Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-02-04
ROSSA'S OUNCE OF LEAD.
HIS RECOVERY CERTAIN AND
HIS FOE HELD FOR TRIAL.

/ No 1TSpIuALlOn manifested Dy the Pr1a-
Oner-MOre Doubts Raised as to Her
Sanity-The British Authorities Not
to Interfere Unless Appealed to by
Their COuntrywOman.
NEW YORK, Feb. 3.-The Headquarters
of ODOnOvan ROssa's paper have been
temporarily removed to the Chambers
Street Hospital, where its editor-in-chief
lies to-day with the bullet from Mrs.
Dudley's pistol still imbedded in his
back. Rossa's office in Centre street was
closed to-day. The physicians at the
hospital thought that ROssa had improved
in condition during the night. The only
visitor to ROssa up to IL O'Clock this
morning was his secretary, Patrick joyce.
Mrs. Rosa went to her home in Brooklyn
late last night, and had not returned this
morning up to the hour mentioned.
Mrs. Dudley was taken this morning
from the statiOnhOuse where she had
been confined during the night TO the
TOmbs Police Court. A number of people
gathered at the stationhouse, and followed
the officer and his charge while they
walked to the court house. When the
court was reached Mrs. Dudley was con-
Quoted into the private examination room.
where she remained until her case was
called by Justice Patterson. Arthur C,
Butts, lawyer, accompanied the accused
to court.
BUTTS PARTICIPATION.
When the fact of the presence of the
prisoner became known the hall of justice
became rapidly occupied, until entrance
was denied to later cOmers. The in
closure reserved for lawyers was
occupied by number of these
gentlemen, several politicians, and a
swarm of reporters. When Mrs. Dudley
entered, the gaze of every person in the
room was riVeted on her tace. She walked
calmly to the bar between the officer and
| lawyer, and after looking for moment in
the Justices face, let her eyes fall to the
floor. She looked trife tired, after hay-
ing spent the night in the station house.
| but her cheeks were still rosy and her
! eyes quite bright. Later Mr.. Butts pre-
| sented the case. He said that he had re-
| ceived dispatch late last night signed
| z. Edwards asking him to defend Mrs.
| Dudley.
| THE DISPATCH BOGUS.
He went to the station house and saw
Mrs. Dudley. She said she knew nothing
about the dispatch but she desired him
| by the morning papers to-day that the
dispatch was a bogus one. j. Pierre
| pOnt Edwards, the British Consul denied
| having sent any dispatch whatever. Mr..
| Butts said that he had not been
consulted by any of Mrs. Dudley's friends
and did not know what be should do in
| the case. He continued, ''She told me
that she desired me to defend her
| While reserYing my right as counsellor
| to act In the case or withdraw | shall en-
| deavor to do what will be for Mrs. Dud-
| ley's best interest. For the present nv
client will be mute. She neither pleads |
guilty nor not guilty."
The court remarked that she would be
held to await the result of Rossa's injury
and remanded her.
MRS. DUDLEY's NONCHALANCE.
When Mrs. Dudley turned to leave the
courtroom smile played upon her face. |
She drew her cloak about her and walked |
calmly out OF the room behind the officers,
The house surgeon Of the Chambers Street |
Hospital sent a communication to the |
court stating that on an examination of |
Rossa's wound he found that the ball en- |
tered over the centre of the left scapula, |
taking an inward and inward course,
and passing beneath the skin for four |
inches. This morning ROssa was in good |
condition, having passed a comfortable |
night and slept quietly. He was suffering |
no pain and no unfav0rable symptoms |
had developed yet
Mrs. Dudley was locked I'D in a |
cell at the Tombs. She refused |
to say anything to reporters, writing |
TO them that she had been so advised by !
her counsel. Mr.. Butts, her counsel, was |
special County Judge and Surrogate in |
Sullivan county, n. Y, from 1872 to 1879. |
BRITISH ACTION.
j. PferrepOnt Edwards, the British Con-
sui, was asked to-day if the British rem |
resentatlyes would take any action rela-
tive to Mrs. Dudley's case. He replied |
that he did not know why the British |
authorities should act voluntarily in the
matter. If Mrs. Dudley claimed British
protection it would be given her, The
consulate would advise Mrs. Dudley if
she asked their aid as British subject.
MRS. DUDLEY's SANITY.
IL has been made public that Mrs Dud-
ley was regarded here as eccentric. ifnOt |
actually insane. She ATTEMPTED suicide
on railroad train on one occasion by
taking poison. After a short imprison-
meut for this she was released through
executive clemency.
Surgeons at the Chambers Street Hos
pital have decided not to remove the
bullet from O'DOnovan ROssa's body until
be is stronger. They cannot say definitely
when this Will be. ODOnOvan's condition
this evening is unchanged from that of
early morning.
Mrs. Dudley applied to Police Captain
Copeland several times last week for a
permit to carry revolver.
PHELAN's FEARS.
The Chambers Street Hospital authOri-
ties agreed with Capt. Phelan that he
would be safer somewhere else, as the
hospital is thrOnged with Rossa's friends
every day, and an attack was apprehend-
ed from them by Capt. Phelan. The lat
ter was removed tonight to the New York
Hospital, where he will remain until he
is able to appear against his assailant.
MYSTERIOUS EXPLOSION.
A loud explosion took place at the foot
OF Delaney street about s o'clock tonight.
and created intense excitement for some
time, as it was attributed to dynamite.
When the police reached the scene they
could only find bundle of burning rags.
The explosion is involved in much mys-
terry.
THE PAPERS SELLING LIKE WILDFIRE.
LONDON, Feb. 3.-Extra editions of the
newspapers containing cable dispatches
from New York, giving details of the
shooting of ROssa, are selling like wild
1re on the streets in every city and town
throughout Great Britain. Nearly every
person seems jubilant over the announce
ment that the alleged chief of the dyna-
miters had some of his own medicine given
him.
MRS. DUDLEY UNKNOWN AT CHELSEA,
The officials at the Chelsea Hospital.
where soldiers widows are trained as
nurses, express surprise at the state
ments cabled from New York that Mrs.
Dudley claimed to have graduated as a
nurse at that institution. They say that
no woman of her name or description was
ever trained there. Several news
papers have identified Mrs. Dudley
with a woman named Lucilla Dud-
ley, who was found insensible in
car of the Great Eastern Railroad
from the effects of chlorOform, and who,
upon restoration to consciousness, at
tempted to swallow morphine. The de-
scriptiOn and history of this woman tally
very closely with the description of Mrs.
Dudley in New York, and with certain
parts of her history as related by herself.
The chaplain of the prison in which she
was confined has started for New York |
for the purpose of identifying her.
At Dublin the Irish Nationalists are
circulating a report to the eff ct that
Mrs. Dudley was in the pay of the
English Government, and that she was |
sent to New York by the London police.
ROSSA TO Re SHETVED