Died 10 April 1925 | ||
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Born March 17, 1842 ( 1842-03-17 ) York, Ireland Criminal charge Assassination attempt of Mayor John Purroy Mitchel Criminal status Incarcerated and died in prison | ||
Michael P. Mahoney (March 17, 1842 – April 10, 1925) attempted to assassinate Mayor John Purroy Mitchel of New York City on April 17, 1914.
Biography
He was born March 17, 1842 in York, Ireland. He migrated to the United States in 1865, at the age of 23. He lived in Cincinnati, Ohio and by 1914 had migrated to New York City.
At 1:30 pm on April 17, 1914 the 71 year old Mahoney fired his gun at Mitchel as he was getting in his car to go to lunch. The bullet ricocheted off a pedestrian and hit Frank Lyon Polk, New York City's corporation counsel in the chin.
Mitchel had been armed with a handgun. His predecessor, Mayor William Jay Gaynor, had been shot by a disgruntled former city employee in 1910.
In 1914, Mahoney was incarcerated in the State Hospital for the Criminally Insane at Matteawan in New York.