The New York gun-control law that the U.S. Supreme Court declared unconstitutional on Thursday was instituted more than a century ago after a crazed concert violinist turned failed poet shot dead a rising literary star outside the former residence of an eminent architect who had himself been shot dead some years before. The victim whose death gave birth to the strictest gun restrictions in the nation was identified by police as David Graham Phillips, a 43-year-old novelist who had been gaining increasing critical attention. Subsequent newspaper accounts said he was striding up East 21st Street for his daily visit to the Princeton Club at 1:45 p.m. on Jan. 23, 1911, when a man suddenly stepped up and shot him five times. The gunman, who was identified by police as Fitzhugh Coyle Goldsborough—Harvard class of 1903, masterful with a violin, but woefully uninspiring with verse—then shot himself in the right temple. Newspapers reported that his body lay at the curb as passersby carried the mortally wounded Phillips into the Princeton Club. They set Phillips down in the lobby of a building that had been the home of legendary architect Stanford White until he was shot to death five years before. White… Read full this story
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