mayor Mitchel: We want to inform you a little bit in regard to law for magistrate clerks You have stated file on February 20 last. Now you say on the 20th of February last that you there ignore it. How is it you \ ¢elleo many lies for the short time you have been in office. seoret bills passed in Albany for Goethals. You commissioner He knows less about much as a boy of twelve or fourteen Also 19 of the Panama canal as tweive boy. If some of us had a boy of that as muoh as Goethals did about his head off. how a few of you make such a fuss for a and murderer as he is he and a few Rughs done 2 er that you and Wilson don’t cut the Brute in 3 pieces and give each piece a commsson for Police, Ingineer and Governor for Panama then he and his friend would have a good show to graft more he stated in the newspapers in November 1912 that he would have the canal compleid in January 1914 is it complete it don’t look that way we when the grafter wants 34,000,000 doliars he don’t know how he is getting so many agree to this because he is not worthy to told the truth once in his life Hamilton right Givers we know him for many years not any @eneral public if Goethals was non Mason he hold that” Could be build for half the money if the man that understand his business we all know this man Goethals know the first thing about it but he was Mason and had Blowing Wind to the public and he was blow- to the papers the pubric did not know anything the money so there the way the taxpayer's money goes so Goethals got in with andrew hamilton now Goethals & friend of hamilton he works on canal same as us know this Goethals sent out to see how much he could make he made a pile and then got caught now he can stand trial he and Goethals got the money put away here is other one of your appointments street r have not looked at our streets since February 13th last he had said it would be H 33 aeny yyas eee those are the kind of man you like to have cround you you ere pity guy for a mayor anyhow you want Perkins as Commissioner this is other guy if one of us was in your Place we would be sure to resign here ts other this Deves woman could you not get a man for this position instead cf this Daves woman * * * every. know that you have no right to appoint her except a few @ those 1000 men you got around you they know that it will be a Benefit to them hereafter in 2 ways and yu know this now those Secret Bills you got in Albany it’s nothing but a @xpenss to the taxpayer and you agree to all this to save the expenses instead you ar: adding to it by creating new offices Bow we would like for you to stop this and not to be advice by the gang that you'have arourd you now we want you to stop the dirty work. ’ No signature. The shorter tetter was addressed to “The Mayor of Pittsburgh,” be-| roughly handled by the crowd. There were powder marks on his f inclosed in a plain but dirty envelope. V bimselt as It was dated April 14, and began: " “Mayor Armstong (the “r” was omitted) ; “You have done your part, you —— —— ——, We do @ur part soon, and we will see what it will be!” The letter was unsigned. Aa ‘Rose passed him, crossing the car tracks on Park went. : he heard the shot and saw Rose stagger. dipping of March 20 from a newspaper was also found in his Ut related the Mayor's attempt to urge the passage of the Goethals | 11, police bills st Albany. 14 ., Romp came toward the Mayor's car from an anarchist meeting that |***rchinsiy. The prisoner dropped his eyes. ‘holed been going on in the shadow of the Franklin Statue, according to fie R. Gillespie of Staten Island. Gillespie said that he noticed the Row mutter- FRIDAY, APRIL 17, 1914. MAN WHO FIRED SHOT HEARD ANARCHIST ORATOR IN He sat on the outer side of the seat, toward City Hall Park. “| walked around the front of the car to get in the seat alongside the chauffeur. 1 had just placed my foot on the step when 1 saw an old man approaching—a wild looking man with a straggling short gray beard. | He was coming from the car tracks along Park Row and he had a revolver pointed at the Mayor. ‘y “Before I could say anything or do anything the shot was fired. The old man was almost alongside the car. 1 made one jump and grabbed him. “From his appearance | imagined he would be easy to handle, but he wasn't. He fought with the strength and agility of a man half his years. “I succeeded in getting him down and pinning the pistol to the ground with my left hand. By that time Neun and several police officers had come to my assistance and we took the gun away from the assassin. | “The Mayor, Mr. Polk—whose wound was bleeding profusely—and | mr. Mullan had left the car. They grouped around Rose. | CROWD CLOSES IN THE ASSASSIN. | “The crowd closed in and there were many shouts that held a note | of anger. 