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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 879, 16 August 1910, Page 2

Ex-Judge Gaynor, Of New York, who was shot by a dismissed municipal employee, last week, is a man of the utmost austerity. After a long career in exposing frauds, particularly Tammany frauds, he suddenly became Tammany’s candidate at the last Mayoral election. This seems hard to explain, but perhaps the fact that the control of municipal government with a yearly budget of 150,000,000 dollars was at stake, and that Tammany wanted to win on any terms may account for a lot, Mr Gaynor won the seat by a pluralty vote of 60,000 over Mr Otto Bannard, the Republican nominee. Mr Gaynor is said to be a man of the utmost austerity. Just before his election to the Mayoralty an American said of him, “ For 14 years Gaynor has been wearing the robes of a Supreme Court justice. It is said that he has so expedited legal proceedings that he tries twice as many cases as any of his associates. He is regarded by many lawyers as harsh and severe upon them, but they admire his legal ability while denouncing his temper. Judge Gaynor says in his own defence: ‘lt isn’t the lawyer I see in Court; it’s the litigant behind him, pale with anxiety and eating up his substance in dragged-out legal expenses. It is for his sake I use all my authority to compel a more rapid determination of cases.’ Judge Gaynor has been outspoken, despite his judicial position, in denouncing corporate abuse and political chicanery. But he has been rigid in his demand that all movements in vindication of law must proceed along lawful lines.” He is 59 years of age, and was a journalist before he graduated in the law.