Evening journal., 1911-01-24
SAY PHILLIPS
WILL RECOVER
Police Unable to Discover
Motive for the Shooting
Of the Novelist
LATTER DID NOT KNOW
HIS MURDEROUS ASSAILANT

By United Press Leased Special Wire !
NEW YORK, Jan 24.-Following
an examination by Doctors Donovan,
Walker and Hotchkiss, today or David
Graham Phillips, shot yesterday after
non by Fitzhugh Coyle Goldsborough,
Of Washington, it was announced at
Bellevue Hospital that there had been
no untoward development and that the
injured man has excellent prospects
Of recovering. The chief danger isl
that pneumonia may result from the
wound in the lung. but up to the pres
ent 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 obsessed with
fanciful grievance against the author
over which he broOded until he be-
came 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 enmity.
A close friend If Phillips who was
also acquainted with Goldsborough,
says that the dead violinist, aired an
alleged grievence against the novelist
TO him some weeks ago. He told me
that Phillips had committed a great
wrong" this man told the police to-
day, but he did not say whether the
wrong was against him or another
person. He left the impression, how
ever, that it was against another and
asked me to bring him and Phillips
together. told him Mr.. Phillips was
man of the highest degree Of honor
and that | would not think of speak
/ ing of this matter to my friend
! also told him that Phillips knew how
! TO take care Of himself and warned
him he would get i'm Jail if he annoyed
him."
The police today carefully examined
all of Goldsborough's effects in The
hope of securing something tina
would throw light on the shooting
They thought It barely possible that
inasmuch as GoldsbOrough had tOlI
another Of the alleged wrong, h
might have made q written record o
It. Nothing was found however. Z
solve the mystery.
The suggestion made by some {
Goldsborough' friends that the dea
yiolinist believed Phillips had take
the Goldsborough family as mode
for his book "The Fashionable Adven
lures of Joshua Craig" was scoffed a
by Phillips friend Il was said tina
the author did not know the GOldsboT
oughs at all, and that his character
in the novel, were purely creature
of fancy.
May Find a Motive.
The police are still hopeful, how
ever. that they will be able to estat
lish the motive for the shooting. Tn
fact that Goldsborough sent threaten
ing letters and kilograms to the an
thor, they say. proves that he reall
believed he had a grievance.
Phillips retained all his nerve 4;
the hospital today. His intimai
friend. United States Senator Albe
J. Beveridge, of Indiana, hurried ovC
from Washington and reacher Bell
vue Hospital just about daylight 4
day He was permitted to see Phi
lips and the latter, fully consciOu
smiled at him and whispered that I
was all right and would soon be we
again. Beveridge stayed with hi
only moment or two and then wei
to a hotel AS he was leaving the no
pital, he said:
This is shocking. Mr. Phillips
a loveable character. and | did n
know he had an enemy in the world
Beveridge said he would rema
here until Phillips is out Of DANCE
despite the fact that his presence
urgently needed in Washington.