Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-01-10
AN ALLEGED TRAITOR LURED
INTO 1T AND STABBED.

| went to kearney's house, No. 452 West TWen-
| ty-ninth street. and the two went at once to
! O'DOnOvan's office. A few minutes after he
| entered that office he was attacked. Cham
| bers street is usually crowded in the after
! who passed No. y were started by the sud
| den appearance on the sidewalk of man
| bleeding from several wounds about the body
| and who fell to the pavement.
THE FLEET AssAILANT.
Just after him came another man, who
rushed dlagonaly across the street and into
| City Hall place. The bleeding man cried
| ''murderW rs strongly as he could, and officer
! Leary, Of the Fourth precinct, was attracted
| to the spot. The officer started after the run
| away. Turning into City Hall place he saw
| no one running, but went up to man whose
| appearance was like that of the man who
| had flown from Chambers street, and ac-
| cOsted him. YOU'RE mistaken, my FRIEND"
said the man, but the officer noticed a spot of
| blood on his trousers, and, drawing his club,
| seized him.
BLOODY HANDS AND PISTOL SHOT.
The man tried to get away, and in doing so
showed two bloody hands. The policeman
| with great trouble took his prisoner back to
| where the wounded man lay. Did this man
| stab your asked Leary, pointing to his pris-
Oner. Phelan raised himself to a half sitting
| posture and let his eyes rest upon the man.
| Then as quick as a flash the PROSTATE man
| drew pistol from his hip pocket and fired it
| at the prisoner. The policeman grabbed for
the pistol, and in his effort to secure it let go
| of the prisoner, who again started to rum His
liberty was not for long. though. He was
| soon retaken andmarched TO the station house,
THE PRISONERS IDENTITY
Here he gave his name as Richard Short, a
butcher, of No. Sol Tenth avenue, and denied
| all knowledge of the stabbng He acted as
one offended by his arrest and spoke no word
except in answer to interrogatories. When
asked how blood came to be on his hands he
replied iusOlenty, with a strong Irish accent:
'Sure, didn't tell you L was a butcher; that's
bloody wOrk,yO know, guess"
The XVOUDn inflicted nv the Di9fO1 shot fred
by Phelan was found to be slight. The bullet
had come from a Red Jacket" 81
calibre revolver and struck the left
side of the abdomen, after penetrat-
ing an Overcoat and other clothing.
and had well spent its force before reaching
the flesh. The prisoner was locked up. An
ambulance took Phelan to the Chambers
Street Hospital. After Surgeon Kirby had
bound up his wounds at the hospital Phelan
said that he was a native of Ireland and AZ
years old.
NATURE OF PHELAN'S INJURIES.
His clothing was cut in several places, un-
der which there was no wound. Four stabs
in the back were slight, two just below either
shoulder were two inches deep, seventh
was in the right side of the neck, another
penetrated the chest. and each arm had re-
celved a thrust, and the right arm was al
most severed at the shoulder The surgeons
said that the assailant must have been a very
powerful man. The patient showed great
tOrtltude during the dressing of his wounds.
COron Martin came to the hospital to take
Jne wounded mans ante mortem statement.
PHELAN'S STATEMENT.
Phelan said that he would give a true story,
and proceeded; ION last Sunday week an in
terview between myself and the local editor
of the Kansas City JOUrnaJ was published in
the journal. The paper is now in my pocket.
l afterwards received letter from John f.
kearney asking me to come to this city. l
telegraphed him that would be here on Jan.
8. When / arrived to-day | called on Kear-
ney and together we went to O'DOnovan
yu9 0nf in an
named Rocky Mountain O'Brien came IN
while we were there. He shook hands with
me in friendly way, and asked how was.
THE ATTACK.
she then left and a man. whose name
think Is Barker, came IN with knife IN his
hand. He Immediately approached and struck
at me about the chest. | was seated in a chair
at the time and warded off the blow. He
made more thrusts and stabbed me several
times. 1 spraDg to my feet and ran down
stairs. Barker followed me and cut me again
and again. On the street Barker was brought
before me.
WHY HE FIRED.
