The Detroit times., 1911-01-24
PHILLIPS HAS 5000
CHANCE T0REc0vER
Author Shot By Strange Man Who
Kills Self Improves--Some Danger
That Pneumonia May Develop.

an examination by Doctors Donovan.
Walker and Hotchkiss, today. Of
David Graham Phillips. shot yester-
day afternoon, by Fitzhugh Coyle
Goldsborough, Of Washington, IL was
announced at Bellevue hospital that
there had been no untoward develop
menIs and that the injured man has
excellent prospects of recovering. TIE
chief danger Is that pneumonia may
result from the wound In the lung,
but up to the present time there Is
no indication OF this.
The cause of the shooting Is still
a mystery. Relatives and friends or
Goldsb borough insist that his act was
that of an insane person; that he
haa been eccentric from youth and
that he had become obsessed with a
fanciful grievance against the author
over which he brooded until he be-
came insane. Phillips himself says
he. never saw the man to his knowl-
edge, and that SO far as he knows
he never gave him cause for enmity.
A close friend of Phillips, who wac
also acquainted with Goldsborough.
says that the violinist recited an al
legged grievance against the novelist
to him some weeks ago.
HE told me that Phillips had COM
mitted a great wrong" this man told
the police today. But he did not
say whether the wrong was against
him or another person. He left the
impression, however, that IL was
against another and asked me 20
bring him and Phillips together. !
told him Mr.. Phillips was man OF
highest degree of honor and that ]
would not think OF speaking of this
matter to my friend; l also told him
that Phillips knew how to take care
of himself and warned him he would
get in Jail IL he annoyed him."
The police today carefully exam!n-
ed all of Goldsborough's effects in the
hope of securing something that would
throw light on the shooting. They
thought II barely possible that, In
asnuch as Goldsborough had told
another of the alleged wrong, he
might have made written record or
II. Nothing was found. however, to
solve the mystery.
The suggestion made by some OF
Goldsborough's friends that the violin
ist believed Phillips had taken the
Goldsborough family as model for
his book The Fashionable Adyen-
lures of Joshua Craig, was sconed at
by Phillips friends. II was said that
the author did not know the Colds
boroughs at all and that his char
acters in the novel were purely crea-
lures of fancy.
The police are still hopeful, how
ever, that they will be able TO estab-
lish the motive for the shooting. The
fact that Goldsborough sent threaten
ing letters and kilograms to the au-
thor, they say, proves that the really
believed he had grievance.
Phillips retained all OF his nerve
at the hospital today. His intimate
friend, United States Senator Albert
]. Beveridge, OF Indiana, hurried over
from Washington and reached Belle
vue hospital just about daylight TO.
day. He was permitted to see Philips
and the later, fully conscious, smiled
at him and whispered that he was all
right and would soon be we'll again.
Beveridge stayed with him only a
moment or two and then went to a
hotel AS he was leaving the hospi-
tai, he said:
"This is shocking. Mr.. nillips Is
lovable character, and I did not
know he had an enemy In the world.
Beveridge said that he would re-
main here until Phillips is out OF
danger, despite the fact that his pres
ence is urgently needed In Washing
ton.
Mr.. Phillips, was born at Madison,
Ind, Oct. 81, 1867. and was graduated
from Princeton in 1887.
After leaving college he worked for
the Sun and the World and was for
some time London correspondent for
the World
He wrote his first book while he was
with the World, and soon after 1t was
published he gave up his job and
went seriously at the business OF writ
ing novels and articles for the period
icals. "The Great God Success" the
first novel he sold, made a market
for his later books. Thereafter he
turned out fiction steadily and me-
thodically, writing at least one, and
sometimes two novels with pur-
pose" every year.
"The Great God Success" published
in 1901. was followed by Her Serene
lures" 1902; Golden Fleece 1903;
The Master Rogue" 1908; The
Cost" 1904; THE Plum Tree" 1905;
The Social Secretary" 1905; The
Deluge," 1905; The Reign Of Gilt"
1905; 1.-The Fortune Hunter 1906;
1.-The Second Generation" 1907:
Light Fingered Gentry" 1907; "Old
Wives for New" 1908; THE Worth
of a Woman 1908; The Fashionable
Adventures Of Joshua Craig" 1909;
and "The Hungry Heart" 1909.