The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1885-01-10
NIGHT DISPATCHES!
A Singular Case

A Singular Case
NEwYoRk, Jan. 9.-Ata late hour
this afternoon several men residing
in No. ~ Chambers street in which
building Is located the office of o.
Donnova Rosso and the United Irish
man, In a few seconds saw a man
covered with blood who tottered
down stairs and sank down on the
front stoop while his blood covered
the sidewalk in a stream. The most
intense excitement ensued and
crowds flocked to the scene. Several
officers rushed up and seeing a few
men running towards Chamber street
and City hall, f,llowed them. One
of them, a tall man, was captured
and brought back to where the dy-
ing man was laying us this the
man who stabbed you 2" asked the
officer, Eyes, that is the man." said
the bleeding man, "but, by heaven, if
Pm going to die I'll die game and
there will be two of u.s." With that
and before the bystanders could
realize his intentions he drew a re-
volver and fred two shots In quick
succession at the man sta nding be-
fore him. One Of the balls toox ef-
feet in the thigh of his would-be
murderer. This still further increased
the excitement and the crowd became
wild with all sorts of rumors.
The man who ~ stabbed proved
to be Capt. Thos. Phelan. of Kansas
City, and his assailant, whom he
saws stabbed him gave his name Is
Richard Short, 86l 10th avenue. An
ambulance was summoned and
Phelan taken to Chambers street
hospital dying. He is stabbed in the
neck and breast and in several other
places. There were rumors he gave
away some of the secrets of the fen1an
organization. A printer named
Schmidt who had a room ON the same
floor. next to O'Donovan Rossa's
office said II was standing at my
work. Suddenly I heard a noise in
Rossa's Office with the upsetting of u
table, followed by loud angry words
and curses. This continued some
seconds when something heavy was
thrown against the wall and a man
cried out something which sounded
like "help" but l am not sure
whether that was the word or not.
Then the door was banged open and
four men ran down stairs each trying
to push the other out of his way.
Blood was tr:ckling down the face
of the last man. They were half
way down stairs when the man
with the blood trickling down his
face, got lead of the others. [ then
ran and opened the window of our
office which looks out on Chambers
street. Then / saw the man with
blood on his face, fall on the sidewalk,
put his hand in his hip pocket, pull q
revolver and fire at one of the three
men, which one I can't tell, as I did
not get q good look at him. l think
he must have been shot, because he
pulled up his coat, placed his hand
on his back and stumbled forward as
if he was going to fall on his face. A
policeman standing or the corner
caught him py the shoulder and ar
rested him. A great crowd of people
gathered around the man lying on
the sidewalk. several fireman came
running down the street and did
something for him in the way of
Gashing water in his face and giving.
him whisky"
Ibid you see O'Donovan Rosa
among the four men ?"
II can't say that I did,"
The police claim to have a letter
from Rosa to the wounded man, tell
ing him to come on to New York to
his office; that he had important bus
mess for HIM to attend to. Phelan
was asked by the firemen if he want
ed a minister or a priest. "No," re-
piled he, II don't want anbody. I
don't believe in any religion: I ana a
follower of Bob IngersoIl." The
news of the stabbing spread rapidly,
and inquiries are made on all sides
as to who Phelan and Short were.
Phelan is known to many to be iden-
titled with several Irish revolutionary
associations. Rosa is condemned by
a number of his compatriots for
giving publication in his paper
of this week to an interview pub
lished in q Kansas City journal pur-
ported to be with Phelan, giving a
detailed account of the opera
ton of dynamiters in England.
Threats are made against Rossa's life.
It is said mis- friends have determined
to form a body guard to protect him.
Short, it is stated came to this
country with a man who in the
of 1882 shot ut Jim Nc.
Dermott in Capt. Ryaa's barroom.
Is said to be a native of Cork,
where he was one of the principal
leaders of the movements directed by
Rosa. A long interview is in the
Kansas City Journal published by
Phelan lately. Phelan is one of the
of the skirmishing fund
and at one time was suspected of
being the famous NO. l" mentioned
by informer Carey IN his evidence.
He has been an Irish Nationalist all
his life and been always prominent
in Irish revolutionary movements.
Short Is said to he one of the Irish
men who was driven to this country
by the treachery Of Jim McDermott,
of Brooklyn, who is now believed to
oe in the pay of the British govern.
ment.
New York Notes.