Huntsville gazette., 1885-02-07
NEMESIS,
In the Form Of An English Sol
diers Daughter, T
Pursuing O'Donoyan Rossa She Shoots Him
Down On the Street in New York,
Wounding Him Badly-The
WOman's Antecedents.
NEW YORK, February 2.

the Stewart Building, on Chambers
street, by a woman named Lucille Ysuelt
Dudley. The woman was Immediately
arrested, and Rosa was taken to the
Chambers Street Hospital. He was shot
in the back under the right shoulder.
When the woman was brought to the
station-house she handed to the police
sergeant fve-barreled nickel plated
42-caliber revolver, very coolly saying:
III guess they are all empty now."
She had fired five shots, but only one
had taken effect. She said she was
nurse and lived at No. 60 Clinton Place.
She came from England five months ago.
She had an interview with Rosa on Sat-
urday at his Office. She met him to-day
by appointment made by letter from
her to him. 1t is said the letter is now
in the hands of Patrick Joyce, Ressa's
secretary. The woman is handsome, and
very fairly dressed in the style of a we'll
to-do English immigrant. She wore
spectacles and had the appearance OF an
intellectual looking school teacher.
Bystanders who saw the shooting, say
that the woman drew the revolver from
her dress pocket, and leveling it at
Rossa, fired one shot. Rosa threw his
hand above his head and cried:
"l'M SHOT," s
He then fell heavily to the sidewalk.
The woman fired the remaining bullets in
the revolver at the PROSTATE man and
calmly walked away with the smoking
r,rtoI in har hand Z /,
She was followed by a large. crowd,
while still larger mob surrounded the
wounded dynamiter.
City Marshal McAuley saw the pistols In
the woman's hand and arrested her, She
was taken to the Twenty sixth Precinct
Station, the City Hall. Her imperturbable
/ gravity and GOODNESS of demeanor were
remarkable.
When arraigned at the desk, she hand
ed her pistol to the Sergeant.
Marshal McAuley said the woman was
brandishing a pistol in the street. A
citizen who entered the station with the
prisoner said she had just shot man in
Chambers street.
"Do you know the MANI" asked the
Sergeant of the woman.
eyes; | shot O'Donovan Rossa," said
the prisoner, with slight English ac-
cent. ,....
She looked very demure and pretty as
she stood at the bar, and betrayed no ex-
element She gave her name as Lucille
Ysuelt Dudley, and said she was native
of England and a hospital nurse by occu-
patton. She described herself as widow,
| twenty-five years of age, but does not
appear to be over eighteen.
A number of questions were put to her,
but she preserved dignified silence. She
was locked up and all reporters were de-
MED admission to her for the present.
She did not appear to be insane, for she
answered all questions deliberately and
with some degree of caution. She de-
clined to divulge the cause OF the shoot
ing, but it is presumed that it was in re-
venge for the recent dynamite explosions
in London. 49,
When seen at the Chambers Street
Hospital, Rosa was lying quietly on his
cot, which was located only short dis
tance from that of Captain Phelan's.
Rosa said that as he reached the street,
after leaving his Office in Chambers street
at 80 D. m, a woman, without uttering
a word, shot him. The ball penetrated
beneath and to the right shoulder-b blade,
taking an upward course. Rosa said
that the pain was not great, and he hoped
the would-be murderess was satisfied.
| After probing for four minutes, the
physicians decided not to search further
| for the ball. for fear of weakening the
patient. The wound will probably not
prove fatal. There is no immediate
| danger, and the patient is resting quietly.
| Patrick Joyce, Rossa's secretary, ar
| rived at the hospital few minutes after
/ Rosa had been conveyed there. He was
told by Rosa to telegraph for Mrs.
Rosa. But few other people were ad-
mitted.
The report of the shooting attracted
large crowd, among which was ex-
United States Marshal John Centre, who
assisted Rossa to his feet and asked him
| if he could be of any assistance to him.
| Rosa said:
"Pm shot," and without another word
! walked with Centre to the hospital.
! The woman, after doing the shooting
| ran toward Center street, and when op-
posite the District Attorneys office, was
| stopped by Deputy Marshal McAuley
and Judge Callahan. McAuley seized
the woman by the arm. She did not
seem in the least excited and said:
'I shot Rosa, ana If you want me,
will 60 along with you."
McAuley then took her into custody.
When asked what she shot Rosa for,
she said: ~ l-
"Im English, and shot him because
| he is O'Donovan Rossa."
She then asked for glass OF water,
and after thanking the officer she was
placed in cell. s4-~- ls--l ---4.'
At six O'Clock the woman was removed
| 10 the Oak Street Police Station. She
will be arraigned at the Tombs Police
Court. -
The news of the shooting spread like
wildfre, and in less than half an hour
several hundred people had gathered in
front of the hospital anxious to learn
| Rossa's condition. Sass " -.-@c7 go
Tonight Rossa's condition was
considered by the physicians not so favor
| able, and Coroner Kennedy was sent for
to take his ante-mortem statement. The
Coroner arrived at the hospital soon after,
and Rosa, after answering the usual
questions, male in substance the follow
| ing statements