Perth Amboy evening news., 1911-01-24
CONDITION IS
ENCOURAGING
Young Author Who Was Shot
Likely to Recover.

New York, Jan. 24:-Following
an examination by physicians of Da-
yfd Graham Phillips. shot yesterday
by Fitzhngn Coyle Goldsborough, OF
Washington, it is announced at the
Bellevue hospital that there has
been no untoward developments and
that the injured man has excellent
prospects of recovery. The chief
danger Is that pneumonia may re-
suit from the wound In the lung. but
just at 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 bis act is
that of an insane person. They say
he was eccentric from a youth and
that he had become diseased with a
fanciful grievance against the au-
thor over which he brooded until he
became insane. Phillips said he
never saw the man to his knowledge
and &c Tar as he knows never gave
him cause for enmity.
Phillips rallied from the operation
and was In good spirits. His brother,
Harrison Phillips, was whiting for him
to recover consciousness He straight
away asked hts brother to send a tele-
gram to his mother, who Is In Los
Angeles, telling her that he vas In
good condition and not to worry. DIR.
Donovan said Mr.. Phillips was IN good
shape.
What caused Goldsborough. who was
waiting lear the entrance to the
Princeton club at an hour when Mr..
Phillips usually calls there for his
mail. to fire the shets 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 1t was learned from Harrison
w. Phillips. a brother of David Grn-
ham Phillips, that for some time the
wounded man has been receiving let
tiers. notes, kilograms and telephone
calls of a threatening and abusive ne-
ture not only at his home in the Ma.
fional Arts club, but at the Princeton
club. Harrison Phillips said that ne
name was attached to these commu
nications, but that In view OF the
shooting he supposed -Golasbercugh
had sent them.
When Mrs. Carolyn Frevert. a sis
ter. who lives with the novelist in a
studio apartment at the National Arts
club, saw her brother at Bellevue hos
not long after the shooting she
nsked him II he knew why he had
been shot. He answered that he did
not Then he told Mrs. Frevert that
had received a telegram OF a mys-
aerious nature.
1T VAS addressed to me and also
tgned with my nanfe.s
He tried to ten his sister the nature
+ the telegram. but became uneon-
cfons before she could learn what the
esAaer Of \ Telegram haA te
3ne7 4s.sisf ala fkst among
he papers found upon Goldsbofough
vas one bearing the name and address
4 Mrs. Hermann Oefrichs, 1 East FIJI
street. Mrs. Delrtchs said
hat she never had heard OF GoIdsbor-
,ugh.
Mr.. Phillips Is ma OF the best known
llhltHilh group oI SIudy lEfiefa conn |
posed Of Booth darlington, Meredith
George Ade. Charles Major |
and others. A few months over forty |
three years OF age. he has written
twenty novels aud many magazine ar
ticles. Some Of the novels ranked
among the best selling books of f1efien.
and his work vas eagerly sought by
magazine publishers.
Washington, Jan. 24.-Goldsberough
was born here Oct. 5. 1879. He had
three brothers and two sisters. None
of them, 1t was said. had ever heard OF
David Graham Phillips except In a
purely cursory way.
The Geldsborougf family is one of
the oldest In Washington and Is prom
inent socially here. 1t has well known
connections in this city and in yfr-
einia. The Goldsboroughs have not
followed the trend of modern society
tn the capital, but have continued to
Hive In the old family mansion on K
street between Thirteenth and Four
.teenth streets, which years ago ceased
TO be the center~of social activity.