The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1911-01-25
INJURIES ARE SERIOUS
David Grahame Phillips, The
Writer, Shot Six Times.

known Novelist and Magazine
Writer - The Would-Be Assassin
Was Professional VioIinist-Vic-
tim Had Received Many Threatening
Notes, kilograms and Telephone
Calls Of an Abusive Nature.
New York, Jan. 24.-David Graham
Phillips, novelist and magazine writer,
was shot six times and probably NOR
tally wounded yesterday afternoon in
front of the home of Schuyler Shelf
Tin, Gramercy Park, North, just as
Mr.. Phillips was about to enter the
former home of Stanford White, now
the Princeton club, for his mail.
The shots were fired by Fitzhugh
Coyle Goldsborough, a professional
violinist, who was a former student in
the academy school of Harvard but
who of late has been rooming on the
top floor of the Rand School of Social
Science, where he has been giving vio-
lin lessons when not writing verses.
After shooting Phillips, Goldsbor.
ough shot himself in the right temple
and dropped dead.
Did Not Know AssaiIant.
What caused Goldsborough, who was
waiting near the entrance to the
Princeton club at an hour when Mr..
Phillips usually calls there for his
mail, to fire the shots is not known
When the wounded man was carried
into the club he still was conscious
and when asked whether he knew the
man who shot him, Phillips answered
that he did not.
Later in the day, however, it was
learned from Harrison w. Phillips, a
brother OF David Graham Phillips, that
for some time the wounded man has
been receiving letters, notes, kilograms
and telephone calls of a threatening
and abusive nature not only at his
home in the National Arts club on the
south side of Gramercy park, but at
the Princeton club.
Harrison Phillips said that no name
was attached TO these communications
but that in view of the shooting he
supposed Goldsborough had sent them.
Mr. Phillips was carried to the re-
ception room of the club and laid on
rug while the telephone operator
notified the police and also called for
ler.
DR.. Fuller arrived at the club at the
same time that the ambulance came
from Bellevue. Mr.. Phillips was car
ried out through lane which the
police had made through the huge
crowd which blocked the street In
front of the club.
A few feet away lay the body of
Goldsborough. The police covered
Goldsborough' body and it lay on the
pavement until it was removed to the
morgue after first being taken to the
police station to be searched.
Goldsborough's Body Sent to Morgue.
When Mr.. Phillips reached Bellevue
he was taken to surgical ward where
he remained pending the arrival Of
Dr. John B. Walker and DR.. Lucius w.
Hitchcock, visiting surgeons at the hos
pital. DR.. F. w. Donovan, the house
surgeon, and his assistants decided
that Mr.. Phillips heart action was
too weak to permit them to administer
opiates for the relief of his suffering,
They were obliged to give him stimu-
lants,
Mr.. Phillips was taken to the oper.
uting room and 1t was an hour before
the doctors were ready to take him
back to the surgical ward Altogether
there was II perforations from the six
bullets only one of them remaining in
his body. Three OF the bullets had
dropped to the ground upon his ar.
rival at the hospital.
DR.. Walker and Dr. Hitchcock per.
formed the operation. Six steel 80
calibre bullets from a colt automatic
pistol entered Mr.. Phillips body. All
Of these bullets except one in tho
thigh came oNt of the body, making
II perforatlcns altogether
Victims Lung Is Punctured.
The most dangerous wound was in
the right side of the chest. This bul-
let had Dunctured the lung and the
doctors especially fear this wound as
1t may lead TO pneumonia.
There was superficial wound of the
abdomen below this wound and two
more flesh wounds in the right hip
Another bullet had tore the flesh OF
The left forearm and another, the on
ly one remaining in the body is lodged
In the right thigh.
The physicians said that as thea
wounds were clcansed promptly an1
rs the bullets were of steel they hoped
that blood poisoning would not set in.
At first 1t was said that Mr.. Phil
lips had been shot through the ab.
domen but Dr.. Hitchcock denied this.
"The abdominal wound" said DIR.
Hotchkiss after the operation, at first
gave us the most concern but we have
found that the wound in the breast is
the most serious. The abdominal is
merely superficial. The chief thing we
had to do with this wound was to see
that antiseptics were thoroughly ap-
piled to it.
"There is grave danger, however,
that pneumonia may develop from the
wound in the chest This bullet went
through the chest, puncturing the lung
and dropped out at the back. But on
the whole think there is good
chance for recovery"