Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1900-02-07
an Assassin Attempt His Life Near
J EentucIy'S Capitol.
DANGEROUSLY HURT.
Hc Is shot Through and Through, but
III ysciAns Have Some Hope One
Man Arrested, but lie De-
e.. Ries the Deed.

We're unatls to stop the loss of blood.
There is strong robahili'y that
martial law will be d. clGred in Frank
fort today, and that the session of the
legislature ut which ilie Democrats have
determined 10 seat Goebel, will DO
chopped by the military.
Soldiers wrre arriving at intervals all
last night Three hundred men came
from Louisville, a company from Cow
ington and numerous other organiZa-
ton are expected About 600 being al
really here nov.
Frankfort Jan. 3l.--William Goebel
was SHOT and very seriously injured at
l. yesterday morning, while passing
through the state house yard on his way
TO the capitol building. -Four shots were
fired from a rifle, only one OF them tax
ing effect Il struck Mr. Goebel in the
right side, one-third of the distance from
The arm pit TO the hip. The ball passed
entirely his body, coming out below the
right shoulder blade.
1t is not thought by the physicians in
charg, the wound will prove fatal, un-
less complications set in.
John Whitaker. farmer from Butler
county, Kentucky, is under arrest,
charged with having fred 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 Colonel
Jack Chinn aud Warden Eph Lillard OF
the Frankfort penitentiary were walk
ing up the sidewalk leading from tna
street 10 the capitol building, Goebel be-
ing on the right When the three men
We're two-thirds the distance from the
street to the clpitol shot fred from
the third story Of the building The
ball struck Goebel in the side and he
instantly dropped to the pavement
Chinn and I-illard instantly seized him.
r Chinn saying as he ala 50.
Il guess They have got you, Goebel."
YES rep.isd the wounded man, 81
guess they have got me for sure"
While Chinn was holding the wound.
cd man. supporting his head in
his arms four saois more were fred at
the trio All OF them struck close
making tine dust fly from the brick
pavement
Both Chinn and Lillard stuck 10 theiI
friend neither moving from his side
until the firing ceased when LllarL
cried for h4lp He had poJ far to 81
for thers was Away, crowd around
the gates of the capitol building. There
war a crowd Of men AROUND Gosbel in
less than a minute and he was carried
TO the Office of DR.. u. Il Hume in the
has mant of the Capitol hotel.
D.. Hume made superficial exam;.
nation of the womb VII ca he declared
penetrated the right ling and would in
ell PROBABILITY prove fatal, Ctoebel was
then hastily taken from the Office Of Or.
Hume to his own roorL Guards were
stationed at the foot of every staircase
leading to the second fl >or ana nobody,
not even the guess of the hotel, wert
allowed TO pass.
More extended examinations were
mad4 by DR.. Hume and several other
physicians, who had been called, result
ed in the announc sment that the wound
was not necessarily fatal and tn,
wounded man viii i'll all probability re
cover.
The ball, it was found, had inflicted
wound of somewhat glancing ra
lure and had not gone through the lung
direct in line as DR.. Hume had thought
ON first examination. Had ths bal
struck the chest an inch to the right it
would have caused certain death.
The bullet which struck Mr.. Goebel
was fred from window in the center
of the third story of the Office building
just east of the capitol. That window
was raised about eight inches from the
gill to permit an unobstructed passag,
of the bullet when Mr.. Goebel SHOULD
come within range. Both Chinn anC
Lillard assert that while the FIRST sho
came from the direc zion of the window
in the third story, there were othei
shots fired from different portions Of thu
building. Some Of those who heard the
shots say that at least one shot was free
from the oiico of the secretary Of STATE
This however, is not credited as there
were men in tho office 0. tho secretar,
a etate who rushed 10 Tho window a
tnll ln leN'nr vera hNtri AM All a.
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