William H. Edwards helped to rescue William J. Gaynor from assault, Hoboken, New Jersey, August 9, 1910. Edwards, 33, commissioner of street cleaning, was standing on the promenade deck of a ship at the side of Gaynor, mayor of New York, when the mayor was shot in the head at close range. Edwards threw himself upon the assailant, who was still facing the group about the mayor, with upraised pistol, and bore him to the deck upon his back. As Edwards fell on top of him, the pistol was discharged again, the bullet grazing Edwards’s left forearm on the underside. Others hurried to pinion the man’s arms, but before they accomplished it, the pistol was discharged a third time. Edwards arrested the assailant. The mayor and Edwards recovered from their wounds. 5748-443
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