Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1885-02-03

sent another message TO my Office and wen,
to the same telegraph office, and there met
the lady; she showed me the paper that wa.
10 sign; she then suggested that we go te
some place and we walked down Chambers
street towards Broadway, and got short dis
tahce toward Broadway. when the woman
stepped back and fred two or three shots al
me; one of the balls entered my back.
(Signed)
JEREMIAH O'DoNNovAN Rosa
AT $50 the wounded man was resting easily
and said he was hopeful of pulling through
all night. Capt. Phelan, who is still guarded
by policeman, when Informed of the par
tculars of the shooting smiled grimly but re-
fused to say anything on the subject.
The hospital was visited by large number
of Rossa's friends. All of them were deter
mined looking chaps and they gathered in
groups and discussed the attempted assassina-
tion in ominous whispers.
w. j. Burke, a pronounced dvnamiter
shouted, You can kill Rosa, but YOU can,
kill the idea"
To reporter Rosa said 1t was pre-
meditated affair and this woman was simply
an engine by which the dastardly work was
accomplished. She had no private revenge
to crafty; no relatives of hers had been
killed by the explosions in England. 1t is
the work of the English government, whose
policy has always been to assassinate men
they could not otherwise reach. She is the
agent of the British minister or somebody
eise' ihis woman came TO me and said she
was irish' odt her nus oand dld not sympathlze
WIN tue cause oi Ireland She was ra0ld In
ner views on dynamite She sad the Lon
uoh explosions we're no good and wanted hor-
4 & . c
,ioie sacrince or lie to strike terror to the
neat's vi ireiahu eheulles' toiu her was
not engaged IN that business and l received
10 money Tor such purposes, but only to help
the irlsh cause. She reiterated that thou
SANDS OF lives should be sacrificed IN Lon
don- ha' been to see my printer at four
ceck ~hen started out to meet her. She
wanted me 10 sign receipt Tor money. The
receipt contained the word dynamite and
oecilhed 10 sign II: put the paper IN my
pocket and walked out with her. She is
nothlhg more or less than an agent OF the
BRUSH government employed to assasslnate
me.
fatrlck joyce, trusted lieutenant of
Rossa's, came to his chief shortly after the
latter was wounded. Rossa turned over all
his papers to joyce, and among them were
letters from Mrs Dudley. Joyce was loud
IN MS accommodation OF the cowardly attempt
TO slaughter the great dynamter, and charged
IL TO England at once "Of course 1t was
the outcome OF conspiracy on the part OF
England to RID the world or Rossa whom she
breads and fears. Tie is not dead and Eng
land Will ma 1t out to her sorrow
Hreat excitement prevailed among Rossas $
admirers, and although they SAID little or
nothing, thev manifested great excitement as
to his condition, and were greatly relieved
when It was found that his recovery was re-
garded as quite certain.
Mrs. Rossa was admitted to see ner hus-
band, and at 10 tonight their meeting was at-
fectlng. About O'Clock, Mrs. Dudley asked
about the condition OF Rossa, and seemed
very sorry when she heard that he was still
alive. number OF persons called to see
her bet she positively refused to be inter
viewed. She discarded her spectacles, which
according TO Joyce, were used as a disguise
On Thursday, Jan. 22nd. she called on Mrs
Legget's home for unemployed women, to
Mrs. Brown, matron,sh named as reference
DIR, Thomas, and added 81 am professional!
nurse and widow, and desire to stay here
until | secure engagement. She told Mrs.
Brown that she was married and had two
children, but that her husband and children
had died abroad and ner father had been en-
gagged in the British cavalry service.
She was thorough accomplished woman and
her manners and speech betokened a
thoroughbred English woman of keen mind
and bright perceptions. She was an intensely
patriotic little lady and sarcastic and cutting
at times, when speaking of those owho
seemed to be making war on her people. She
was extremely near sighted. In the matron's
paelor bevy of young ladies talked of Mrs.
Dudley's deed. 'She Was almost crazy with
excitement one week ago Sunday when she
read of the explosions in London, said a
black eyed young woman. "She said America
should give up Rosa to England. and then
on Sunday last when she heard of the explo-
sions on Grand street she was again very
much excited. She has number of copie S
of Rossa's Dappr and Sunday she had said