Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1911-01-24
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q Graham phillips, the novelist, was
shot six times today as ne ap'
proached the Princeton club, by F1tz.
hueh Coyle Goldsborough, q Harvard
man. who Immediately after commit
ted suicide. =, Tonight Phillips Is at
bellevue hospital in an extremely:
critical condition, but as relatives
hopefully express it, with a chance
for life" The body of Goldsbor-
ouxh, whose career at Harvard, was
brief. lies in the morgue. Appar-.
emily insane he had fancied grudge
against the author and sought his
life. He was 81 years old, Phillips
is 49,,
Phillips Shot Six Times.
"There you 60" snapped the assail.
ant, AZ he opened fire, 'and mere !
co." he retorted, as he sent bullet
into his own brain. He used q ten
shot 80 caliber automatic pistol. One
shot perforated Phillips abdomen,
another pierced the right lung and
came out at the back, the third shat
tered the left wrist and the fourth
drilled the right thigh. Two bullets
dropped from the wounded mans
clothing as he was being undressed
at the hospital. The most danger
ous wound is thought to be that
through the lung. Septicaemia or
pneumonia are the two secondary
effects most feared. ,...s,s ~
First 1nouaKfs Tor Mother,
The robust constitution OF the pa
+&ant bore him through the loss OF
HOOD and shock we'll, and his first
request to his physicians was tnat
m alarming reports be given out:
"My mother" he said, 'is an old lazy
and tha shock. might kill her. I'm
:" rc,,ns selsl snd stTonR. srd may get well:
Make the best Of it and I'll try tol
bear you out"
Phillips Bothered for Weeks.
Harrison w. Phillips, younger
brother of the wounded man, SAID
that Goldsborough had been bother
Ing David with letters and telephone
calls to the Princeton club Tor
month or six weeks, but that his
brother had never been able to learn
what the mans grievance was. He
thoueht perhaps they had met at
some socialistic gathering and that
Coldsborough had insisted Phillips
ought to "do something for the
cause"
First Literary Work..
David Graham Phillips was born In
Madison, Indiana, on OctoDer 81,
1867, and graduated first at DePau"
university and later from Prnceton'
with the class of 'S7. His frst ht'
erary work was done as a reporter
for the New York Sun, which ne
left to become editorial writer tor
the New York World. While still
with the World, he published IN 1901
his first novel, 1.-The Great God Sue.
cess" It brought him royalties and
he resigned from newspaper work to
devote himself to fiction and maya
zines. For q time he wrote many
editorials for the Saturday Evening
Post of Philadelphia, as we'll as
signed special articles. He Is un.
married. Phillips was methodical
workman and his books followed one
another with regularity at a rate OF
two a year. He did most Of his
writing in the early morning before
luncheon and usually composed when
Stan01n& up At AISu ueSh. 1Io
daily work was done and he was just !
strolling over to the club for little
recreation when he was shot.
Assassin Was vioIinlst.
,Pittsburg, Pa, Jan. 23.-Fnzhugh
G.. Goldsborough, who shot David Gra-
ham Phillips in New York today, was
q violinist with the Pittsburg orches.
ira up to the time it disbanded last
March, and was looked upon as an
unusually highly cultured man. He
displayed a highly nervous tempera-
menf during his residence here and