Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1900-02-10
GOEBEL SUCCUMBEO
SATURDAY EVENING
Made Gallant Fight Against Death,
But Is Compelled to Yield
at Last.
TURNS TO RELIGION AT The LAST
He Scnds for Minister Shortly BE.
fore Death AMI Expresses
Belief In the Teachings
OF Christianity.

died at exactly 6;i4 o'clock Saturday
night. Arthur Goebel Of Cincinnati
and Mrs. Braunaker of Ohio, mar
ried sister, both Of whom have been
constant attendants at the dying
mans bedside. were alone with him
when the end came. They had pre-
viously requested DR.. Hume TO leave
them alone with their unconscious
brother The doctor withdrew, and
shortly after, while kneeling at the
bedside of their brother, the wounded
man gave gasp and was gone.
Stricken with sorrow and anguish,
the brother and sister did not move
from their positions. They remained
I'm the same way with the door closed
until 1880 p. m, when their brother,
Justus Goebel, who had just returned
from Arizona, arrived. lie entered
the room and the door was closed "A
few minutes.
Soon after DR.. Hume was summon
ed, and to him Arthur Goebel an
nounced that Mr.. Goebel had died at
6:44 p. IN. At 1887 notice OF Mr.. Goe-
bells death was passed through the
hotel corridors.
Mr. GoebeIs condition Friday night
and well into the morning was consid-
cred so much improved that for the
first since he was shot down In front
Of the state house hopes were enter
tanned Of his ultimate recovery. His
hiccoughs and nausea, with both Of
which he has been troubled more or
less from the first, had almost entire
ly disappeared, and he rested well up
to midnight. But after that hour he
awoke frequently, and about o'clock
the hiccoughs returned, accompanied
by some nausea This trouble, how
ever, soon yielded TO treatment, the
patient again doing until 6 o'clock,
when he grew restless. At his request
former Congressman Hcndrick was
called, and Mr.. Goebel asked for some
of his legal advisers with whom he
wished to confer. From that time
until 10 o'clock Mr.. Goebel rested
fairly well, doing at times, but short.
ly after 10 o'clock he suddenly grew
worse. The hiccoughs and nausea re-
turned with increased violence, and
his pulse ran up alarmingly. Drs. Me-
Cormack and Hume were hastily sum
moned, and hypodermic injections Of
whisky and strychnine, and after
wards OF morphine, were given him.
At Mr.. Goebel's request Chaplain l..
G.. Wallace, OF the Kentucky peniten-
tiary. an intimate friend, was sent
for, and the two had short conver-
sation.
Acknowledges Christianity.
Lew" said Mr.. Goebel, II wish TO
hnt Y 10 nt
hold myself in open violence 10 the
word Of God"
The sufferer for the first time in
his long. weary struggle for life had
apparently lost his indomitable cour-
age, and soon relapsed into a condi-
tion of semi-consciousness.
About o'clock he aroused himself
again, and calling DR.. Mccormack to
his side, said Doctor, am | going to
get well? | want to know the truth,
for / have several things 10 attend
to-"
"Mr. Goebcl, you have but few
hours to i've" replied DR.. McCor-
mack. Mr.. Goebel was silent for a
moment, then calling his brother, Ar
thur Goebel, to his side, he asked
that the physicians and nurses retire.
Then for twenty minutes the dying
man was left with his brother and
sister.
Soon after this he again fell into
a stupor, and at 2 o'clock his condi.
ton was considered so alarming that
as a last resort oxygen was given in
the endeavor 10 keep him alive, If
possible, until the arrival Of his
brother, Justice Goebel.
This treatment resulted in an i'm
provement, but the rally was so slight
and slow that it was apparent that
the end was not far off, and Rev. DR..
Taliaferro, of the Methodist church
of Frankfort, was sent for. He came
at once, and after an earnest prayer
he read a few selected verses from
the epistle to st. James, but the dying
man was apparently unconscious of
what was transpiring about him.
Shortly after o'clock the dying man
was again given oxygen, and again a
slight rally resulted, but il was only
temporary. At 6:l0 p. m, DR.. Hume
left the dying mans bedside, and the
afflicted brother and sister turned to
DR.. Mccormack and requested that
they be left entirely alone with their
brother, who was fast sinking.
AS the doctors withdrew the grief.
stricken brother and sister knelt at
his bedside, praying that the life
might he spared until their brother
Justice should arrive. Their prayers
were in vain. Even as they watched
the pulsations became slower and
slower, gradually but steadily grow
ing weaker, and with a slight quiver
of the eyelids, one breath deeper than
the rest, pause, gasp, and the
life that had been battling so valiant
ly against the assassin's bullet since
last Tuesday morning, fiickered out.
At 1920 the train bearing Justice
Goebel pulled into the station. To
meet him were Trey Woodson, Sam