The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-01-24
DAVID GRAHAM PHILLIPS
 IS SHOT DOWN BY A MAN
 WHO COMMITS SUICIDE

bowels" he answered. Don't bother
 with him, for Gods sake get doctor.''
 It was some time before an ambulance arrived and in the meantime the club members were trying to identify the dead man. In the pockets were cards bearing his name and the address, 1881 K street,
 Washington, D. c. He carried s245O in cash, membership card in the American Federation of Musicians, and two manu- scripts of short stories. one entitled, 'The Conquest of the Climate" and the other
 For Conscience' Sake" The body was
 well dressed and well nourished. Colds borough wore silk socks and had been freshly shaven. William F.. McCombs
 secretary of the Princeton club, recog- nized the man for Fitzhugh Goldsbor
 oGgh, of an old and respected Maryland family, he said. Word from Washington confirmed the Identification and added
 that Goldsborough was a Harvard man.
 McCombs said he had entered Harvard
 with the class of 1901, but left at the end
 of his freshman year.
 After the arrival of the coroner the todv wcs taken 10 a poIice station, where it was further identified by Algernon Lee, secretary of the Rand School of Social Science. where Goldsborough lived Lee said that Goldsborough came to this city
 last November and took rooms at the
 school. He was not a student and min- gled little with the life of the institution
 The Rand School of Social Science was
 founded five years ago by Dr. D. G. Her ron, socialist with money bequeathed
 by the will of Mrs. E. D. Rand, widow of millionaire lumber man.
 q am surprised'' said MT. Lee, that Goldsborough should have attempted the
 life of Mir Phillips. who lived near us,
 sometimes came to see us. and took a
 friendly interest in us We know little of
 Call antapadantS He
 came to us as a socialist and said he
 would like to live with us He was vio-
 linist and gave lessons. I am told that
 he had been writing begging letters to
 Mir. Phillips. We knew nothing of that
 Harrison W. Phillips, David Graham's
 younger brother. said that Goldsborough
 had been botheripg David with letters and telephone calls to the Princeton club for a month or six weeks, but that his brother had never been able to learn what the mans grievance was He thought per- haps they had met at some socialstic gathering and that Goldsborough had in-
 sisted that Phillips ought to "do some thing for the Cause.
 Mrs. Caroline Ferverts. Phillips sister. who lived with him at the National Arts club. thought her brother Harrison must be mistaken. She doubted if David ever
 had met the man, although she. too. said
 he had been bothered with notes and tele- phone calls, demanding appointinents III dark and out-of-the.way places
 One of the members of the club said that when Phillips was asked who shot
 him, he answered, "T don't know" David Graham Phillips was born in Madison. Ind. on october 3l, 1S67 and graduated first at De Pauw university and later from Princeton in the class Of 's7 His first literary work was done as
 reporter for the New York Sun, which he left to become an editorial writer for the New York World. While still with the World he published In 1901 his first novel, the Great God Success" It brought him royalties and he resigned from newspaper work to devote himself to fiction and the magazines. For time he wrote many editorials for the Saturday
 Evening Post of Philadelphia. as well as signed special articles.
 He is unmarried.
 MT. Phillips was painstaking but methodical workman and his books fol- lowed one another with regularity at the rate of two year. He did most of his writing on the early morning before luncheon, and usually composed standing up at a high desk. His daily stunt was done today and he was just stroiling over to the club for little recreation when he was shot.