, 1885-02-03

She did not care to go to my Office an'
remained waiting there. She would onl
ask for ten minutes time. The boy toll,
me the lady was at the telegraph Office il
the Stewart building, on Broadway an.
Chambers streets. l went with him and
| met her. l told her it would be well tS
go somewhere else as the telegraph Office
was a poor place to do such business, anc
we came out and went to Sweaney's no
tel. We went into the ladies' parlor.
She said she would be able to give con
siderable money II anything good was
done. She then said she would call on
Monday, February 2. At4 o'clock this
afternoon she sent another message to
my office and l went to the same tele-
graph office and there l met the lady.
She showed me a paper which l was to
sign. She then suggested that we 20 off
some place. We walked down Chambers
street to Broadway. and we got a short
distance toward Broadway when the
woman stepped back and fired two or
three shots at me. One Of the shots en-
tered my back.
[Signed1 J.. O'DoNovAN Rosa
Soon after making this statement Ros-
sa rested easier and said he was hopeful
of pulling through all right. Capt Pie
Ian, who is still guarded by policemen,
when informed Of the particulars of the
shooting, smiled grimly, but refused to
say anything on the subject
The office Of the Chambers street hos
pital was visited by a large number Of
Rossa's friends tonight. All Of them
were determined looking chaps, and they
gathered in groups Of twos and threes
and discussed in whispers the attempted
assassination Of the arch dynamiter."
John Roach, whose dynamite operations
have been confined to speeches in the
fourth ward, cunously eyed each visitor to
the institution, and from time to time dis
Appeared to talk with parties on the out
side.
Algernon s. Sullivan, public admistra-
tor, had read the new in an extra, and
dropped in to see if the story was true.
He was not permitted to see Rosa. and
left soon after.
w. j. Burke, a pronounced dynamiter.
shouted: you can kin Rosa, but you
can't kill the idea"
To a reporter Rosa said: ut was a
premeditated affair, and this woman was
simply the engine by which the dastardly
deed was accomplished. She had no
private revenge to crafty. No relative of
hers has been injured in the English ex-
plosions. 1t is the work of the English
whose policv has ALWAYS been
to assassinate men they could not
otherwise reach. She is the agent of the
British minister or somebody else. This
oma came to me and said she was
Irish, but that her husband did not sym
pathize with the cause Of Ireland She
was very rabid in her views on dynamite.
She said the London explosions were no
good, and she wanted a horrible sacrifice
Of life to strike terror to the heart Of
Ireland's enemies. l told her / was not
in that business and l received no money
for such purpose, but only to help the
Irish cause. She reiterated that thous-
ands of lives should be sacrificed in Lon
don. l had been to see my printer at 4
O'Clock, when l started out to meet her.
She wanted me to sign a receipt for the
money. The receipt contained the word
dynamite, and l declined to sign it. l
put the receipt in my pocket and walked
out with her. She is nothing more than