1 believe that had Rose not been adequately protected he | would have been roughly dealt with. | “Mayor Mitchel, Mr. Polk and Commissioner Mullan stuck close to Rose while we were getting him to the police station. He did not | cease fighting and resisting until we got him inside. | As Rose was taken into the station Lieut. Kennel, who guards the door leading to Mayor Mitchel's office, recognized the would-be “I have turned that fellow away from City Hall half a dozen | during past few months,” said Kennel. “I always regarded him as a| | ‘nut’ and would not let him get within fifty feet of the Mayor's inner | room. “The old fellow would insist until 1 was compelled to take him gently by the arm and lead him from the bullding. “But I will come again,” he would invariably say and go away much disappointed. The report that the assassin was an I. W. W. adherent was denied indignantly at the I. W. W. headquarters, Jay and West streets. The shooting had not been heard of there until.a reporter brought the news, “If be was anything, he was an anarchist,” was the positive declara- tion of the I. W. W. folk. The meeting held around the Franklin statue, in Park Row, just before the shooting was addressed by an orator of the Ferrer School, the anarch- {st school where Emma Goldman, Alexander Berkman, Lincoln Steffens and the exponents of the old and new anarchy lecture and teach. Apparently the would-be assassin came directly from this méeting, which ‘was still in progress, to the Mayor's automobile. SALOSHIN SAW HIM SHOOT. | Joseph Saloshin of No, 183 East Ninety-third street, an interpreter jin the Second Municipal Court, was one of the eye-witnesses to the attempt on the Mayor's life. He not only saw the assassin fire but ran after bim and was reaching for him when Commissioner Woods and Neun jumped on the man and held him fast. “I was killing time in the park,” said Saloahin, “when I saw the Mayor come out of the City Hall. I followed out of pure curiosity. Com- missioner Mullan and Mr. Polk got in the machine at the Park Row side and then I saw a little bearded man run across Park Row, pull out a gun and without a word shoot at the Mayor. He turned and ran, and I ran after him as the Police Commissioner and the chauffeur jumped from the machine. “The assassin did his best to get away. I was stunned by the sudden- ness of the attack, but bad sense enough to help get him. Police Commissioner Woods came out from the room in which Rose was being examined and said that he thought the would-be assassin was undoubtedly Insane. “He talks incoherently,” said Mr. Woods, “and nothing which he says indicates any real or fancied ground of grievance against Mayor Mitchel or Mr. Polk. “While I was in there he repeated several times that he lived in Man- hattan and referred in a complaining way of the talk of the appointment of Col. Goethals, the appointment of Commissioner McKay, the gossip about the possible appointment of George W. Perkins and my own appointment. It was impossible to tell which he favored and which he did not like.” Commissioner Woods was asked if he were tempted to use his revolver when he saw the shot fired. “No, for two reasons,” he answered. “First, 1 do not carry a revolver. Second, in a case like that I would not peed one; my hands were sufficient.” Neum and several policemen dragged the assassin into the station of Trafic Squad A, beneath the City Hall, where they encountered Inspector Dillon rushing out, alarmed by the report of the shot. He led the man into his private office. The prisoner was pale end shaking like a leaf ip a breeze, He ap- peared to be about fifty-five years old and was bent and gray. His clothing was shabby. Blood flowed from his neck and hands, where he had been and beard, where one of his shots had almost struck home on himself as Neum grabbed bis hand. “What's your name?” demanded Dillon whea he had the man in his office. “I refuse to talk,” replied the man sullenty. Just then Mayor Mitchel ran into the station and hurried