The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1900-02-02

Frankfort, Ky, Jan. 31.-William
0oeDel was shot and very seriously IN
Jured Tuesday morning at 11:1O Willie
Inssjng through the state house yard
on AIS way to the capitol building.
Two shots were fired from a rifle,
only one of them taking effect. 1t
struck Mr.. Goebel IN the right side,
cne-third of the dist .nce down from
me arm pit to the hip. The ball
passed entirely through the body,
coming out below the right shoulder
blade. 1t is not thought by the ply
sicians in charge that the wound will
prove fatal, unless complications set
in. John Whitaker, farmer from
Butler county, KY, is under arrest,
charged with having 1red the shots,
but he denies that he had anything to
do with it. Five revolvers were found
upon him when he was taken into GUS
tody.
Mr.. Goebel, in company with Col.
Jack Chinn and Warden Eph Lillard,
of the Frankfort penitentiary, was
walking up the sidewalk leading from
the street to the capitol building, Goe-
bel being on the right of the three.
When the three were two-thirds of the
distance from the street to the capt.
tol shot was fired from the third
story of the building occupied by the
offices of Gov. Taylor, secretary of
state and other leading officials of the
state. The ball struck Mr.. Goebel il
the side and he instantly dropped to
the pavement. Chinn and Lillard in
stantly seized him, Chinn saying as he
did so: Il guess they've got you
Goebel."
YES" replied the wounded man. 81
guess they have got me for sure"
While Chinn was holding the wound
ed man and supporting his head in his
arms, four shots more were fired at
both men, All of them struck close,
making the dust fly from the brick
pavement. Both Chinn and Lillard
stuck to their friend, however, Meth.
er of them moving from his side until
the firing ceased, when Lillard ran for
help. He had not far to go, for there
is always a crowd of loungers around
the gates of the capitol building. A
crowd of men were around Mr.. Goe-
bel in less than minute, and he was
carried to the office of DR.. E. E.
Hume in the basement of the Capitol
.ro,el, about one thousand feet from
the spot where the shooting occurred
DR.. Hume made a superficial exam
ination of the wound, which had, he
declared, penetrated the right lung
and would, in all probability, prove
fatal. Mr.. Goebel was then hastily
taken from the Office of DR.. Hume to
his own room on the second floor OF
the Capitol hotel. Guards were sta.
toned at the foot of every staircase
leading to the second floor, and no
body, not even the guards of the hote
were allowed to pass. A more eN
tended examination made by Dr
Hume and several other physicians
who had been called, resulted in the
announcement that the wound was
not necessarily fa>nl, and that the
wounded man would in all probability
recover. The ball, il was found, hao
inflicted a wound which was some
what of a glancing nature, and hac
not gone through the lung in direct
line as DR.. Hume had thought upor
the first examination. Had the bal
struck the chest one-half inch TO the
right it would have caused certain
death.
The house was in SESSION when the
shooting occurred, and The senate wa!
TO have met in 20 minutes. The cap
itol building was therefore filed witt
members of the legislature, and Il
say that excitement followed is put
\ ting it very mildly. From both halli
men ran wildly down the steps without
hats or coats, and enc member OF I'd
house came out carrying in his han'
a bill on which he had been arguing
when the shooting occurred.
BY the time the members of the leg
islature had reached the lower moor
however, Goebel was on his way u
the Office of DIR. Hume. The member
hastily rushed back to their rooms
adjourned with the mos; unceremon
ious haste and poured down INTO IN
streets again. The news that Doeoe
had been shot spread through Tn
streets with lightning like rapidi',
and in a few minutes crowds Ner
fastening toward the capitol fror
every direction. Down st. Clair stree
which runs directly south from IN
sidewalk leading TO the capitol "po
which Mr.. Goebel was walking az IN
time he was shot. came dense crow