The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1883-03-23
Later.

LONDON, March 10.
Lady Florence Dixie, who was attacked Sat-
urday by two men disguised in women's
clothes, says the men spoke no brogue. She
| remembers seeing her st. Bernard dog drag
one of them backward. The affair is pulling
every one. There is no clew to the assailants.
The gardener potting geraniums thirty yards
from the scene neither saw nor heard any
thing of the occurrence. Lady Florence says
she called to her husband for help. She states
she should be sorry to attribute the outrage to
the Land League.
NEW YORK, March 10.
O'Donoyan-Rossa said to-day he was very
certain that no Irish organization had any
thing to do with the assault upon Lady Flor
ence Dixie Irishmen," he said, "do not
make war upon women" In Dublin Mr..
| Forster's life was spared on many occasions
because he shielded himself behind women
He very much doubted whether the assault
had ever taken place. Lady Dixie was a
crank" and perhaps her love of notoriety
had led her to promulgate the story. But he
| thought it more probable that the base hire
| lings" of the British Government had
| "planned the whole affair for the purpose OF
exciting the British populace against the
Irish
| Mr.. Sheridan, who was seen in the office of
| the Irish World, said: ~ look upon the affair
| as an attempt to disparage the Land League,
and to prepare the public mind for the con-
| templated slaughter of the men who are now
on trial in Dublin. / believe the assault was
| planned by some of the emissaries of Dublin
| Castle. / do not believe that Lady Florence
| Dixie was a consenting party. have too
high an opinion of her to imagine for a mo-
ment that she would lend herself to a purpose
SO VILE Her mother, the Warehouses of
| Queensbury, is one of the most popular
women in Ireland. Lady Dixie has proved
that she at least sympathizes with the Irish
| people. know of no reason whatever why
the Irish people should entertain the smallest
dislike towards her, unless, indeed the
letters which she has recently written
on Land-League matters might be supposed
| to furnish some grounds for hostile feelings
toward her." These letters, in my opinion,
were a severe and perhaps uniustinable crit
| icism of public movement and its officers,
| but at the same time the criticism was par
| donable. If the Government should succeed
| in establishing anything like desperate feel
| ing against the Irish people in England, it
/ would only result in increased destruction Of
/ property and deeds of violence in which the
upper classes will themselves suffer equally
with the Irish. The rabble of the English
cities furnishes all the ingredients necessary
/ for the formation of the most dangerous and
uncomfortable mobs."
| Mr.. Patrick Egan was seen at late hour at
the Grand Central Hotel having just returned
| from Waterbury, Conn., With reference TO
the assault upon Lady Florence Dixie he said
that after reading very carefully all the news
paper reports of the alleged occurrence he
| had arrived at the conclusion that the entire
story is either lie out of whole cloth or that
the unfortunate lady is the victim of an
Authorization. He was certain that no
Irishman would be guilty of a coward
| ly attack upon a defenseless wnman,
and regarded the attempt to. give any
political coloring to the affair as very absurd.
Lady Dixie's recent unjust criticism of the
Land-League leaders had awakened some feel
ing, but it partook rather of pity and con-
tempt certainly not hostility. If it was proven
that the attack really had occurred, he should
| be inclined to regard it as the result of some
family complications. But the whole story
looked highly improbable. If the attack had
occurred, as asserted, either herself or the
dog would bear some marks of the knives. 1t
was hardly possible that the steel of her corset
should have turned aside tw successive stabs
| as she had stated.