The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-02-03


was temporarily insane on the subject of dyna-
mite as used against her country.
Z The matron of the Mrs. Leggett Home did not
know who or where Dr. Thomas or Thompson
was, to whom Mrs. Dudley had referred, but in
vestgation proved that she had referred
to DR.. T. Gaylord Thomas. who lived
at 294 Fifth avenue At his Office it was learned
that about four months ago Mrs Dudley had
come from England, in company with Miss
Chalmers, who is living at AZ Plane street. New
ark, n. j. They had brought diplomas from
foreign hospitals, and Dr. Thomas had sent them
both to DR.. P. F. Chambers, at DIR. Thomas's
private sanitariunl, 598 and GOO Lexington ave-
nue. DR.. Chambers was found at this address,
and in the absence of Dr. Dubois, who has
charge of the institution for Dr. Thomas, stated
that Mrs Dudley and Miss Chalmers came to
him, not from DIR. Thomas, but from Roosevelt
Hospital, where they had been employed. They
we're taken on trial on Nov. 2l and showed
diplomas from London hospitals DR.. Chambers
vas very favorably impressed with Mrs. Dudley,
but she did not work harmoniously with those
In the santarium, and at the end of a month
left without being discharged DR.. Chambers
would have been pleased to have kept Miss
Chalmers, but she went because Mrs. Dudley
was going. The latter extremely patriotic,
though not disparaging America. They left
about Dec. 81.
young nurse at the sanitarium. talked re
suctantly. She had seen Mrs. Dudley's certif-
cate from Charing Cross Hospital, London. She
did not regard Mrs. Dudley as right in her head;
she boasted almost constantly of her ability as
nurse She had once said her youngest child
had been dead two years. She never referred to
her father or mother.
Superintendent James R. Lathrop, of the
Roosevelt House Hospital, said Mrs. Dudley and
Miss Chalmers came there on Oct. 7, and both
left on Nov 10. Mr.. Lathrop was not favorably
impressed with Mrs. Dudley, but he was much
pleased with Miss Chalmers Mrs. Dudley's
service was not satisfactory; she had some ability
as nurse, but was deficient in order; she left
voluntarily, as did Miss Chalmers, and from
Roosevelt Hospital had gone over to DR.. Thomass
sanitarium.
NOTES AND INCIDENTS
Captain Phelan, who is still guarded by a
policeman, when informed of the particulars of
|, the shooting, smiled grimly, but refused to say
anything on the subject.
lie Oulco Oh Cue CHdiHOeFS was
visited by large number of Rossa's friends to-
night, all of them determined-looking chaps, and
they gathered in groups of twos and threes and
discussed in whispers the attempted assassina-
tion Of the ''arch dynamiter." John Roche.
whose dynamite operations have been confined
to speeches in the Fourth ward, furtively eyed
each visitor to the institution, and from time to
time disappeared to talk with parties on the out
side.
Algernon S. Sullivan, public administrator
had read the news in an extra, and dropped in
to see if the story was true. He was not per-
mitted to see Rossa, and vanished shortly after.
w. j. Burke, a pronounced dynamter,
| shouted ''You can kill Rossa but you can't kill
the idea
To a reporter Rosa said: 'It was a premedi-
tated affair, and this woman was simply the
skNgine by which the dastardly work was accom-
| Fiished. She had no private revenge to crafty;
no relative of hers had been injured in the En-
glish explosions. 1t is the work of the English
government, whose police have always been ready
! to assassinate the men they cannot otherwise
| reach. She is 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 rabid in her views on dynamite. She
said the London explosions were no good, and
wanted horrible sacrifice of life, to strike terror
to the heart of 1reland's enemies, J. told her
was not engaged in that business, and
that I received no money for such
| purposes, but only to help the Irish
cause She reiterated that thousands
of lives should be sacrificed in Londoh. l had
been to see my printer at o'clock, when /
started out to meet her. She wanted me to sign
a receipt for money. The receipt contained the
word dynamite, and declined to sign it. ! put
| the paper in my pocket and walked out with her.
She is nothing more or less than an agent of the
British government, employed to assasslnate
| me-"
| Patrick Joyce the trusted lieutenant Of Rosa,
came to his chief shortly after Rosa was wound
ed, and Rossa turned over to him all his papers.
| Among them were letters from Mrs. Dudley.
Joyce was loud in his denunciation of the cow
ardly attempt to slaughter the great dynamter,
and charged that it was "Englands work, at
once. ''Of course" said he, sit was
part of England to rid the world
of Rossa whom she breads and fears there is no
question but what the friends of England in New
York knew all about the plot, and the woman
was tool selected to carry it into execution.
They selected woman for the deed because
they had no man among them brave enough to,
attack him. He has received scores of threat
ening letters, but paid no more attention TO them
than he would to a flea. He is not
dead and England will find it out to her sorrow
soon enough Joyce went to Oak-street station
to see if he could identify Mrs Dudley as an
English woman who had been befriended by
Rosa about year ago. He was refused ad-
mission to her, but when he heard description
of the prisoner, he concluded 1t did not tally
with that of the other woman
Rossas admirers were greatly relieved when
they found his recovery was regarded quite GER
tain.
Walker J. Elliott and Patrick Joyce went to
Brooklyn and broke the tidings of Rossa's at
tempted assassination to his wife. she received
the news calmly, and Immediately started for
New York She reached the hospital at 10 o'clock,
when she was admitted at once to her husbands
bedside Their meeting was quite affecting.