Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-01-25
Goldsborough, Slayer of Novel;
ist, May Be Buried in Oak Hill. !
DIARY TELLS OF MOTIVE.
Suicide Wrote He. Considered Phil.
lips an Enemy to Society.
BELIEVED HIMSELF IN DANGER
Condition of His Mind Shown bv
collection Of Aphorisms Dealing
With Public Men.

The funeral of Fitzhugh Coyle Goldsbor-
ough. who shot the novelist. David Ora
ham Phillips. I'm New York, and then COM
nitted suicide. will take place tomorrow
or Friday. Services will be private and
the interment will probably be made in
Oak Hill cemetery.
Inc body was brought to Washington
TINS morning from New York I'm the care
OF J. W. Lee. undertaken, who went to
New York to make all the ARRANGEMENTS
Tor bringing 1t here.
arthur Goldsborough an uncle OF FItz-
nugh Goidsborough. and Miss Julia Colds
porough, sister, who went to New York
immediately after news had been re-
celVed here OF the shooting of David Gra-
nam Phillips and the suicide of their rela
tive reached Washington at O'Clock this
afternoon. They took charge of Gold,-
ooroughs effects and arranged for their
Shipment to this city,
Most OF the Goldsboroughs who haye
dled In the past have been buried on the
the family decide not TO have the inter-
nent In Oak Hill. il will be made. no
doubt, in Maryland
Adu ocen LII or GRIP.
Members OF the Goldsboreugh family
mere expressed great sorrow today for
the family OF David Graham Phillips.
whose career was cut short oy the action
Of Fitzhugh Goldsborough. hey reiter -
ed their former statement that they did
not know Mr.. Phillips, nor did they know
that Ftzhugh Goldsborough bore him
any ill-will. Fitzhugh. Goldsborough. in
a letter to his mother just before the
shooting. wrote that he had been suffer-
ing from the grip and IL is believed that
bis illness may have had something to
do with precipitating the tragedy.
The wedding of Miss Frances Colds
borough to William F. Stead, United
States consul at Nottingham, England.
Will take place as planned, February y.
The wedding. however, will take pla-o
at the Goldsborough home, 1881 X street.
and VIII be very quiet affair, instead
OF being one Of the social events Of the
season, as had been expected.
Imagined Novelist Wronged Him.
NEW YORK, January 25-Fftzhugh
Coyle Goldsborougn. the young violinist
who shot David Graham Phillips Mon
day afternoon harbored a long and fan
ciful grievance against the novelist. This
was shown by remarkable collection OF
notes made in diary form by the assas-
sin In small book. picked up on the
street by citizen near the spot where
Goldsborough fell after shooting himself.
1t was turned over to the authorities yes
terday. The contents Of the book were
given out by Coroner Holtzhauser last
night. Goldsborough had kept the items
referring to Phillips I'm diary form. be-
ginning in June, 1910. He started in on
June IL by saying that he believed that
Phillips was trying to fake a case
against him and meant to do him serious
bodily harm.
He wrote of letters which he had writ
ten to Phillips. accusing him of some un-
named wrongdoing. and tells IF seeing
mysterious men on his rambles i'm the
city parks. They were emissaries of Phil
lips. he thought He had evidently tried
hard to met Phillips. but had never sue
ceeded. He refers to Phillips "a black
guard and an enemy to society.
A mysterious woman whom he first
thought was Phillips sister, but after
ward decided was not, he speaks OF as
trying to f1irt with him from the win
dows Of Phillips apartments in the Ma
tional Arts Club. He imagined that PHIL
lips had put the woman up to il. SO.
as to dlscredit the violinist among his
friends.
Heard Strange Noises.
Mysterious rappings on the pavements
at night and noises at his windows.
which the violinist recorded. showed his
unbalanced state Of mind. One day
Goldsborough noted that q man who. he
said. looked like Robert Adamson. sec
retary to Mayor Gaynor. tried to get him
into a quarrel in a cheap restaurant
June IL, 1910 Certain happenings re-
Gently lead me to think it advisable to
jot down data. 1 believe David Graham
Phillips is trying to fake a case against
me, or TO do me serious bodily harm, or
both. Yesterday afternoon at about
o'clock Il think) I was sitting at my
window. when / noticed q pretty look
ing woman seated at the second story
window of the arts society building.
This woman was about twenty years
old or little more. / should say, and
had - large hat with flowers around
"She smiled over at me in a pointed
manner. and on first catching sight OF
me lifted her hand and waved II. could
not quite decide whether this was an in
voluntary motion of interest on seeing
ME or was meant as a sign OF encourage
ment for me to start flirting with her.
l got rather the latter impression A
man was half In sight near her at the
window. l think 1t was David Graham
Phillips, but /! am by no means sure.
looked steadily at this window. then
glanced away just Hs the man came to-
the window to look out. then kept my
eyes away from that window as much
as / reasonably could.
THE woman, however, continued for
perhaps q half hour or three Quarters.
enough longer to sit there and take evi-
dent notice OF me. l concluded Ii was
Mrs. Frevert, ID. q. F.'s sister, and that
they were amusing themselves after re-
ceipt of my last letter to him. and at my
expense. But later. as l left my house,
that same woman left here and looked
at me fixedly, and do not think II was
Mrs. Frevert. Now. why did she make
those advances,
Was Careful, He Wrote.
cit occurred to me later that when I
hirted with her claim of my having
acted I'm an annoying way might have
been circulated. to my detriment l must
be careful of what plans this blackguard
may make to in1ure me.
'Ihe theory that he In soaking to do
so, however, rests on stronger evidences
than the mere incident Just described. AZ
few nights ago Il will try to ret the er.
act date later) ! found myself ehadowed
by man who, by fixed staring at me in
an impertinent manner on the street and
his spoon In his coffee cup when
he came In ten.oent restaurant, evi.
IDENTIFY wished to aruse me into beiliger.
ency.
II turned hack on this man two or three
times, always after he had apparently
left my trail. but caught him each time.
Now, Detectives would probably have
sought to iriftate me to provoke = scrap