Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1900-02-08
GOEBEL SUCCUMBED
SATURDAY EVENING
Made a Gallant Fight Against Death,
But Is Compelled to Yield
at Last.


But Is Compelled to Yield
at Last.
TURNS TO RELIGION AT THE LAST
fore Death ana Expresses
Belief in tho Teachings
Of Christianity.
Frankfort, Ky, Feb. 5.-Mr. Goebel
| died at exactly 6:44 O'Clock Saturday
night. Arthur Goebe of Cincinnati
and Mrs. Rraunaker of Ohio, mar
ried sister. both of whom have been
constant attendants at the dying
mans bedside. We're alone with him
when the end came. They had pre-
viously requested DIR. Hume to leave
| them alone with their unconscious
| brother. The doctor Withdrew. and
! shortly after, while kneeling at the
| bedside OF their brother, the wounded
| man gave gasp and was gone.
| Stricken with SORROW and anguish,
| the brother and sister did not move
from their positions. They remained
in the Same way With the door closed
| until $50 p. M. when their brother.
Justus Goebel. who had Just returned
| from Arizona. arrived. He entered
| the room and the door WAS closed a
| few minutes.
Soon after Dr. Hume was summon
| ed and TO him Arthur Goebc am
nounced that Mr.. Goebel had died at
6:i4 p. IN. At 1897 notice of Mr.. Goe-
| bel's death was passed through the
| hotel corridors.
| Mr. Goebel's condition Friday night
and we'll into the morning was consid-
cred so much improved that for the
| first since he was shot down in front
of the state house hopes were enter
tanned of his ultimate recovery. His
hiccoughs and nausea, with both of
which he has been troubled more or
| less from the first. had almost entire
ly disappeared, and he rested we'll up
to midnight. But after that hour he
| awolle frequently. and about 4 o'clock
| the hiccoughs returned, accompanied
| by some nausea. This trouble. how
ever. soon yielded to treatment, the
| patient again doing until 6 o'clock,
| when he grew restless. At his request
| former Congressman Hendricll was
| called. and MIR. Goebel asked for some
of his legal advisers with whom he
wished to confer. From that time
until 10 o'clock Mr.. Goebel rested
| fairly we'll. doing at times, but short
| ly after 10 o'clock he suddenly grew
worse. The hiccou9hs and nausea re-
turned with increased violence. and
| his pulse ran up alarmingly. Drs. Nc
Cormack and Hume were hastily sum
moncd, and hypodermic injections of
whisky and strychninc, and after
wards of morphine, We're given him.
| At Mr. GoebeI's request Chaplain T..
| q. Wallace, of the Kentucky peniten-
tiarN, am intimate friend, was sent
| for. and the two had a short CONVEX
| sation.
Acknowledges Christianity.
Lew" said Mr.. Goebel, 81 wish to
announce to the world that ] do not
hold myself i'm open violence to the
word of Cod
The sufferer for the first time i'm
his long. weary struggle for life had
apparently lost his indomitable cour-
age. and soon relapsed into condi-
| ton of senn-consciousness
About 1 O'Clock he aroused himself
again, and calling DR.. Mccormack to
his side. said: Doctor. am I going to
get Well? want to know the truth,
| for / have several things to attend
| to-
MIR Goebel, you have but a few
hours TO live" replied DIR. McCor-
mack. Mr.. Goebel was silent for a
moment. then calling his brother, Ar
thur Goebel. TO his side. he asked
that tine physicians and nurses retire
Then for twenty minutes the dying
man was left with his brother and
] sister.
Soon after this he again fell into
a stupor. and at 2 o'clock his condi-
ton was considered so alarming that
as Il last resort oxygen was given in
the endeavor to keep him alive. il
| possible, until the arrival of his
brother. Justice Goebel
This treatment resulted in an inn
provement, but the rally was so slight
and slow that it was apparent that
the end was not far off, and Rev. DIR
Taliaferro, OF the Methodist church
of Frankfort. was sent for. lie came
at once. and after an earnest prayer
he read few selected verses from
The epistle to st. James, but the dying
man was apparently unconscious OF
what was TRANSPORTING about him
Shortly after o'clock the dying man
was again given oxygen. and again /;
slight rally resulted. but it was only
/ temporary. At 6:1o p. m. DIR. Hume
left the dying mans bedside, and the
afflicted brother and sister turned t.
DIR. Mccormack and requested thai
they be left entirely alone with theil
brother, who was fast sinking.
AS the doctors withdrew the grief
stricken brother and sister lknelt al
his bedside, praying that the life
might be spared until their brother
Justice should arrive. Their prayers
were in vain. Even as they watched
the pulsations became slower anC
slower, gradually but steadily grow
ing weaker, and with a slight CULVER
of the eyelids, one breath deeper thar
the rest. a pause. gasp, and the
life that had been battling so valiant
ly against the assassin's bullet since
last Tuesday morning, fickered out
At 1920 the train bearing Justice
Goebel pulled into the station. Tc
meet him We're Trey Woodson, Sam
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