The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1911-01-25
PHILLIPS DIED OF
HIS SIX WOUNDS
LAST NIGHT
Constitution Could Not Endure
Repeated HemOrrhages
CONSCIOUS TO THE LAST
Well Known Writer Shot Down on
Street Monday by Crazy Mu-
stefan

New York, Jan. 25.--Davld Graham
Phillips, fhe novelist, who was shot
six times on Monday afternoon in
front of the Princeton club by Fitz-
hugh Coyle Godsborough, died in
Bellevue hospital at 11:10 O'Clock last
night.
With him at the end were his sis
ter Mrs. Carolyn Frevert, who kept
house for him at his apartments in
the National Arts club; his brother,
Harrison C. Phillips, newspaper man
OF Denver, who got here unannounc-
ed almost at the hour his brother was
shot, and his physician, DR.. Eugene
Fuller Of 252 Lexington avenue.
Mr.. Phillips had been in great pain
all day, particularly from the wound
in his stomach. He also had suffered
much from nausea, the after effects
OF the anaesthetic administered on
Monday afternoon. He had a high
temperature and the nausea was so
distressing that he could retain moth
ing on his stomach all day.
Up to 8 o'clock last night DR.. John
b. Walker, the operating surgeon,
thought Mr. Phillips had fighting
chance to live. About $3.50 o'clock,
however, he was induced 10 take a
little beef broth, as he had become
very weak. He was unable to retain
this, and soon afterward internal
hemorrhages started from both the
stomach and the right lung, which
had been punctured by bullet. From
that time on he had hemorrhage af
ter hemorrhage and became weaker
with each loss OF blood.
Mr.. Phillips was conscious up to
within 25 minutes of his death. He
fully realized that the hemorrhages
would kill him If they continued and
said so. DIR. Fuller made every effort
to stop them. Mr.. Phillips himself
saw the futility of the attempts and
remarked bravely that II was no use.
Efforts to find motive for the
shooting OF Mr.. Phillips by the violin
teacher and poet, who afterward kill
ed himse I, were fruitful OF some in
teresting results Members OF the
authors family are inclined to the be-
lief that Goldsborough sought to
avenge fancied wrong done him In
some of the authors books, especially
In the novel The Fashionable Adven'
lures OF Joshua Craig" 1t was de-
clared by DR.. Edmund X. Goldsbor-
ough the suicides father, who lives
in Washington, that Mr.. Phillips and
his son knew each other, and he be-
lIeves that they were not on good
terms.
Harrison c. Phillips. the Denver
newspaper man and brother OF the
author, who reached the city at al
most the same hour that his brother
was shot, said last night that he was
nearly convinced that the Joshua
Craig story had been the one TO IN
flame Goldsborough's mind. More
than once, It is asserted, Goldsborough
referred to this novel as containing
references TO him and to other men,
bers OF his family. In fact II is as
serted that he, apparently in a dlsor-
dered state OF mind thought he saw
himself In the portrayal Of Joshua
Craig, and one of his sisters In Mar
garet, the Washington society girl,
who is the heroine of the story.
The conviction that he had been
wronged by this publicity, combined
with what is often called the exagger-
ated ego. In the absence OF stronger
motive. are believed by Harrison G.
Phillips and others who spent yester-
day in active investigation OF Colds
borough's past In this city to lie back
OF the murder.