into Dillon's Toom. “Let me have a look at that man,” he called as he entered. “I'think he is a man who has called to see you here before,” replied pector Dillon. “I think he has attended Aldermanic meetings.” “I don't fecall his face,” declared the Mayor, whe gased at the man “Wasn't it His Honor, the Mayor, standing here, whom you wanted to kill?’ suddenly demanded Dilton, and the Mayor stood close in front of the prisoner as they waited for @ reply. " “T refuse to say,” was all that the man answered. “Whom did you wast to bill, then?” continued Dillon. “I refuse to reply.” | AB unsigned letter, unaddressed as well, had been found in the man's pocket together with two newspaper clippings, one from The ‘The attempt on the life of the Mayor was witnessed by hundreds of | world of March 20 telling of the Mayor's police bills and carrying a Neun, the chauffeur of the Mayor's car. bile, The crowd surged around the assassin, sprang out and gathered around Rose. from ail directions and dashed into the crowd. ‘Station in the City Hall basement. {missioners Woods and Mullan also entered the police station, The straightest story of the attempt to assassinate the Mayor comes ‘| from Polke Commissioner Woods, who was right on top of the assassin ‘There were thousands in the mob around the little group protecting * Rose when the assassin was pushed down the steps to the Traflic Squad Mayor Mitchel, Mr. Polk and Com- HV before the echo of the shot had died away, i Commissioner Woods said: ‘‘It was a little after 4 o'clock when the i Mayor, Mr, Polk, Tax Commissioner Mullan and myself left the City Hall to go to luncheon. We walked across the plaza to Park Row, where the Mayor's car was sianding. salu “People passing along spoke to. the Mayor and he returned their tes. “On reaching the car Mr. Mullan was the first to enter. The Mayor and Mr. Polk ‘and Tax Commissioner George V. Mullan, who had entered the automo- Policemen came running who had either assembled around the automobile In which he| picture of Col. Goethals, Mayor Mitchel was examining these as Dillon 4] «was about to ride uptown for luncheon or were passing along Park Row ‘for through City Hall Park. Rose was ready to fire a second shot when he was seized by Police Commissioner Woods and Detective George | gate questioned his prisoner and presently he handed them back to the inspector, remarking: “You better keep these, Mr. Inspector, You may want to investi- them somewhat, though from my cursory examination I should say the letter was like the usual epistie from an ordinary crank.” The prisoner refused absolutely to tell his name, though he sald that he had been out of work for some time and did not live in New York. Dillon shut him up in his room. Inspector Faurot, summoned from Police Headquarters, hurried in as Dillon was questioning the man, and when he learned that he had refused to tell his name he jerked his collar from his neck. On it was the name David J, Rose and the laundry mark "B 33." He atill persisted, however, in refusing to give his address and woulg not admit that Rose was his Dame. After Mr, Polk's wound had been temporarily dressed by an ambu- ‘lance surgeon in the City Hall police station Rose was taken into the room where Polk was sitting on a chair. Rose looked at him stolidly. “Is the man you wanted to shoot?” asked Inspector Dillon. Rose refused to reply. He was then told that Mr. Polk was not the Mayor. “Who is he?” asked Rose. “This is Corporation Counsel Frank L. Polk that you shot,” said a policeman. HIS VICTIM GENTLY CHIDES HIM. Rose turned away. . Mr, Polk sald: “It is too bed an okt man like you had such thing in He sat in ” the tonneau on the outer side, toward the Pulitzer Building. Mr, Polk |” tyes followed him and sgt beside him, and the Mayor was the last to get in. Polk then asked keg 4 ‘The policemen leg Roac hack into the squad reom of the station. Mr. that bie father be calleé at a restaurant (o Thirty-fret { es | | \Man Who Fired at the Mayor (Speciaily Photographed by an Evening World Photographer.) © street. The elder Polk was found there at luncheon and as he came to the telephone Mayor Mitchel talked from the City Hall end. “Mr. Polk,” said the Mayor, “Frank has been shot, but his injury is by no means serious. To prove it 1 am going to have him step here and talk to you.” WOUND NOT AS BAD AS FEARED. Mr. Polk then went to the