The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1885-02-04


was visited by large number ofRossa's
friends tonight, all OF them determined
looking chaps, and they gathered in groups
tvos and thKees and discussed in whispers
the attempted assassination Of the arch
oynamiter."
John Roche, whose dynamite operations
have been confined 70 speeches in the
Fourth Ward, furtiyely eyed each visitor to
the institution. aud from time to time disap'
pesred to talk to some parties on the out
side.
AIgernon s. Sullivan, Public Administ-a-
tor bad read the news in an extra" and
dropped in to see if the story was true. De
was not permitted 20 see Rosa and vanished
shortly alter.
W. J. Burke, pronounced dynsmiter,
shouted, ''You can kill Rosa, bat you can't
kill the idea"
To reporter Rosa said: 'It was pre-
meditated affair, and fhis woman was SIM
ply the engine by which the dsstardly work
Was accomplished. She had no private
revenge TO crafty, no relative of hers mad
been injured in the English explosion. IL
is the work of the English Government,
whose policy il has always been to assassi-
nate when they could not otherwise reach.
She is the agent OF the British Minister or
somebody else. This woman came TO me
and said that she was Irish, but
that her husband did not sympsthize
with the cause OF Ireland. She was Tsbid in
her views on dynamite. She said the Lon
don explosion was no good, aud wanted a
horrible sacrifice of life 70 strike terror to
the hearts of Ireland's enemies, Il told her
was not engaged in that business and I re-
ceived DO money for such purposes, but only
TO help the Irish cause. She reiterated th at
thousands of lives should be sacrificed in
London. / had been to see my printer a.
o'clock when started out 10
meet Or she wanted me 10 sign receipt for
1T 4nsu =
dynamite, and | declined to sign it. | put
paper in my pocket and walked out with
her. She is nothing more or less than an
agent Of the British Government, employed
TO Bssassinate.
Patrick Joyce, the trusted Lieutenant of
ROlse, came to bis chief shortly after ROsss
was wounded. Rosa turned over to him sll
were We he letters from Mrs. Dadiy.
joyce wss loud in his denuncistion OF the
covsrdly attempt to slaughter the great
dynemiter, and charged it was "Engtand's
work" at oIce. OF course it Was the out
come of conspiracy On the part of England
TO rid the world of Rosa, whom she breads
and fears, There is no question but what
tie friends Of England in New York knew
al about the plot. and the woman was the
tool selected to carry il into execution.
They selected a woman fer the deed be.
cause they had no man among
them brave enough to attsok him.
He has received scores of threatening letters,
but raid no more attention to them than he
would TO flea. He Is dead, and England
Will find il out to her scrrow soon enough
joyce went to the Oak Street Station to see
if he could identity Mrs Dudley as an Eng
lish woman who had been befriended by
Rosa about a year ago. He was refused
admission to her bat when he heard de-
scriptiOn of TIE prisoner he concluded
il did not tally with that of
the other woman. Rossas admirers
were greatly relieved when they found
his recovery vas regarded as quite certain
Walker ]. Elliott and Patrick Joyce went
to Brooklyn and broke the tidiDgslof Rossa's
at empted assassination to his wife Sbe
received the tidiDgs calmly. She imme-
diatelystRrted for New York and reached
the hospital at 10 o'clock, when she was ad-
mitied at once to her husbands bedside.
Their meeting was quite affecting
About ; last Dight Mrs. Dudley asked
about the condition of Rcssa, and seemed
sorry when she heard that be was still alive.
A number Of persons called to see her, bat
she positively refused to be interviewed by
any one. She discarded her steel-boWed
| spectscles, which, according TO Joyce. were
used Ss p disguise. Mrs. Dudley's career in
| New \ ork is thus given:
Thursday, January %, Mrs Dudley called
! at Mrs. Leegetts home for unemployed
| women, No. GO Clinton Place. She was met
/ by Mrs Brown. the matron. Can you ac-
| commodete me here" asked Mrs. D0dley.
Have you Yeferenees?' asked Mrs Brown.
/ my reference is DR.. Thomas whom every
| body Knows was the reply, and then she
added, vi am q professional nurse and
widow
! l desire TO stay here until secure an
! eneaeemant. In telling her story of her
( acquaintance with Mrs. Dudley, Mrs.
Brown, tonight, said ''She impressed me
r lof 4 &OlA har sxhk
! remain in the house il she would room with
| two young ladies. This she consented 20 do.
| Her only luggage was q vslise, which she
never unpacked, because, as she one day
| remarked, she might be called suddenly 10
| attend TO some Da tieDt-"
did she refer at any time 70 her psst
domestic relations?n she told me she had
! been married and had two children, but
I that her husband and children had died
abroad. Her father. she once remarked,
bad been engaged in the British cavalry
| service. She had acted as trained
| Paris, and she said she had diplomas from
| institutions of that kind, out have never
examined them. though she showed them
to some OF the young tadies in the house.
| She was thoroughly accomplished woman,
aud her manners and speech betokeped q
! mind and bright perceptions. She
lady, and sarcastic and cutting
at times when speaking of those who seemed
| to bring war on her people. She was ex-
| tremely near sighted. In telling me of her
work abroad she one day said to me she
much more enjoyed hospital work abroad
/ than the nursing she had been doing here.
| She said she had received $50 per week
abroad, which 1 know is often paid to trained
! nurses"
What is the history OF the movements of
Mrs. Dudley while with your" was asked of
| Mrs. Brown.
"As said before, she came here one week
| ago Tuesday last. Tuesday is our weekly pay
| day and she paid her board up to last Tuesday.
! On Tuesday she came TO me hurriedly ant
said she had case and was going. She would
take her latch-kev with her, for she might
| desire to return. She went, taking her va
! liEe, and, by the way, | never knew OF her
| having pistol. Last Thursday she return
| ed, coming in the pleasautesi mood possible.
| She said her patient had died. Then she
| paid me ber board up to Tuesday. (tomor
| row.. But about o'clock this alter
| noon she came to me and said
| sne was going away again. She said she
might not return, and If she did not she
| would send for her valise. l returned her
money for one days board and she went