Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1885-01-15
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NV YORK. Jan AT late hour
this afternoon. several men rushed
out of No. II Chambers street, in
which building is located the office Of
ODonovan Rosa and the United
Irishmen. In few seconds man
covered with blood tottered down the
stairs 10 the hall way and sank on the
front stoop, while his blood covered
the sidewalk IN a stream. The most
intense excitement immediately en-
sued, and crowds Hecked to the scene.
Several officers rushed up, and seeing
few men making towards Chambers
street and tho city hall, followed them,
One OF them, a tall man, was captured
and brought back to where the dying
man was lying. Is this the man
who stabbed your asked the officer
YES, that is the man" said the
bleeding man, but. by heavens, if |
am going TO die I'll die game, and
there viii be two of us. With that,
and before the bystanders could
realize his intention, he drew q re-
volver and fred two shots in quick
succession at the man standing before
him. One of the balls took effect in
the thigh of his would be murderer.
This shll further increased the excite
ment, and the neighborhood became
filed with all sorts of rumors
The man who was stabbed proved
to be Captain Thomas J. Phelan, of
Kansas City, aged 40, and his assail-
ant, whom he says stabbed him. gave
his name aS Richard Short SCI Tenth
avenue
An ambulance was summoned, and
Phelan was taken TO the Chambers
street hospital IN a dying condition.
He is stabbed in the neck and breast
and several other places There were
rumors that he gave sway some Of
the secrets of the Benian organization.
A printer named Schmidt, who has
a composing room on the same floor
next TO ODonovan ROssa's Office said :
Il was standing at my work. when
suddenly / heard a noise in Rosa S
Office, with the upsetting of a table,
followed by loud angry words, and
curses. This continued for some
seconds, when something 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 9Ht of his way. The blood was
trickling down the face of the last
man. They were half way down
stairs when the man with the blood
trickling down his face got the lead
of the others.1 | then ran and opened
the windows of our Office which looks
cut on Chambers street. Then | saw
the man with blood on his face fall on
the sidewalk, put his hand to his bir
pocket, pull out revolver and fire at
one of the three men; which one
cannot tell, as did not get 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
policeman standing on the cornei
caught him by the shoulder auC
arrested him. a great crowd of PEG
pie gathered around the man lying Oh
the sidewalk, and several fremei
came running down the street and die
something for him in the way o
dashing water in his face and giving
him whiskey.
Ibid you see ODonovan Rosss
among the four menu Schmidt was
asked. Il can't say that ! did" Tke
police claim To have letter. from
Rosa to the wounded man, telling
him to come on 10 New York to bic
office, that he had important business
for him to attend 70. Phelen was
asked by fireman Cattrell if he wanted
a minister or priest mo" he replied
II don't want anybody. ] dom
believe IN any religion. / am &
follower IF Bob IRgersoll,"
News of the stabbing and shooting
spread rapidly, and inquiries were
made on all sides as to who Phelar
and Short we're. Phelan appeared Il
be known to many men. He svai
identified with several Irish revolu
tionary societies.
Rosa was condemned by a number
of his conpatriots for giving publlca
ton in his paper this week to al
interview published in the Kansas City
Journal, which purported TO have
been had with Phelan, giving a de
tailed account of the operations of the
dynamiters in England. Threats wer'
made against Rossa's life, and 1t II
said his immediate friends had deter
mined to form bodyguard to protec
him. Short, it was stated, came tt
this country with the man who 10 the
summer of 1859 shot at Jim McDer
mott in Capt. Ryaa's bar-room IL
Chambers street. lie is said to to b'
a native of Cork where he was one o.
the principal leaders against the gov
eminent directed by O'Donoysr
Rosa.
Phelan was suspected OF being ONT
of the origlnators Of the sklrmishinl
fund and was at one time suspected
of being famous. No one was men
toned BY the informer Carey in his
evidence. He has been an lrist
nationalist all bis life and has Away
been prominent in the Irish revolu
tionary movement. Short is said 4
be one Of the Irishmen driven TO thu
oo,,ntr, hv the treachePy OF jim Nc