81 recognized him as the man who stabbed
me, and suppOsing that he would stab me
again l shot him. 1 first met Barker on my
return from Europe in August or September
last. 1t was in ROssa's office. | met him
there afterwards. Kearney anc two other
men who don't know were present when l
was assaulted"
The identity of the two men spoken of
3
fed when the butchcry began. O'Donovan
ROssa's offices are on the third floor of the
building, which is an old structure, and occu-
pied by people of various occupations Rosa
has two rooms.
SCENE OF THE ATTACK.
The assault occurred in the larger room. In
this an overturned chair and spilled bottle of
ink were signs of the struggle. There were
also numerous spots of blood on the walls and
floor. Along the walls of the stairway more
blood blOtches were seen. The police found
the knife with which the crime was COM
mitted on the top step of the second flight.
Its blade was five inches long, and sharpened
on both edges. The handle was wound with
twlne to give 1t tirmer grasp. Police Captain
webb and his officers are hot after additional
facts. Three letters found in Phelan's pOck-
cts they will not allow to be seen.
ROssA PROGRESSES IGNORANCE.
O'DOnOvan Rosa came to his Office after
nightfall and pretended ignorance of the
whole affair. When told that man had been
hacked 10 pieces IN his Office, he smiled in
credulously; afterward he showed cOnsterna-
tiOn, and asked for particulars. He was told
to 90 to the station house for information, and
he suddenly locked his door and disappeared
PHELAN's DISCLOSURES.
In the interview above alluded to, pub
lished in the Kansas City Journal. Capt
Phelan said: Before leaving New York |
become acquainted with number of leading
Irish agitators, among them John f. Kear-
ney, who arranged the explosion in the Gale
dOnian Railway station at Glasgow. Kearney
blew up the station and part of the gas
works in that city. Rewards aggregating
$4,000, or $4,000 of our money, were offered
by the British government and by the Gas
Company and CaledOnian Central Railroad
for the apprehension of Kearney, and
he was obliged to escape to this
country. Kearney had been formerly
an emplOye of the latter company"
THE PLOT AGAINST ''THE QUEEN"
Phelan then proceeds to describe an at
tempt to blow up the steamship The Qbeen by
hearney IN her dock In Liverpool, which at
tempt failed through an accident to the ex-
plOsiVe appliances in Hearney's possession.
Phelan discovered that one of his compan-
ions on the voyage from New York to Europe
was an English detective who bad probably
been put upon his track IN New York. and in
cidentally he said he now knows that every
outgoing steamer from New York harbor is
watched by English detectives; that they dog
the steps of Irish exiles, and are almost
as thick about Bowling Green as they
are in London, Queenstown and Liverpool.
name of William Powers, which was the
name Phelan had himself arranged to assume
while IN British territory.
FRUsTRATION OF THE PLOT.
'Kearney's plan to blow up the vessel failed
because the ship sent her passengers ashore
on tender and did not 60 to the dock Kear-
ney was prevented from going below and ar
ranging the appliance which was to explode
fifteen pounds of dynamite he had brought on
board. The dynamite was found on the vessel
in quarter of an hour after the passengers
landed. The agents Of the steamship com
pany had been notified from New York ex-
actlY where to look for it, and the interview
is open to the construction that Phelan meant
to convey the idea that Kearney or some of
his associates had betrayed the plot.
ROSA NOT AT HOME.
O'Donovan Rosa lives on the outskirts of
Brooklyn. A ring at his door bell Tonight
brought no response. A friend of his said
that he had lately heard talk of treacherv
among certain parties, but he was surprised
that men should so far forget themselves
as to fight. He was sure that
Rosa knew nothing about the affair,
and that if Rosa had been present the stab,
bing would have been prevented At one
O'Clock this morning the surgeons at the hos
Pltal sald that they entertained hopes of
Pnelan's recovery. They discovered three
additional wounds in the patients head, max
ing twelve IN all Assemblyman James
Oliver went to the station house during the
night and stated that he would undertake
Shorts defense.
Charitable Bequests.
PORTLAND, Me-, Jan. 9.-The Press has it
from undOubted authority that Hon. Abner
Cohurn's will, which will be probated on Feb.
IA. DeQueatls the bUlk of the nrOOprfv tn the