The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1885-02-05
o,DONOvAN ROSA,
THE IRISH DYNAMITER, SHOT BY A
WOMAN.
Five Shots Fired, One Taking Effect
in the Shoulder.
The Interstate Commerce Bill Passes
the Senate.
O,DonOvna KossA Shot.

quick, sharp reports of 9 pistol.
In moment there was great excite
uens, . man had fallen on the sidewalk
bleeding and began groaning. and 9
woman was walking awsy from him
with the smoking pistol still in her
hand.
The man lying on the sidewalk was
the notorious
O'DoNovAN ROSA
and the woman proved later to be Yseult
Dudley. Chambers street runs just
north Of the City Hall park. and at the
northeast corner of Chambers street and
broadway il the well known Stewart
marble stone building. It was about
midway of the Chambers street side of
The building that the shooting took place.
The couple were walking toward Broad
way. They were on the east side OF
Broadway. Across on the west side,
aome distsnce down the block, Is Rossa's
once, where Capt. Phelan was so nearly
killed three weeks ago, and still further
west on the same street is the Chambers
street hospital. Rosa was picked up
and taken down there al once, where he
is new lying on cot close 10 that OF
Phelan's.
THE WOMAN WAS IMMEDIATELY AR
RESTED
by City Marshal James McAuley and
taken to the Twenty-sixth Precinct sta
ton house, which Is inside the city hall.
When arralgned at the sergeant's desk
the revolver, q 80 -caliber f1ve-shOoter,
was handed to the sergeant. A citizen
who entered the police station with the
prisoner said she had just shot man in
Chambers street.
ado Won know the manf'' asked Ser
geant Case, turning TO the woman. YES,
1 shot O'Donovan Rosa" said the prls-
oner, with q slight English accent. She
looked very demure and pretty as she
stood at the bar and
BETRAYED NO EXCITEMENT
whatever. She gave her name as
Yseult Dudley and said she was ma
| tive Of England and q hospital nurse by
occupation. She described herself as q
widow So years of age. but she does not
| appear to be oyer 10. A number OF
| questions were put TO her while at the
| police station, but she preserved dig
| nified silence. She was locked up and
| ali reporters were denied admission for
| the present. Later she was taken to the
| Oak street station. She wore q black
dress, . long black dolman cloak
| trimmed with fur, and black straw hat
trimmed with velvet feathers. She is
pure blonde, weighs abount 100 pounds,
and IL more than ordinarily good look
ing. When she signed her name at the
police station she
DID IT WITHOUT A TREVOR,
her handwriting indicating that she is
educated. Not only her mode OF
speech, but her style Of dress and the
manner in which she was dressed be-
tTayed the fact that she had not been
long from England. When asked
WHY SHE HAD DONE THE SHOOTING.
she simply replied: because he was
O'Donovan Rosa and am an English
woman" 1t was her first shot that took
| effect As soon Is she had fired that
she discharged her pistol four times at
the PROSTATE form, but the bullets all
| failed of their mark and struck the hard,
smooth rock of the broad pavement.
Rosa vas soon raised up by couple
| of bystanders and walked between them
TO the Chambers street hospital, which
| vas three blocks away. When he got
there he looked very pale and was bleed
ing good deal. He was Immediately
| stripped down 70 the waist.
The coroner was sent for, and the doc
tor went to probing for the bullet, which
had entered just below the sh ouldeF
blade and ranged upward. He did not
complain Of much pain.
EoesA's STATEMENT.
Rosa is In the Chambers street hospl-
| tai, where he made the following state
meni TO Coroner Kennedy:
Saturday, January 81, about 3 p. m,
! received letter ct my Office on Cham
bers street. The message WAS in writ
| lag and delivered by q messenger boy.
The note stated that lady wished TO
see me; that she was interested In the
Irish cause and desired to assist 1t; she
did not care TO 60 to my office and re-
main waiting there until I came; she
would only ask for ten minutes time.
telegraph Office IN the Stewart building
Broadway and Chambers streets. l
went with him and met her. told
her il would be well to go to some
hotel. &c the telegraph Office
was no place to talk in. We came out
and went to SWeeneY's hotel. We went
into the ladies parlor and she said she
would be able TO give me considerable
money If any good WAS done. She then
said abe would call Monday, February
2. 1t O'Clock. To-day she sent another
UlC86tAkS " U1Y OlICC ou0 = NCAb ~ BAC
same telegraph Office and there / met
the lady. She showed q paper which l
was to sign. Then suggested We 60 to
some place. We walked down Cham
bers street toward Broadway, when the
woman stepped back and fired two or
three shots ct me. One Of the balls en-
tered my back.
ISigned]
JEREMIAH O'DoNovAN Rosa.
Soon after making this statement
O'Donovan rested easier and said he was
hopeful OF pulling through all right.
To Q reporter Rosa said SIT was G
premeditated affair, and this woman was
simply the engine by which the das-
no private revenge to crafty. ne rela-
tive Of hers has been injured in the
EnRliah explosions. It u the
WORK o. TIE EEGLIeH GOVERNMENT,
whole policy always has been TO assas-
sinate the men they could not otherwise
reach. She IL a agent Of the British
minister or somebody else. This woman
came to me and said that she was Irish
but that her husband did not sYmpathize
with the cause Of Ireland. She was
| broad In
HEB VIEWS on DYNAMITE
She said the London explosions were no
good and wanted Q horrible sac
rifce Of life to strike TO the heart
Of Ireland's enenies. l told her was
not engaged in the business and I re-
ceived no money for such purposes, bat
only TO help the Irish cause. She reit-
Grated that
| TH0U8AH[DS OF LIVES SHOULD BE sA CRI-
FtCKD
| in London. AZ had been to see my
printer ct O'Clock, when started out
| to meet her. She wanted me TO sign 9
receipt for money. The receipt cen.
/ tanned the word dynamite, and de-
cIined to sign it. put the paper in my
| pocket and walked out with her. She
| IL nothing more or less than an agent Of
the BrItish government employed 70 As
| aaasina4e me-" Patrick joyce, the
| trusted lieutenant Of Rossa, came 70 hil
chief shortly after Rosa was wounded
i Rosa turned over 70 him ali his papeFI
snd amoag them were the letters from
Hrs Dudley. Joyce was loud in his de.
nuncia&1On Of the cOWardly attempt e
slauGhter the great dyDemitef, and
charged that it was 'tEng1snd's work" q
once. OF course Il was the outcome of 1
conspiracy on the part Of England 70 I'D
the world Of Rosa, whom she breads
and fears. There was no question bu
what friende Of England. In New York
1 Knew Eli auoob so6 p4os n1o Inc WO0o4
vas the tool selected to carry It into ex
ecufioa- They selected the woman fol
The deed.
NEW YoRK, Feb. S.-The headquar
tefB Of O'Donavan Rosea's paper havl
beec temporarily removed 70 tie Cham
beFs street hospital where Its edItor-in
chief lies so-ceY. With the bullet iron
j Hrs. DudIey's pistol still embodied ID
his back. R0ssa's ofice IN Centre stree
e closed to-dsy. The physicians ss tn
hospital think that Rosse has improves
during the night The only visitor b
Rosa up 20 II O'Clock this morning va
his secretary, Patrick Joyce. Mn
Rosa went homo late last night and hs
Enot returned this morning.
NM Dudley was taken this moFnin