The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1900-02-02
ATTEMPT TO ASSASSINATE
GOEBEL.
Shot Through the Body by a
Winchester Rifle.
Widest EXCITEMENT CAUSED
EVERYWHERE.
Republican Leaders Express Grest
Sorrow.

Frankfort, Ky.. January 3d.
Goebel was shot aud very serious
~ injured this morning at ll:lO
o'clock. while passing through the
Stale house yard on his wsy TO
tue Capitol building.
Two shots we're tired from a RI
Re. only Que OF them taking effect.
IL struck Mr.. Goebel Ia the -rIghl
side one third the way from the
arm pit TO the hip. Tue bali pass
ed entirely through the body,
coming out below Ihr right shout
der blade. Ii Is not thought by
the physicians Ia charge that thr
wound will prove fatal uul ss com
plicatious set ia. John Whilia
ker. n farmer ia0m Butler county
is under arrest, charged silh hav
Ing fred Tue shOts. but he denies
tina, he had anything Ia do viii,
! is. Eve feveivers uere found
upon hun When he Was taken mtO
custody.
Mr.. GOebel, ia company with
Dol. Jack OBInn aud Warden Eph
Lillard OF the Frankfort penlten
tiary, vas walElng up The side
walk leading FROM the street 10
the Capitol OuIlding, GOeOel being
on the right Of the three. When
the three neu we're two thirds of
the way from the street TO the
Capital ~ shot was fred from the
third story of the building Occn.
pied 10y the Offices OF Governor,
Secretary OF State aud leading OF.
ficIals of the State. The tall
struck Mr. Goebel Ia The sids. aud
be instantly dropped TO the pave
meut. Ohlnn aud Lil!ard instant.
ly seized him, Ohiuu saying as he
did so:
Il guess they have got you, Co.
ebel."
YES" replied the wounded
man, II guess they hsye got me
for sure"
While OhInn was holding the
wounded man. supporting his head
in his arms, four shots more were
fred at both men. All OF them
struck close, making the dust fly |
from the brick pavement. Both |
Ubinn aud Lillard stuck TO their /
friend. neither of them moving
from his side until the firing cea.
ed, when Lillard ran for help. He
had not far TO go, tor there is al.
ways u crowd around the gates OF
the Capitol building. A crowd OF
men were around Mr.. GOebel IN
less than u minute, aud he was
carried to the Office of DIR. Il. Z
Hume, in the basement of the Gap
ital Hotel, about loo feet from
the spot where the shooting DC
CURED. DIR. Hume made "a super
fetal examination of the wound
which had, he declared, penetrat
ed the right lung aud would Ia all
probability prove fatal. Mr.. GOe-
bel WAS ,hen hastily taken from
the office Of DR.. Hume TO biz own
room on the second floor of the
Capital Hotel. Guards were STA.
TONED al the foot of every stair.
case leading TO the second floor,
aud nobody, not even the guests
of the hotel, were allowed TO pass.
The House was in session when
the shooting occurred, aud the
Senate WAS Ia have met Sithin
twenty minutes. therefore. the
Capitol building was Gil d with
members uf the Legislature. and
TO say that excitement followed L.
putting il very mildly. From both
halls men ran wildly down The
steps without hats or coats. and
one member OF the House cam,
gu. carrying ia his hand "A bill o.
which he had been arguing whrh
the shooting occurred, IS thu
time the members of the Legisla
ture had reached the lower floor, !