Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 218, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 September 1913 — MAYOR GAYNOR OF NEW YORK DEAD [ARTICLE]

MAYOR GAYNOR OF NEW YORK DEAD

Succumbed to Sudden Attack of Heart Disease While on Board Ship in the Atlantic. Mayor James W. Gaynor, of New York City, died suddenly Wednesday afternoon ota board the steamship Baltic, on which he had taken passage several days before. He had been in poor health lately and when <a committee waited upon him to inform him of his nomination as an independent candidate he was unable to address them. His voyage was in the hope that the salt air might benefit his health. He expected to be absent only three weeks. The mayor’s death is supposed to have been due to the bullet injury he received about three years ago when Jams J. Gallagher tried to assassinate him. The bullet lodged in the mayor’s neck and had recently been causing him much trouble. He had been mayor of New York for almost four years and had never had a vacation. His son accompanied him on the voyage and was with him when death came. The information was sent to New York by wireless. The body will be returned to New York for burial.