The Irish standard., 1911-01-28
PHILLIPS IS DEAD TAFT F0RB|DS WAR
FUNERAL SERVICES ARE TO BE
BE HELD FROM THE "LITTLE
CHURCH AROUND CORNER"
BEVERIDGE is IN CHARGE
Colleagues Express Regret on Hear
ing News of Death-Wounded Six
Times by Assassin Fights Gamely
for Life-Assailant's Body Shipped.

New York, Jan. 26-David Graham
Phillips, the novelist. who was shot
six times Monday afternoon by Fitz-
hugh Coyle Goldsborough. a violinist,
in Gramercy park, died here at Belle
vue hospital of hemorrhage Of the
lungs. At his bedside We're his sister,
Mrs. Carolyn Frevert, and his brother,
Harrison Phillips. and DR.. Eugene
Fuller
The funeral will be held. according
TO an announcement. in the Protestant
Episcopal Church Of the Transfigura-
ton, affecuonately known to many
as the Little Church Around
the Corner" The services will
be in charge OF tho Rev. DIR.
George c. Houghton, rector Of the
church, which since Its establishment
has been dedicated to the use of those
who toll In the field Of art and letters.
Arrangements for the burial are all
in the hands of Senator Albert ]. Bev-
eridge. who was one Of the writer's
most intimate friends, who is being
assisted by George Horace Lorimer
editor of the Saturday Evening Post.
and Samuel G. Blythe. Burial Will be
at Greenwood cemetery, Brooklyn.
Phillips died game, sustained by his
splendid will power to the last. He
knew the end was near, yet buoyed
his courage with the oft-repeated
declaration that he would not die. AS
the final moment approached. how
ever, he realized that death was at
hand.
Il could fight two wounds, but not
six. ! fear that the odds are too great
against me" were his last words whis-
pered to DR.. Fuller.
Colleagues Express Regret
Mr.. Phillips death came so late in
the night that many of his colleagues
In literature and business did not
hear Of II until morning AS the news
reached them their personal regret
was increased by their feeling, OK
pressed almost unanimously In the
brief statements which they gave out
that he had been killed at the begin
ming of n career that meant much for
American letters. They dwelt pnrticu-
larly on the promise that he had
shown and the certainty that he was
likely to give expression more and
more to the ideals of the men among
whom he lived.
Start Assassin's Body to Capital.
1t was curious coincidence that
while Mr.. Phillips was breathing his
last In his hospital room, a silent pro
cession from a nearby undertnker's
was carrying the body of his assassin,
FHtzhugh Coyle Goldsborough, to the
railway station In Jersey City The
coffin, with it's strange load Of tragedy.
was put aboard a train at midnight
and was shipped to Washington,
where the young fanatic will be bur
led tomorrow.
That Mr.. Phillips assailant was de-
mented appears to have been demon
! stratcd conclusively, not only by the
curious testimony Of his diary and
notebooks but also by his appeals to
Mayor Gaynor's secretary and other
officials for protection from persons
he believed were bounding him. En-
! tries in the diary showed that he had
! translated to personal abuse the nll-
thor's picturesque characterization of
class in his novel on Washnpton's
life. '"rhe Adventures Of Joshua
Craig" and under this misconstrllc-
ton had conceived n homicidal mania
of which the victim wns unaware.