The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-01-24
eyofessionaI Violin Teacher Was the
Man Who Tried to Assassinate
Phillips, The
Author.
WOUNDS ARE SERIOUS
No Reason Known Why coldsborouah
Tried to Take the Life Of
Man Whom He
Attacked.

ham Philips, novelist and magazine
writer, was shot six times and prob
ably mortally wounded in front of
the home of Schuyler Scheiffin. 115
Gramercy Park, North, just as he was
about to enter the former home OF
Stanford White, now the Princeton
club, for his mail The shots were
dred by Fitzhugh Goyle Goldsborough
q professional violinist, who was a
former student in the academic school
Of Harvard but who OF late has been
rooming on the top floor OF the Rar :
School Of Social Science, where .,e
has been giving violin lessons when
not writing verse. After shooting
Phillips, Goldsborough shot himself
IN the right temple and dropped dead
Phillips relatives say he has a
chance for life" Goldsborough was
81 years old, Phillips is 43.
What caused Goldsborough. who
was waiting near the entrance to the
Princeton club at an hour when Mr..
Phillips usually calls, to fire the shots
is not known. When the wounded
man was carried into the club he
stu was conscious. and when asked
whether he knew the man who shot
him Phillips answered that he did not
Later In the day, however. 1t was
learned from Harrison W. Phillips. a
brother Of David Graham phillips,
that for some time the wounded man
aas been receiving letters. notes,
'elegrams and telephone calls Of a
threatening and abusive nature not
oniy at his home in the National Arts
Club, but at the Princeton club.
Harrison Phillips said no name was
attached to these communications
but that in view of the shooting he
supposed Goldsborough had sent
them.
Or. George g. Maurer also saiu
mat about nine months ago. while
Soldsborough was rooming in DR..
hanrer's home, Goldsborough had
complained to the physician that he
mad grndge against certain writ.
er" and added vague story about
eeing harmed by this writer In a mag.
anne article some time ago. Dr.
aaurer said Goldsborough always had
impressed him as being mentally
weak.
When Mrs. Carolyn Frevert, a sis
'er OF Mr.. Phillips. who lived with the
Novelist In studio apartment at the
National Arts Club, saw her broth
e. at Bellevue hospital not long af
.ef the shooting, she asked Mr.
tmilips II he knew why he had been
snot He answered that he did not
men ne began to tell Mrs. Frever,
mat he had received a telegram of 4
mysterious nature
It was addressed to me and also
hshed with my name. the wounded
hian began He tried to tell his sis
er tne nature of the telegram. bu,
became unconscious before she coult
earn what the sender OF the tele
gram had to say.
Two members of the Princeton
IL
slup, Newton James, broker. ant
frank Davis, mining engineer. were
wmlng out of the club when they no
,Vea Mr. Phillips walking towart
mem Also, they remember that {
man was standing near the iror
,ehce In front of the scheiffin house
aey had just recognized Phillip.
.heh the man beside the fence begar
= nre at Philips. The novelist stag
sered toward the fence and tried to
weep himself from falling.
There you co. said the assailant
az ne opened fire. "and here go.
Ae echoed as he sent a bullet into hi.
oWn brain. He used an automatic
p,slol' and all six shots aimed a
.,n'iilps took effect. One of them per
.vfased the abdomen; another pierced
ae right lung and came out at the
.ack third shattered the left wris
ahd fourth drilled the right thigh
so OF them dropped from the wound
y y mans clothing as he was being
anuressed at the hospital Policemen
ns'e 100 feet distant when the shoot
ing took place.