The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1885-02-12
NEMESIS,
In the Form of An English Sol
dier's Daughter,
Pursuing O'DonOvan ROssa She Shoots Him
Down On the Street in New York,
WOunding Him I3adIy-The
Vonlan's Antecedents.
NEMESIS.
NEW YoRK. Eehrnarv ..

ODonOvan Rosa was shot in front of
the Stewart Building, on Chambers
street, by woman named Lucille Ysuelt
arrested, and Rossa was taken to the
Chambers Street Hospital. He was shot
in the back under the right shoulder.
When the woman was brought to the
station-house she handed to the police
sergeant a five-barreled nickel-plated
42-caliber revolver, very coolIy saying:
F'I guess they are all empty now."
She had fired five shots, but only one
had taken effect. She said she was
nurse and lived at No. 60 Clinton Place.
She came from England five months ago.
She had an interview with Rossa on Sat
urday at his office. She met him to-day
by appointment made by a letter from
her to him. It is said the letter is now
in the hands of Patrick Joyce, Rossa's
secretary. The woman is handsome, and
very fairly dressed in the style of we'll
to-do English immigrant. She wore
spectacles and had the appearance of an
intellectual looking school teacher.
Bystanders who saw the shooting, say
that the woman dr-w the revolver from
her dress pocket, and leveling it at
Rosa, fired one shot. Rosa threw his
hand above his head and cried:
''IM shot,"
He then fell heavily to the sidewalk.
The woman fired the remaining bullets in
the revolver at the PROSTATE man and
calmly walked away with the smoking
pistol in her hand.
She was followed by a large crowd,
Txyhi ct surrounded the
wounded dynamiter.
City Marshal McAuley saw the pistol in
the woman's hand and arrested her. She
was taken to the Twenty-sixth Precinct
Station, the City Hall. Her imperturbable
gravity and GOODNESS of demeanOr were
remarkable.
When arraigned at the desk, she hand
ed her pistol to the Sergeant.
Marshal McAuley said the woman was
brandishing a pistol in the street. A
citizen who entered the station with the
prisoner said she had just shot man in
Chambers street.
"Do you know the MANI" asked the
Sergeant of the woman.
eyes; l shot O'DonoYan Rossa," said
the prisoner, with slight English ac-
cent.
She looked very demure and pretty as
she stood at the bar, and betrayed no ex-
citement. She gave her name as Lucille
Ysuelt Dudley, and said she was native
of England and hospital nurse by occu-
patton. She described herself as a widow,
twenty-five years of age, but does not
appear to be over eighteen.
A number of questions were put to her,
but she preserved dignifed silence. She
was locked up and all reporters were de-
MED admission to her for the present.
She did not appear to be insane, for she
answered all questions deliberately and
with some degree of caution. She de-
clined to diYulge the cause of the shoot
ing, but it is presumed that it was in re-
venge for the recent dynamite explosions
When seen at the Chambers Street
Hospital, Rosa was lying quietly on his
cot, which was located only a short dis
tance from that of Captain Phelan's.
Rosa said that as he reached the street,
after leaving his Office in Chambers street
at 5 80 p. m, woman, without uttering
a word, shot him. The ball penetrated
beneath and to the right shoulder-blade,
taking an upward course. RoSsa said
that the pain was not great, and he hoped
the would-be murderess was satisfied.
After probing for four minutes, the
physicians decided not to search further
for the ball, for fear of weakening the
patient The wound will probably not
prove fatal. There is no immediate
danger, and the patient is resting quietly.
Patrick Joyce, Rossa's secretary, ar
rived at the hospital few minutes after
Rosa had been conveyed there. He was
told by Rossa to telegraph for Mrs.
Rossa But few other people were ad-
mitted.
The report of the shooting attracted
large crowd, among which was ex-
United States Marshal John Centre, who
assisted Rosa to his feet and asked him
if he could be of any assistance to him.
Rossa said:
'I'm shot," and without another word
walked with Centre to the hospital.
The woman, after doing the shooting
ran toward Center street, and when op-
posite the District Attorneys office, was
stopped by Deputy Marshal McAuIey
and Judge Callahan. McAuley seized
the woman by the arm. She did not
seem in the least excited and said:
81 shot RoSsa, ana II you want me,
will go along with you"
McAuley then took her into custody.
When asked what she shot Rossa for,
she said:
"I'm English, and shot him because
he is O'Donovan Rossa."
She then asked for a glass of water,
and after thanking the officer she was
placed in a cell.
At six O'Clock the woman was removed
10 the Oak Street Police Station. She
will be arraigned at the TOmbs Police
Court.
The news of the shooting spread ike
wildfire, and in less than half an hour
several hundred people had gathered in
front of the hospital anxious to learn
Rossa's condition.
Tonight ROssa's condition was
considered by the physicians not so favor
able, and Coroner Kennedy was sent for
to take his ante-mortem statement. The
Coroner arrived at the hospital soon after,
and Rosa, after answering the usual
questions, made in substance the follow
ing statement:
'sOn last Saturday afternoon I received
\ note from a messenger boy, saying that
a lady desired to see me at the Stewart
building. / went there and she told me
that she was a friend of the Irish cause,
and that she had large sum of money to
help the cause along. After a brief
conversation we adjourned to Sweeney's
Hotel, where an appointment
was made for to-day. This
afternoon the same boy came with
to see me in the Stewart build
ing. 1 went there, and the woman
produced paper which she wanted me
TO sign on behalf of dynamite. told her
that / was not receiving money for that
purpose. She then remarked that the
place was too public to transact the bus
ines, and suggested that we should go
somewhere else. We went out together
and on reaching the sidewalk the woman
fell back and pulled out a pistol and COM
menced firing. The first shot struck me
in the back, and / fell from the shock /
was assisted up by a stranger and taken
to Chambers Street Hospital.
Mrs. Rosa arrived at the hospital at
ten O'Clock, and was Immediately taken
TO her husbands side. She was appar-
emily greatly moved at his condition.
Rosa, in conversation with an intimate
friend to-night. said that bis attempted