Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1885-01-12
THE NAN VINO LIyES ENCLUSITELT ON
ms HITRED FOR ENGLAND.
He Makes Total Denial at Any Plot Existing
to kssa>snate Captain Phelan-iils TX
PLANTATION oT Ills Whereabouts
sketch of His Life.

O'nonovan ROsSa when asked ON sunday
in New York il Captain Phelan'S story that
he was concerned in a plot To asSnSsinatc him
was true, replied We'll hadn't ought TO
say anything, hut l don't know as its any
harm to state that there wasn't any plot at
all. He came here to my Office and met men
here with whom hc fuarrclcd. He got the
worst of the quarrel aud that's all there is of
it,"
I" MIR O'DoHovln," said the reporter.
solcmnly. ..i it has becu publicly iutimat"d
that there was q plot to murder the captain
and that You were out ot the way on pur-
pose?"
Its a lie" said Ross,L angrily. "aud IN
settle it right here, although | know hadn't
ought to speak Of it. | was little short OF
money a week or 80 ago, and | wrote letter
to n good friend of mine, named Tom lpWNcr,
who lives ont OF town, to lend me olOh ! cN-
pertCi an answer on Friday morning and
went around to the post office TO get it. There
was a check for 500 along with il and went
to the Park bank TO get il caShcd. The cash
Ter wanted to know If | had any dynamite
i'm my clothes and told him he needn't fear,
rs we never blew mp anybody who gave US
money. | got twenty tiNC-dollar bills and
then went to Geo. T., Latayc, my printer,
at - Beckman street, and paid him a
balance Of Sl3. l3 that ] owed him for
! printing the last edition Of my paper. Then
| | started home to give Inywitc the rest Of the
money, because there were some carpenters
| mt work in the house and ] knew she was
short. | was very hungry and a. it was Fri
| day kept an eve ont for Il place where
| could ret some fish. ! saw q big sign in
| front Of restaurant in South, near Dover
| street. | went in and had plate of fish and
| a cup Of coffee tor twenty cents.
| RossA's FIRsr KNowLEpGE or THE CRIME.
"Then started for the ferry and as | was
| going on board the boat ! heard "a man say
~, Z1,. nj
| that kind of frightened me. | went straight
| home and gave my wife all the money / had
| left and started back to the city, after telling
| her that she needn't be frightened il / didn't
| come home, as I might be lodged in Jail. |
| said that iokinglv, dye sec? When | got
| back to my office the first man l saw was a
! reporter, and that was the first ] heard Of the
| trouble, and very much surprised was.
"Werc your relations with Captain Phclan
| always friendly
"Ofcourse they were. and to prove it I'll
| show YOU a copy Of the letter / sent him and
which is now in the hands ofthe police"
Mr.. ROssa took from his pocket a piece OF
| brown paper on which was written
NEW YORK, January > l>S5.
| DEAR CAPTAIN PHELAN: Here is thai
| list Of Kansas City subscribers you asked mC
for when you were I'm New York. | don
| like 10 be asking my readers for money, bu
| / think Of writing 10 yOu now, as the paper,
are talking Of an "mtcrvicw' Of yours in 9
htliHttS Wy ,2dllt5A4' am iiA4llhLiE ~
printing the interview. l want you to send
it to me. Scratch out any part OF it you dc
not recognize rs coming from you. The
| enemy is in pretty good fright and if We
could frighten her out of Ireland by threaten
| ing her with Irish furiCs ! would have the
| Irish people throw the Irish furlCS at her
| Your interview will add TO her fright, and
will publish it. Perhaps some subscribers in
| the enclosed list are paid up already. Your
| much the same as ever,
JER. O'DoSOvAN RossA.
Phelan is somewhat better. When Richard
| Short, Captain Phelan's assalant, was first
! arrested statements were published to the Cf
| feet that he had formerly been known by the
alias of Barter. This mistake arose from the
| fact that Thomas J. Barter and Short were al
! est resemblance between the two men. Barter
! is about twcnty-eight years of age and under
! sized. His face is smooth and he dresse,
| neatly in dark clothes
sketch of Rossa's Life.
jeremiah O'DonOvan, otherwise Rossa, was
born in County Cork, Ireland, in 1889. His
father died in March 1917; ; aud tho eviction
! OF the family in June Of that year by an alien
landlord, made him an uncompromising hatel
! of England. For several years he was 4
| shopBeeper, until lsjS, when he was arrested
! for his connection with the Phoenix Society
| the parent of the Fenian organization. In
| 1865 he was again imprisoned, and was not
released until 1870 He then came to New
! York, where he kept a hotel until he estab
! lishcd Tbr TlHtcd IrisbmGp, some year
| ago.
The contents of this journal, are cminently
! feroci0us in their nature. Consequently the
| British government cOntiScates The TnHCd
| IiShH0W whcncverit finds the opportunity.
! \ feature of its columns is the subscription
! list recording gifts by Irish Americans for
! the purpose Of working injury to England by
! the use of dynamite or other effective secret
measures.