The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-01-24
SHOOTING OF AUTHOR STILL
 MYSTERIOUS
David Graham Phillips, Riddled With Bullets, Has Good
 Chance to Live
Injured Novelist Did Not Know His Assailant Who Had a
 Fancied Grievance
Especial from United Press.)

New York, Jan. 24.-Following an examination, early today, by Drs. Donovan, Walker and Hotchkiss, of David Graham Phillips, shot yester- day afternoon by Fitzhugh Coyle G Goldsborough, of Washington, 1t was announced at Bellevue Hospital that there has been no untoward develop ment and that the injured man has excellent prospects of recovering The chief danger is that pneumonia may result from the wound in the lung. but up to the present time there is no indication of this.
 The cause of the shooting is still a mystery. Relatives and friends Of Goldsborough insist that his act was that of an insane person; that he had been eccentric from youth and that he had become obscessed with a fanciful grievance against the au- thor over which he brooded until he became insane. Phillips himself says he never saw the man to his knowl- edge and that, so far as he knows he never gave him cause for enm1ty
 A close friend of Phillips who was also acquainted with Goldsborough, says that the dead violinist aired an alleged grievance against the novelist to him some weeks ago. He told me that Phillips had committed a great
  day, "but he did not say. whether the wrong was against him or another person. He left the impression, how ever, that 1t was against another and asked me. to bring him and Phillips together. I told him MT. Phillips was a man of the highest degree of hon. or and that would not think of speaking of this matter to my friend. I also told him that Phillips knew how to take care of himself and warned him he would get in jail if
 The police. today, carefully exa- mined all of Goldsborough's effects in the hope of securing something that would throw light on the shoot ing. They thought it barely possible told another of the alleged wrong, he might have made @ written record of it. Nothing was found, however, to solve the mystery.
 Tho suggestion made by some of Goldsborough's friends that the dead the Go1dsborough family as model for his book, ''The Fashionable Ad- ventures of Joshua Craig,' was scof- fed at by Phillips friends. It was said that the author did not know the Goldsboroughs at all and that his characters in the novel were purely creatures of fancy.
 The police are still hopeful, how ever, that they will be able to estab- fish the motive for the shooting. The fact that Goldsborough sent threat ening letters and telegrams to the author, they say, proves that he real ly believed he had a grievance.
 Phillips retained all of his nerve at the hospital, today. His intimate friend, United States Senator Albert J. Beveridge, of Indiana. hurried over from Washington and reached Bellevue Hospital just about daylight, today. He was permitted to see Phillips and the latter, fully con- scious, smiled at him and whispered that he was all right and would soon be we'll again. Beveridge stayed with him only a moment or two and then went to a hotel. As he was leaving the hospital, he said:
 '''This is shocking. MT. Phillips is a lovable character and did not know he had an enemy in the world"
 Beveridge said that he would re-, main here until Phillips is out of danger, despite the fact that his presence is urgently needed in Wash ington.