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Show A BRAVE FIGHT ENDS IN DEATH David Graham Phillips has lost his brave fight for life. He died in Belle-vue Belle-vue hospital late Tuesday night, a victim vic-tim of Fitzhugh Coyle Goldsborough, an eccentric and emotional musician, who, although of refined tastes and aristocratic southern stock, shot the novelist down yesterday for a fancied grievance and then killed himself. Phillips fought valiantly to live, but six bullet holes were too much, even for his grit and sturdy constitution, and at 11:10 o'clock he died. He was conscious up to within a quarter of an hour of his death. At the bedside were his sister, Mrs. Carolyn Frevert; his brother, Harrison W. Phillips, his personal physician. Dr. Eupene Fuller, and Dr. Donovan of Belleyue The immediate cause was hemorrhage of the right lung, which had been pierced by one of the steel-clad steel-clad bullets from Goldsborough's automatic auto-matic pistol. Mr. Phillips was born in Madison, Ind., in 1867, was a Princeton graduate and unmarried-. He was one of the Indiana group of story tellers which includes in-cludes Booth Tarkington, George Ade, Meredith Nicholson, Charles Majors and others. He had written 20 novels many "best sellers" among them and numerous magazine articles. His father was David Graham Phillips, Phil-lips, a banker" His mother is now liv ing in Los. Angeles. Besides Mrs. Freveet, the sister with whom he had made his home in New York City; there i a secrnd sister, Mrs. McLeland, liv-i liv-i iR in Indiana, and a third; Mrs. Oliver Kinzey living in Georgia. |