The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1911-01-25
DAM. onAnAM
PHILLIPS SHOT
Six Bullets Fired Into Celebrated
Novelist Near Princeton
Club.
TRAGEDY AT DOOR OF
STANFORD WHITES HOME
Assailant Was Fitzhugh Goldbor-
ough Who Immediately Com
mitted Suicide-Phillips May
Recover.

NEW YORK, Jan. 23.-David Gra-
ham Phillips. editor, publicist and
novelist was shot six times today as
he approached the Princeton club by
Fitzhugh Coyle Goldsborough, a Har-
ward man. who Immediately after
wards committed suicide Phillips is
at the Bellevue hospital in a critical
condition with "chance for life."
The body of Goldborough, whose
career at Harvard was brief. lies In
the morgue.
Apparently insane, he had fam
cied grudge against the author and
sought his life. He was 81 years old
Phillips is 43. He used an automatic
pistol and all six shots fired at Phil
lips took effect, the first in the abdo-
men, another in the right lung, a
third in the left breast, fourth in
the right thigh. and two of them
dropped from the wounded mans
clothing as he was being undressed
at the hospital. The most dangerous
wound is that through the lungs.
At Residence OF Stanford White
The shots broke the quiet of one
of the most aristocratic neighbour
hoods of New York. The Princeton
club. formerly the home of the late
Stanford White, fronts on Grammacy
park. At two o'clock while Phillips,
was sauntering along between
the National Art club where he lives
and the Princeton club, Colds
borough approached from the oppo-
site direction.
There was no argument as they
met, no quarrel, no opportunity for
self defense. The shiny barrel of the
pistol glistened in the sunshine and
the patter of six shots punctured the
air. Phillips staggered but did not
fall He lurched against ,the iron
railing with one hand to his body
and the other grasping for support.
Satisfied he had been successful, the
assailant fired seventh shot into his
brain and toppled over before any
one could reach him.
Long Before Identified.
For hours, his unidentified body
lay in the sunshine with only a
| sheet to cover it, A policeman, two
bystanders and several members Of
the Princeton club ran up. and car
ried Phillips into the house. 1t was
sometime before an ambulanc ar
rived and in the meantime club
. members were trying to identify the
i assailant. This later was done by
William e. McCombs, secretary of
the Princeton club, who recognized
+: the man as Fitzhugh Goldsborough,
/ a member of an old and respected
Maryland family. McCoombs said
/ Goldsborough attended Harvard,
leaving there at the end of his fresh
man year.
| Perhaps a Socialist.
| Harrison Phillips, David Graham
younger brother, said Goldsborough
had been bothering David with let
ters and phone calls for a month or
six weeks but his brother never had
been able to learn what the mans
grievance was. He thought perhaps
they met at some socialist gathering
and that Goldsborough had insisted
that Phillips ought to "do something
for the cause"
Phillips sister said Harrison must
be mistaken as she did not believe
David knew the man at all. When
one Of the members Of the Princeton
club asked David who shot him
Phillips answered II don't know"