The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1900-02-05
SCENES AT THE DEATHBED.
Additional Details of the Last Hours
of William f. 0oebel.

Frankfort, Ky., Feb. 4.-The
bullet fred by an unknown assas-
sin last Tuesday ended TIE life of
William Goebel at Gas last even
ing. The only persons present at
the deathbed were Mr.. Guebel' 5
sister, Mrs. Braunacker, and his
brother, Arthur Goebel of Cincin-
natl, who have been in constant
attendance at Mr.. GOebel'S bedside
and DR.. Mccormack. Justus Goe-
bel, another brother who has been
hurrylng from Arizona as fast as
steam would carry him, in a vain
hope of reaching his dying brother
in time for some token of recog-
milton arrived forty minutes to late.
Oxygen was frequently admins
tered the dying man during the
afternoon in an effort to keep him
alive until his brothers arrival,
but in vain, for, by the cruel irony
of fate, the train on which Justus
GOebel was travelling to Frankfort
was delayed several hours from
various causes and when Mr.. Goe
bel finally reached here it was only
70 1
Among bitter partisans of both
parties deep grief is manifested,
and already a movement has been
started to erect a fitting monument
for Mr.. Goebel's memory on the
spot in the state house grounds
where he was shot.
No arrangements have yet been
made for the funeral. Plunged in
grief and locked in the death
chamber of their brother, Arthur
and Justus Goebel and Mrs. Brau-
hacker have given out no intima-
ton Of their wishes, and probably
no definite arrangements will be
made until tomorrow. 1t is under
stood that request will be made
on behalf of the citizens of Frank
fort that Mr.. GOebel's last resting
place be in the cemetery here,
where lie buried Daniel Boone and
President Andrew johnson.
At 6:1O p. m. DR.. Hume left the
dying mans bedside and reported
to the throngs of anxious watchers
in the corridors of the hotel that
death was but a matter of a few
moments time. The oxygen treat
ment was used constantly, in a
desperate effort to keep Mr.. Goebel
alive until Justus Goebel arrival
but no effort was made to arouse
the unconscious man.
As DR.. Hume departed from the
room the afflicted brother and
sister turned to DR.. Mccormack
and requested that they be left
entirely alone with their brother,
who was fast sinking and to both
physicians apparently in articult
mOrtimis. The physicians silently
withdrew, closed the door softly
behind them.
The grief-stricken brother and
sister knelt at the bedside, their
eyes fastened upon the half open
eyelids of the UNCONSCIOUS man.
He could give no sign of further
recognition, and yet he was not
absolutely unconscious. Scarcely
breathing themselves, the brother
and sister bent over the deathbed
listening to the short, sharp gasp:
of death and praying that the lif,
might be spared until their brother
Justus, from Arizona, could arrive
Their prayers were in vain. Ever
as they watched the pulsations be
came slower and slower, gradually
but steadily growing weaker, and
with a slight quiver of the evelids
one breath deeper than the rest. ;
pause. a gasp, and the life that haC
been battling so valiantly agains
the assassin'S bullet since las
Tuesday morning, fiickered ont
Death had claimed its victim
and the brother and sister, bowe,
by sorrow whose pangs were inten
sified by the knowledge that, a few
miles away hurrying to them, wa
their brother JustuS, who woul,
arrive too late, sat down upon tn
deathbed alone with their dead
Not a sound emanated from tn
. rOOro tO anDriSa tho aDvinuS watch