The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1885-01-10
SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH: SATURDAY, ANUARY
A stabbins ARRAY.


New YORK, january 9.-Thomas
Phelan, said to be superintendent of
the Kansas City warehouses, was
stabbed and probably fatally wounded
in the Office of O'Donoyan Rosa, to-
day, by a man named Barry. The men
quarreled, presumably IN relation to
Irish national affairs. Phalen opened
fire with his revolver upon his assailant,
when both reached the street. Barry
was locked upin the Oak Street station.
Phelan was removed to the Chambers
street hospital, where it is thought he
will die
FURTHER DETAILS.
New YORK, January 9.-At late
hour this afternoon several men rushed
out of u Chambers street, in which
building is located the Office ofO'Dono-
van Rosa. and the, United Irislan.an. In
a few seconds a man covered with
blood tottered down the stairs to the
hallway and sank on the 'front.' stoop;
while his blood covered the sidewalk in a
stream. The most intense excitement
at once ensued, and crowds
fOcked to the scene. Several
officers rushed up, and seeing few
men making towards Chambers street
and the City Hall, followed them. One
OF them, tall man, was captured and
brought back to where the dying man
was lying.
" Is this the man who stabbed your"
asked the officer.
"Yes; that is the man." said the
bleeding man; but, by heavens, if I'm
going to die, I'll die game, and there
will be two of us!" With that. and be-
fore the bystanders could realize his in
tentions, he drew a revolver and fred
two shots in quick succession at. the
man standing before him. One of the
balls took effect in the thigh of his
would-be murderer. This still further
increased the excitement, and the
neighborhood became wild with all sorts
of rumors. The man who was stabbed
proved to be Captain Thomas f. Phe-
Ian, of Kansas City, aged 40, and his
assailant, whom he says stabbed
him, gave his name as Richard
Short, 851 Tenth Avenue. An ambu-
lance was summoned and -Phelan was
taken to the Chambers street hospital,
dying. He is stabbed in the neck and
breast and in several other places. -
There were rumors that he gave away
some of the secrets of the Fennian Or
ganization. Y99ETETgTFTTfTCrd
"A printer. named Schmidt, who had
composing room on the same floor,
next to O'Donovon Rossa's office. said /:
Il was standing at my work, when sud-
denly l heard noise in Rossa's office
with the upsetting of table, followed
by loud, angry words and curses.
This continued for some seconds, when.
something heavy was thrown against
oil I'll H..
that sounded like Help" but | am not
sure whether that was the word or not
then the door was banged open, and
out of his way. Blood was
trickling down the face of the last
man. They were half way down the
stairs, when the man with the blood
trickling down his face, got the lead of
the others. then ran and opened the
window of our Office, which looks out
on Chambers street. Then / saw the
man with the blood on his face, fall on
the sidewalk put his hands to his hip
pocket, pull a revolver and fire at one
of the three men, which one 1 cannot
tell, as did not get a good look at him.
| think, however, he must have been
shot, because he pulled up his coat,
placed his hand to his back and Stun
bled forward, as if he was going to fall on
his face. A policeman standing on the
corner caught him by the shoulder and
arrested him. A great crowd of people
gathered around the man lying on the
| ming down the street and did something
for him, in the way of dashing water in
his face and giving him whisky"
ibid you see 0'Donovan Rosa
among the four mem" Mr.. Schmidt
was asked.
II can't say that did, EE ~
The police claim to have ia letter
| from Rosa to the wounded man, telling
him to come on to New York to his
Office; that he had important business
for him to attend to. "a
Phelan was asked by Fireman Cot
trell if he wanted a minister or priest.
NO" he replied, Il don't want any
body. l don't believe in any religion. l
am follower of Bob Ingersoll."
The news of the stabb;ng and shoot
ing spread rapidly: and inquiries were
made on all sides as to who Phelan and
Short were. Phelan appeared to be
known to many men, as identified with
several Irish revolutionary societies.
Rosa was condemned by number of
1Oi giving PhOAAN1bhOAl
in his paper this week to an interview
published in the Kansas City Journal
purported to have been had with Phelan,
/ giving detailed account of the opera
tions of the dynamiters in England.
Threats were made against Rossa's life.
1t Is said that his immediate friends had
determined to form body guard to pro-
tect him. er -
Short. it was stated, came to this
country with the man, who, in the sum-
mer OF 1882, shot at Jim McDermott in
Captain Ryan's bar-room in Chambers
street. He is said to be native of
Cork, where he was one of the principal
4 leaders in the movement directed by
O'Donovan Rosa.
A long interview in the Kansas City
Journal was published by Phelan lately.
Phelan was one of the originators of the
"skirmishing fund, and was at one time
suspected of being the famous mo. II
mentioned by the informer Carey in his
evidence He has been an Irish Ma
tionalist all his life, and has been al
ways prominent in Irish revolutionary
movements.
Short is said to be one of the Irish