Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1885-02-12


New YORK, February 3.-John Boyle
O'Reilly was interviewed at the Office of
the Pilot this afternoon concerning the
shooting of O'Donovan Rosa. lie said:
Il believe / know the woman who shot
O'Donoyan Rosa. / think the circum-
stances of the case warrant me In suspect
ing in her the person oi AN Irish spy, but
in giving utterance to this belief and rea-
son for it | want to make my position
clearly understood. If the so called
Yseult Dudley be really as she claims, an
English woman, and shot Rosa because
she believed il her mission and duty so to
do, all honor to her. | would not utter
syllable in her detraction. But il, on the
contrary, as believe, she was employed
by the British government to do this
thing, then woe Ia her and TO the govern
ment which employed her. IL will then
be an affair far more terrible in It's results
for England than for Ireland"
How can the British spy Ice proven 2"
"By sending to Ireland Tor "A photograph
of the Mrs. Tyler whose operations there
excited 80 much comment and Indignation
in 1884. Ii is a simple matter, and will
verify or disprove my theory at once. i
believe that Mrs. Yseult Dudley is Mrs.
Tyler, and photographs of the latter will
furnish overwhelming testimony"
What are your reasons for believing
that Mrs. Dudley and Mrs. Tyler are iden-
ticaly
"I will tell you. In The first place, let
us identity Mrs. Tyler on the 18th of
December the Dublin correspondent OF the
Pilot wrote these words about "A British
female spy who had tried TO decoy several
men in Ireland into dynamite outrages:
Some time ago | sent you description OF
a remarkable female spy, Mrs. Tyler, who
tried TO entrap James O'Connor and other
leading Irishmen here with lans of a
dynamitory character. | have good rea-
son to believe that she is here again. and it
would he as we'll that the Irishmen in
America were prepared to hear that such
an emisary is on the war-path.' The
some time ago referred to is letter dated
Dublin, July >, 1ssi."
Opinions of Prominent IrIshmen.
BUFFALO, y. V. February "a num-
ber of prominent Irishnen of this city were
interviewed by an associated press repre-
sentative relative to the shooting OF Rosa.
James Moopy, ex-president of the Irish
national league, said he did not agree with
Rosa, whom he styles the apostle of as
sassination. lie did not believe Rossa was
in any way connected with the recent dy-
Mantle explosions in England, neither did
he think any one in this country had a
hand in the affair. Rosa had 10 fellow
ing of any account in this country. i:ossa
may have good reasons for his hatred OF
England, but the Irish leaders had no sym
pathy with his wild and impracticable
Moony believed the outrag;s in
England were planned in that country by
persons in the employ OF the communists
or similar organizations, and possibly by
the Irish constabulary who want the crimes
act renewed.
Father Cronin, editor of the Catholic
UaiOn said think that Rosa has suf-
fered intensely at the hands of England
and was to certain extent unaccountable
for his acts and words, and the wrongs had
affected his mind. He did not think Rossa
for the outrages in London or
that the dynamiters were Irishmen. They
were to his mind the result of British ty-
ranDy.