The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-02-04
SLIGHT RALLY.


Shortly after o'clock the dying man
was again given oxygen and again 4
slight rally resulted, but it was only tenn
porary. His respiration gradually grew
more laboriOuS and rose TO So, while his
pulse dropped to 120. AT O'Clock DR..
Hume left the bedside and reported to
the anxious walters at the hotel that
death was, 4 matter OF but few mo-
ments' time. The oxygen treatment was
used constantly in a desperate effort to
keep Mr.. Goebel alive until Justus Goebel
arrived, 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.. Mccormick and requested that tney
be left entirely alone with their rother,
who was fast sinking. The physicians
silently withdrew, closed the doors Of the
room, leaving behind them the grief
stricken brother and sister. Silently they
knelt at his badside, their eyes fastened
upon the half-open eyelids of the uncon-
scious man. He could give no sign OF
further recognition and Yet he was not
absolutely unconscious. Scarcely breath
ing themselves, the brother and sister bent
over the death-bed listening to the short,
sharp EaspS of death and praying that
life might be spared until their brother
Justus could arrive.
THE END.
Their prayers We're in vain.
Even as they watched the pulsallohs
became slower and slower, gradually put
steadily growing weaker and weaker and
with a slight quiver of the eyends, one
breath deeper than the rest L pause, Il
gasp and the life that had been batting
SO valiantly against the assassin's bullet
since last Tuesday morning 1lickered out.
Death had claimed its victim. and the
brother and sister, bowed by sorrow,
whose pangs were intensified by the
knowledge that a few miles away, hurry
ing to them was their brother Justus.
who would arrive too late, sat down upon
the death-bed alone with their dead
brother.
Not a sign went from the room to ap-
prise The anxious watchers in the hotel
corridor without that Mr.. Goebel had
passed out The stricken brother and
sister were left alone undisturbed. while
the two physicians outside the door anN-
iously looked at their watches as the
minutes flew by, fearing tho truth yet
wondering at the long silence Finally at
p. NJ, the train bearing JustuS Goebel
came in.
At the station to meet him were Urey
Wodson Samuel Shackelford, clerk of the
Court of Appeals, and Mayor 'khinoch, OF
Covington. They met Mr.. Goebel at the
car steps. "1s he dead? Tell me; is he
dead" were the first words he uttered.
..He is not dead" was the assurance
given him by the friends who had no ink
ling OF the ruth.
DIED PI-ANLESSLY.
The party entered carriage. and 1lVe
minutes TO seven arrived at the Capltol
Hotel. With tears streaming from MS
eyes Mr.. Goebel was conducted to the
chamber where lay his brother. A rap
7, VII
bel who silently drew his brother I'm and
closed the door. Five minutes l.Ier Ar
thur Goebel again opened the door and
motioned to the two physicians. He
died at Gas o'clock, painlessly," was all
he said, and then closed the door.
There was no excitement in the corri-
dor Those who heard the words of Ar
thur Goebel were reverently silent. and
did not disseminate the intelligence
Within a few moments the following an
had been prepared and was
silently handed about the hotel and IN
the streets:
10 the People of Kentucky:-1t is with
the most profound sorrow that we an
nounce the death of Governor William
G>,ebel. In his last moments he counselled
his friends to keep cool and bow to the
law in all things. We. his friends. beg of
the people Of Kentucky, in this hour Of
to carefully apSta1n from any,
act Of violence or any resort to mob law.
It would be his wish. If he We're alive.
tha.. there should be no stain on his mem
DRY by an imprudent act Of any who are
his friends. The law is supreme and
must in time be re-established. and all
the wrongs he and his party have suffer-
ed will find their proper redress.
]. C. S. BLACKBURN
UREY WOoDSON,
J.sR. M'CREARY,
JAMES ANDREW SCOTT, |
b. w. .BRADBt,RN.
c. c. M'CHORD.
WILLIAM S. PRYOR,
c. NJ. FLEWIS.
JOHN C.. HENDRICKS.
LEWIS M'QUoWN.
S. ] SIIACKEGFORD,
SOUTH TRIAfBLE
Speaker of the House.
L. II. CART.
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