Delaware gazette and state journal., 1900-02-01
ATTEMPT TO KILL GOEBEL
The GuhernatOriaI Contestant
Shgt Down at Frankfort,
Ky, Tuesday.
WOUND WILL NOT PROVE FATAL
Intense Excitement Follows the
Shooting, but Cool Heads
Avoid a Riot--One Man
Arreste d for the Crime.


Frankfort, Ky, Jan. 3o.-State
Senator William Goebel. the Demo.
cratic cont, stant ioi governor, was shot
down by an assassin, this morning,
and wounded.
Senator Goebel was shot at 10 min
utes after II this morning. The shoot
ing was done by some man, at present
unknown.
MIR. Goebel was walking up the side.
walk leailing to the Senate chamber,
when man in the second story OF the
building immediately to the east OF the
Capitol fired on him.
Five shots were fired and Goebel fell
to the ground seriously wounded. He
was at once carried to the Capitol
Hotel.
The widest excitement was instantly
created In the town.
Within 10 minutes after Mr.. Goebel
had teen shot. the streets were filled
with men carrying rifles and revoivers.
A guard was instantly thrown around
the building from which the shots were
fired, to prevent the escape of the
assassin.
A force OF men dashed into the build.
the SLOTS were fred, but could find nc
one. The guard was redoubled and Ad.
Jutant-General Collier, an ardent politi.
cal opponent of Goebel, took charge Of
it, leading the work of finding the man
who fired tho shots.
The widest excitement prevailed all
over the town. .They have assassi-
mated Senator tioebel,n was shouted
into the door OF the@House of Repre-.
sentatiyes an instant after the shots
rang out, The members rushed pell-
nell over one another down the steps
to the front of the building, coatless
and hatless.
In five minutes word had flown and
hundreds poured into the State House
yard. 1t looked as If u riot would re-
suit. Cooler, heads advised the sur
rounding Of the building from which
the shots -came, and in less than three
minutes so special police surrounded it
and a detail began d search of the in
terror for the assassins.
NOT FATALLY HURT.
I Goebel is not fatally hurt. The ball
struck him in the right side and
passed through the body, coming out
below the shoulder blade. s.aF ,
4. AT noon report from Senator
Goebel's room is that the wounded
man is resting easily. DIR. McMurtray
and other Louisville specialists have
been telegraphed for aud will arrive
here at 4.3o O'Clock, to assist In caring
for the wounded man.
AN APPEAL FOR QUIET.
Ex-Mayor Ira Julian was early on
tie scene advising the crowd to dis
perso. lie said:
Let the blood be on the head of the
assassins. They have openly ,boasted
for months that Senator Gcebel would
never be governor of the State, they
always intended to prevent it in this
way. Let us have no rioting if We do
they are prepared to rush in the
Federal bayonets.
Uray Woodson, Democratic national
committeeman from Kentucky, said:
1.-THE, Senator is conscious but speech
less. DR.. Hume informs me that he
will recover. The bullet struck the
right side Just few inches below
shoulder joint, and came out under the
shoulder binde."
WHITAKER HAD FIVE PISTOLS.
John Whitaker of Butler, Gov. Tay-
lor's home county, was arrested a few
minutes after the shooting. He was
trying TO escape from the building
from which the shots were fred. When
searched five pistols we're talien off
Whittaker's person, lie loudly pro-
tested his Innocence, declaring that he
was Democrat and not Republican.
He said that he was not brought here
for the. purpose of killing anyone.
Whitaker ie % farmer.
A heavy guard of police surrounded
him ON the way to the county Jail.
Hundreds Of people followed.
Cries OF ''mob the assassin and
"lets take him away from the police
and hang him. were heard all along
the route.
Whitaker begged for protection, de-
claring hinlsoI innocent.
ANOTHER SHOOTING.
Thirty minutes after the shooting at
the State Honse another affiay took
place half square away, in which Ike
Williams, cnlored, was shot, it is
thought fatally. Craig Ireland of
Louisville, q white man, did the shoot
ing. IL happened in saloon.
In the rush following the shooting of
Goebel. Williams, it is stated, struck
Ireland, who drew his PISTOL and fired.
ireland was arrested.
The soldiers who have been on duty
at the State Capitol rushed from the
arsenal already uniformed Immediately
after the shooting and hurried to the
State House. All entrances were
guarded and no one was allowed to pass
IN.