Cheyenne transporter. [volume] (Darlington, Indian Terr.) 1879-1886, 1885-01-30
AN EXCITING SCENE.
Captain Thomas Phelan, of Kansas City, AS
saulted I'm O'Donovan Rossa's Quar-
tera

OF No. IL Chambers street, in which
building is located the office of O'Don-
ovan Rossa and the United Irshmen.
In few seconds afterward man COW
cred with blood tottered down the
stairs to the hallway and sank on the
front stoop, while his blood covered
the sidewalk in stream. Most in
tense excitement at once took place
and crowds flocked to the scene.
Several officers rushed up and seeing
a few men making towards Chambers
street and the city hall, followed them.
One of them, a tall man, was captured
and brought back to where the dying
man was lying.
us this the man who stabbed youp"
asked an officer
Eyes, that's the man." said the
bleeding man, "but, by heavens, If I'm
going to die
"I'LL DIE GAME
land there will be two of u.s." With
that and before the bystanders could
realize his intentions he drew re-
volver and fired two shots in rapid
succession at the man standing before
him. One of the balls took effect in
the thigh of his would.be murd erer.
This still further increased the ex-
citement and the neighborhood be-
came wild with all sorts of rumors.
The man who was stabbed proved to
be Captain Thomas Phelan of Kansas
City, aged 40, and his assailant, whom
he says stabbed him. gave his name as
Richard Short, Sol Tenth avenue.
The ambulance was summoned and
Phelan taken to Chambers street
hospital, dying.
He is stabbed in the neck and breast
and several other places. There were
rumors that he gave away some of the
secrets of the fenian organization.
A printer named Schmidt, who has
composing room on the same floor
next to O'Donovan Rossa's office,
said:
II was standing at my work; sud-
denly heard noise in Rossa's office
with the upsetting of table, and loud,
angry words and curses. This con-
tinued for some seconds, when some-
thing heavy was thrown against the
wall. A man cried out something that
sounded like help, but am not sure
whether that was the word or not
Then the door was banged open and
four men ran down stairs, each trying
to push the other out of his way.
BLOOD WAS TRICKLING
down the face of the last man. They
were half way down when the man
with the blood running down his face
got ahead of the others. l then ran to
and opened the window of our Office
which looks out on Chambers street.
Then saw the man with blood on his
face fall on the sidewalk, put his hand
to his hip pocket, pull out revolver and
fire at one of the three men, which one
l can't tell, as i did not get a good
look at him. | think, however, he
must have been shot because he pulled
up his coat, placed his hand to his
back and stumbled forward as if he
was going to fall on his face. A po-
liceman standing on the corner caught
him by the shoulder and arrested him.
"A great crowd of people gathered
around the man lying on the sidewalk,
and several tiremen came running
down the street and did something fol
him in the way of dashing water in his
face and giving him whisky"
"Did you see O'Donovan Rossa
among tho four men," Mr.. Schmidt
was asked.
81 can't say did"
The police claim to have
LETTER FROM ROSA
to the wounded man, telling him t.
come on to his Office; that he had i'm
portant business for him to attend to
Phelan was asked by Fireman Cottrel
if he wanted minister or priest.
mo" he replied. II don I wan
anybody. l don't believe in any re
lgion. | am n follower of Bob Inger