hospital, where an examination by Dr. J. A. Hartwell of No, 27 East Sixty-third street, showed that his jaw was not broken as had been thought. The physician said: “Mr. Polk is not serlously injured and we do not anticipate any com- plication. He suffered merely a skin wound on the surface of the jaw and the destruction of a tooth. The bullet is not lodged in the jaw, but went directly through the flesh of the lower lip.” Dr. Hartwell stayed with Mr. Polk from the moment he reached the hos- pital at 2.05 o'clock until 3.05 o'clock, when he lett thy hospital, Mayor Mitchel, Fire Commissioner Adamson, Dock Commissioner Smith and Comptroller Prendergast went to the hospital with Mr. Polk and his father, Dr. William M. Polk, Dean of the Cornell Medical School, ar- rived soon afterward. He stayed only a short time, assuring himself that his son was not bady hurt, and went to notify his son's wife, BULDEW'S POLK’S APPOINTMENT WAS ONE OF FIRST MADE BY THE MAYOR Frank L. Polk's appointment as me Corporation Counsel was one of the | = first announced by Mayor Mitchel! after his election last fa He had! fz been, previous to psident of the Municipal Civ rvice Commis- sion and a member of the Board of | Education, | He in one of the coterie of men still | comparatively young whom the} young Mayor has chosen to uid hi | LUNCHEON {administration. Mr. Polk is forty- | DINNER--SUPPER | three years old. He was born in | |¥ork City and educated at Groton, Mustard Hchool and Yale, He attended the | Columbia Law School and for a time | practised law several clubs and identified with tho | old Knickerbocker society of New York. He married Mias Elizabeth 8, Potter. He ts a member of | ASABE Hick and Cold Monts Fenty é. Y TO USE 5 At Delicatessen and Grocery ——_—— fate Breakers MIDDLETOWN, ing a large sum of money scattered over the floor, yesaman early to-day | dynamited the safe in the station of | the Ontario and Western Railroad Mast Branch and enca) ‘The away with only @ sm Deliciwus for # | vany prefer it t a fri peor \-~<costs only at yy gut ion of the orice. 47 GROCEMs ON DKLICATESSEMA. fi ‘ t And Wounded Corporation Counsel tl SQUARE ASSASSIN SAYS HE'S SORRY “HE DONT WEAR HIS GLASSES In the colthes ef the assassin who fired at the Mayor little was found to aid the police in learning anything of his life. He had even washed the labels from two bottles of medicine and had scratched the print from 4 {little can of ointment. } In a greasy tobacco pouch were found half a dozen old colns—three ten- Jeent pieces in American money and tnyee Austrian coins. He had also scratched from his spectacle case the name of the optician. He had two pairs of spectacles, neither of which bore the mame of the maker. When a pair of cheap steel spectacles was taken from his vest pocket Rose asked that he be permitted to wear them and Former Inspector Dillon handed the glasses to him. He tried to put them on, but his hand was trembling and they dropped Into his lap. “The trouble was that I didn't wear my glasses,” said the old man. am near-sighted.” “Do you mean that you would not have missed shooting the Mayor?” asked the police officer, “Now you want to get me to talk, don't you,” sald Rose, displaying a keen knowledge of the fact that the detectives were anxious to have him talk. Police Commissioner Woods stepped into the room at this point and followed by several detectives. The Commissioner was asked if he thought that Rose was affiliated with some Anarchistic organization. \ “No, he’s a plain bug,” replied the Commissioner. “Just one of those jletter-writing cranks.” | Rose heard what the Commissioner said. back this comment in anger: “Don't you belleve I am a crank, sir.” | | was ‘He sat up erect aud shot GH CITY OFFICIALS RUSH TOAD ASSASSIN'S VICTIM ‘The report of the shooting spread consternation in all the city depart: | ments. No one knew at first just who had been shot. It was reported ‘that the Mayor had been wounded, that Police Commissioner Woods had been hit and that Mr. Polk had received a bullet. Cornelius Vanderbilt, hearing of the shooting uptown, sped to City Hall in a motor car, “[ heard that the Mayor had been shot and I came to see if there was | anything I could do,” he explained. When he learned that Mr, Polk was the victim and that the wound was | not serious went aw: Dock Commissioner R. 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