New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-01-24

lenned heavily against it for support
John Jacohy. a florist, of No. . last
10Th street. who happened 70 be pass
Ing at the time, rushed forward anu
helped him.
There YOU arew shouted the assail-
ant. according TO the story that Jacopy
told tho police afterward. and then nc
turned the nuzzle Of the revolver TO his
own right temple. mutterins' mere :
co. he fred at himself and Immediately
rolled over into the gutter, dead.
II happened that just at that moment
two Of Phillips's eliminates. Newton
James. a mining engineer, LIVING AT 'hS
waldorf. and Frank Davis. a STOCK
broker. Of No. Is Grau1ercy Park both
of the class of '07 at Princeton, were
coming out Of the club. They, too mas
tened 10 the help OF the wounded man.
and with Jacoby carried him into inc
FOYER Of the club. seating him there IN d
huge arm chair.
Eyewitness on the Shooting
we saw Phillips coming from the d.
rectiou Of Fourth avenue" said James
q few, minutes after tho shooting, nut
rro did not notice tho other man. Now
that Il Is called 10 my attention u
course I have vague idea that he was
walking the other way; but II may ne
that he was lying in wait for his Nlcu'i
IN the vicinity OF the club. Suddenly we
heard number Of shots. and for the
Nrs, time we noticed the two men To-
rether. Phillips was staggering toward
the fence. and the other man was IN inc
act Of putting the revolver TO his hesu'
The next moment he fred. We didn I
nav any attention 10 him. but ran 10
Phillips. whom Jacoby was holding.
For Gods sake. get me into build
ing he was saying. Get doctor. Get
Or Eugene Fuller
Who is the man.? I asked him.
"T don't know he responded.
Together We got him into tho club
while a bellboy was telephoning for q
doctor. Phillips kept complaining of his
right arm and saying: Why don
somebody do something? Can't you see
I'm suffering DR.. Fuller, his own
physician. arrived about the same time
that the ambulance from Bellevue
drew up
The wounded man was taken 10 Belle
vue Hospital and placed in Surgical
Ward 50. where superficial examina-
ton was made OF HIS injuries by the
house surgeon. Or. p. f. Donovan. -Four
other surgeons, II. Moses. i. ". Wilds'
G. c. Cody and c. II. Dupin. were In at
tendance. but il was decided not 20 oper-
ate until the arrival of Or. l.. W. Hotch-
kiss, visiting surgeon in charge Of the
X-ray examinations.
Surgeons Find Six Wounds.
The primary examination revealed six
wounds, the most serious Of which was
IN the right breast near the heart. The
others were in the left breast, the thighs.
the right wrist and the abdomen. the
latter apparently Of little consequence
Two bullets dropped from the patients
clothing while Il was being removed
The doctors could not tell at that time
whether these passed through the body
or not.
4 number Of persons called at the hos
lital in the course Of the afternoon.
Among the first was the injured mans
sister. A woman officer OF the National
Arts Club. learning OF the shooting in a
short time, went up 20 tho apartments
Of the Phillipses and told Mrs. Frevert.
Hastily summoning a taxi, the two we're
driven 20 the hospital, where Mrs. Ere
vert was Immediately admitted 70 her
hrother's bedside. before the arrival of
tho Coroner. Later she told that Off
,ial what he said TO her.
lie had received. he said, according 10
her story. that very morning a curious
telegram addressed 70 him and signed,
strangely enough, with his own name.
II was a warming he declared. but think
ing il TO he from some irres ponsible in
dividual. he had torn it up. From time
n time, he said, he had received anony-
nous letters that were of a threatening
nature. but he had never paid much at
tention to them. Before he could give
his sister the contents Of the mornings
telegram he lapsed into unconsciousness
He was still in that condition when the
coroner arrived.
Sister Nearly Frustrated.
Mrs. Frevert is two or three years
younger than her brother 1t was
learned last night at the National Arts
Club that they had been living there for
four or FIVE years. They seemed very
attentive TO each other. II was said, and
rarely mixed with the other people in the
club. Shortly after dusk Mrs. Frevert
returned TO her apartments, posted q
trained nurse at her door and gave or
ders that her bell was not TO be rung
under any circumstances. She was
nearly Frustrated by her brothers con-
dition.
Another visitor at the hospital was
the brother of the writer, Harrison Phil
lips, who arrived from Denver in the
morning. He was lunching with an
artist friend named Forsyth when the
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