The Penn's Grove record., 1911-01-27
NOVELIST SHOT
BY A CRANK
Erratic Musician Fires Upon
David Graham Phillips.
ASSASSIN M M SUICIDE
Assassin's Diary Found-shows a
Fancied Grievance Against the
Novelist, Who is Described as
an "Enemy to Society"

New York.-David Graham Phillips.
novelist, died in Bellevue hospital OF
collapse and hemorrhage from bullet
wounds inflicted by Fitzhugh Coyle
G~oldsborough, the crazed violinist who
shot him two days before near the
Princeton club, overlooking Gramercy
park.
At the novelist's bedside when
death came were his sister, Mrs.
Carolyn Frevert; his brother, Harri-
son C. Phillips, and DR.. John B.
Walker.
The last words of Phillips were:
"I a fight two wounds, but not six.
The odds are too great against me"
Conscious until 20 minutes before
the end, Mr.. Phillips was brave to the
last, but he knew death was near.
The literary world has been deeply
stirred over the tragic shooting. Au-
thors focked to the city from out OF
town, profoundly grieved at the tragic
death of the novelist.
The motive that impelled Goldsbor.
ough to the act was peculiarly inter-
esting to them. In the last few years
It has been remarked that ME- in
various walks of life have instituted
suits against authors for having, as
these suitors thought, taken inspira-
ton from incidents in the lives OF
these suitors or their relatives.
Efforts to find a motive for the
shooting of Mr.. Phillips by the violin
teacher and poet, who afterward killed
himself, were fruitful Of some inter-
esting results. Members of the au-
thor's family are inclined to the belief
that Goldsborough sought to avenge a
fancied wrong done him in some OF
the authors books, especially in the
novel. "The Fashionable Adventures
Of Joshua Craig" 1t was declared by
DR.. Edmund K. Go1dsborough, the sui
cide's father, who lives in Washing
ton, that Mr.. Phillips and his son knew
each other, and he believes that they
were not on good terms.
Harrison G.. 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 that he was nearly on
yinced that the Joshua Craig story had
been the one to infame Goldsbor-
sugkss-mina.
That Mr.. Phillips assailant was de-
mented appears to have been demon
strated conclusively by entries in a
notebook taken from the body OF
Goldsborough after his suicide.
From a diary for 1911, in which
Go%ldsborough had been making entries
daily since the beginning of the year
until last Sunday, it was learned at
the district attorneys Office that the
violinist had begun the year by max
ing entries of a rambling nature about
Phillips. Beneath MI. Phillips name
Goldsborough had written the SEN
fences: "He is my enemy" "He is
an enemy to society" 1t appeared
also from the sentences scrubbed over
a period of % days that Goldsborough
had read Mr.. Phillips writings and
that some of them had ~displeased him,
1t was gathered that he particularly
was displeased with intimations that
women of wealth and social position
smoke cigarettes and drink too much
Grief Felt at Goldsborough's Home
Neutrality-suspicious. learning OF Mr.
Phillips death, Miss Frances Colds
borough, sister of Fitzhugh Goldsbor
ough, said:
"On behalf Of my father, mother
and myself, I can only express the
|fmost intense grief because of the oc
currence and the outcome"