Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1911-01-24
Phillips IS shot
By insane MAN
NOVELIST SHOT DOWN IN STREET
NEAR HIS CLUB.
ASSAILANT Then SUICIDES
Author Had Been Bothered ny Calls
and Lcttcrs-IIis Condition
Critical.

New York, Jan. 23.-Davld Graham
Phillips editor, publlcIst, and novelist.
was shot six times today as he ap-
preached the Princeton Club by Fitz-
hugh Coylc Goldsborough. a Harvard
man, who Immediately after commit
ted suicide Phillips Is at the Belle
view hospital IN a critical condition,
but as relatives expressed with "a
chance for life" The body OF Colds
borough, whose career Mt Harvard
was brief, lies In a morguc. Appnr-
entity insanse he had an advanced
grudge against the author and sought
his life. He was 81 years old. Phillips
is i3.
There you 60" said the assallant
ms he opened fire and hero | go"
ho retorted as he sent a bullet In his
own brain, lie used an automatic pls-
tol and all six shots aimed at Phil
lips took effect one of them perfo-
rated his abdomen; another pierced
his right lung and came out of his
back, Goldsborough was walking In
an opposite direction from Phillips.
There was no argument as they met,
no quarrel, aud no opportunity for
self defense.
Tho shiny barrel Of n pistol gilnted
In the sunshine, n thin haze of powder
spat from the muz2le and patter OF
shots punctuated the air with great
rapidlty. Phillips staggered. did not
fall lurched against the iron railing
that surrounded the club house yards.
with one hand TO his body and tho
other grasplng for support.
Satisfied that he had been success-
| full, the assailant fired the seventh
shot into his own brain and toppled
over before anybody could reach him.
For hours the body lay IN the bright
sunshine with only sheet to cover Il.
| Policemen and bys'auders came up
on the run. At the same moment
three members OF the club rushed
down the steps and carried Phillips
into the house
Graham, what's happened?" ask
ed q friend Phillips was conscious
and was suffering intensely.
"lIo shot me In the bowels" he an
swered Don't bother with him.
For Gods sake get q doctor"
II was sometime before an ambul-
ance arrived. and I'm the meantime the
club members were trying TO Identity
the dead man. In the pockets were
cards bearing a name and address at
| 1881 X street, Washington, ID. G. He
carried twenty-four dollars I'm cash, a
membership card In the American
Federation OF Musicians. and two
manuscripts Of short stories
N a
the Princeton Club, recognized the
man for Fitzhugh Goldsborough OF
an old and respected Maryland fam
ily he said. Word from Washington
confirmed the Identification and add
cd that Goldsborough was a Harvard
graduate. McCombs corrected that.
Ife said that Goldsborough entered
Harvard with tho class of 1901, but
left college at the end OF his fresh
man year
After tho arrival Of The coroner the
body was taken 20 a police station.
where Il was further identified by AL
gernon Lee, secretary OF the Rand
school of Social Science, where Colds
borough lived Lee said that Colds
borough camo here IN November and
took rooms NJ the school He was not
student and mingled little with the
life Of the institution.
Harrison W. Phillips, David Gra-
hams younger brother said that
Goldsborough had been bothering
David with letters and telephone calls
to Princeton Club for month or six
weeks, but that his brother had never
been able to learn what the mans
grievance was He thought perhaps
that they had met at somo socialistic
gathering and that Goldsborough iu-
sisted that Phillips ought to do somo-
thing for the cause"