Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1910-01-27
PHILLIPS DIES
OF HIS WOUNDS
Author Passes Away During a
Coughing Spell.
ATTACKER HAD DELUs|oNs
GoIdsborough Held Enrity Towards
Author Because Novel Contained
Characters Taken From His Family.

1oioSpoTou9H uSio Gh'''sy
Author Because Novel Contained
Characters Taken From His Family.
David Graham Phillips, the novelist,
who was shot six times on Monday af'
ternoon by Fitzhugh Coyle Goldsbor'
ough in Grammercy Park. died at the
Bellevue hospital in New York.
Mr.. Phillips had been vomiting
blood during the day, which symptom
told the physicians that the perfora'
ton in the lung caused by bullet
which had entered the right chest and
had passed out of the body near the
left shoulder blade, was not healing.
Dr. Eugene Fuller, Mr.. Phillips per-
sonal physician, gave the patient what
relief he could, but the patients con.
dition became especially alarming. The
excessive pain of his abdominal wound
during the day, the constant leakage
of blood into the throat from his lung
and intestinal sufferings following the
administering of ether on Monday, had
worn the novelist out. During severe
spell of coughing he died.
At his bedside were Mrs. Frevert,
his sister; Mr.. Harrison Phillips and
Dr. Fuller.
Senator Beveridge, who roomed with
David Graham Phillips at Depau uni
versity, had been at his bedside dur.
ing the day, arriving from Washing.
ton, but he was compelled to leave
for Washington again shortly after,
wards.
Many magazine writer's, novellsts
and artists visited the hospital, but
none of the callers except Senator
Beveridge were permitted to visit the
patients room. Many of the visitors
and others had sent floral gifts, and
after they learned of the death Of Mr..
Phillips these were arranged about
his bier.
More evidence showing that Colds
borough held enmity toward Mr.. Phil.
lips was learned, but at best no one
seemed able to piece enough of this
evidence together to show why Colds.
borough should have gone to the ex-
treme of shooting Phillips or, for that
matter, why Goldsborough, unless his
brain were normal, should hold any
enmity at all.
Stories that the violin:st shot the
novelist because Mr.. Phillips had writ.
ten a novel in which characters in one
of his books, which Goldsborough
thought were taken from Goldbor.
ough's own family in Washington,
where Mr.. Phillips lived for a short
while, were repeated to Harrison Phil.
lips, and he was asked whether or not
the publishers of the book had not
sent out press notices at the time the
book was published to the effect that
some one had objected to the novel on
the score that it caricatured members
Of certain family.
Harrison Phillips replied that he re-
membered that notices Of this charac.
ter had been sent out when the book
left the press. He was asked whether
he thought these notices were merely
the work of the publishers publicity
department or founded on fact. He
said that so far as he remembered they
were founded on fact. He said, how
ever, that neither he nor his brother
nor sister knew the Goldsborough
family
1t was learned also that almost a
year ago Goldsborough went to the
city hall to complain to Mayor Gaynor
about persons annoying him. During
this visit the violinist mentioned to
the mayors secretary, Mr.. Adamson,
the name of David Graham Phillips,
but not with any especial show Of AMI
mostly.