Bradford County telegraph. (Starke, Fla.) 1888-current, 1900-02-02
ASSASSIN'S BULLET
LAYS GOEBEL Low
Contamination Of a Dastardly Plot
StirS the State of Kentucky.

care you hurt, Goebel? Did they
get you?'
"They have got me this time" said
Mr.. Goebel. 81 guess they have
killed me-"
While Chinn was holding the
wounded man, supporting his head in
his arms, four shots more we're fired
at both men. All of them struck close,
making the dust fly from the brick
pavement.
Both Chinn and Lillard stuck to
their friend, neither of them moving
from his side until the firing ceased.
Chinn and IIillard are men of expert
ence in affairs in which powder smoke
is q more or less prominent feature
and both declare that while they could
tell the general direction from which
the bullets came, they could but guess
at the spot from which they We're fired.
When the firing ceased Lillard ron
for help. He had not far TO go, for
there is always q crowd around the
gates of the capitol building.
In less than a minute dozens of men
were around Goebel. He was losing
much blood aud was becoming very
weak. He was hastily carried to the
Office of DIR. Z. E. Hume, in the base
ment of the Capitol hotel, about a
thousand feet from the spot where the
shooting occurred. Here he was laid
upon a sofa while DR.. Hume made O
hasty examination, pronOuncing the
wound to he of nature that must
cause death in a short time.
MILITARY CALLED OUT.
The Republican officials acted with
the greatest promptitude. Adjutant
General Collier was sitting in his
Office when the shots we're fired. He
was not over 200 feet from Goebel
when he fell. He instantly rushed
out of the building, and being told
that GOebel had been shot, he realized
that prompt steps must be taken to
avoid the turbulence which might
easily follow the great excitement
which was increasing every minute.
He at once telephoned to the armory
on the hill, where all during the gu
bernatOrial contest the local company
of infantry had been in reserve and
within 20 minutes~rhe company, 80
strong, under command of Captain
Wolcott, WAS drawn up front of the
capitol building. Guards were placed
at every gate leading to the capitol
grounds and nobody was permitted to
enter or leave.
GOebel, who showed great fOrtitude
and courage throughout, smiled weak
~ as be heard the verdict and feebly
rolled his head from side to side in
token of dissent from the opinion ex-
pressed by the physician. He was
then carried to his room on the second
floor of the Capitol hotel and in addi-
ton to DR.. Hume, Drs. Mccormick
and Ely were summoned to attend
/ him.
/ There was talk on every side of
placing under arrest every man who was
J in the building when the shots were
fired, even including Governor Taylor,
though, of course, nobody believed
for a moment that he had any knOwl-
edge of the crime. He expressed him.
self Immediately after the shooting as
being extremely sorry that such thing
had happened.
Adjutant General Collier. who is q
red hot follower of Governor Taylor,
and who has never minced his words
in any way when Mr.. Goebel was the
subject of discussion, said:
cit is most deplorable affair in ev-
I cry way. 1 would not have had it
happen, for it may possibly cause
trouble in Frankfort, but l think not.
At any rate if the trouble comes, We
are abuudantly able to take care of it. y
As soon as it was nOised around
that GOebel had been shot members of
the legislature made wild rush for
the telegraph Office and filed vOlumi-
nous messages to their constituents,
and within an hour replies began to
pour in, the general run of them being
one tenor, which was 'We are coming.
1t WAS expected in answer that fully
5000 men would arrive in Frankfort
during the afternoon and night.