Morning journal and courier., 1885-01-10
News by Telegraph FROM ALL QUARTERS. THE FENIAN AVENGERS Do Deadly Work In New York. A TRAITOR STRUCK DOWN. The Tragedy In Rossa's
 Office. POISON DINNER PARTY. A Young Lady's Terrible
 Crime.
POISON AT k DINNER PARTY.
FErfAN TRA1Ton KNtFEn.

Irishman In few seconds 8 man covered
 with blood tottered down stairs to the hall
 way and sank down on the front steps while
 his blood covered the sidewalk in a stream
 The most intense excitement at once took
 place and crowds focked to the scene. Sev,
 eral officers rushed up and seeing few men
 making towards Chambers street and City
 Hall Place followed them. One of them, g
 tall man, was captured and brought back tc
 where the dying man was lying. ''Is this
 the man who stabbed you?' asked the officer.
 "Yes, that is the man, said the bleeding
 man, 'sbut by heavens if I am going to
 die, I'll die game, and there will be
 two of us" With that and be-
 fore the bystanders could realize his
 intentions he drew 8 revolver and fired two
 shots in quick succession at the man stand
 ing 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 thick with all sorts of
 run1ors. The man who was stabbed proved
 to be Captain Thomas F. Phelan of Kansas
 City, aged forty-nine, and his ssssllant whom
 he says stabbed him gave his name as Rich
 ard Short of S61 Tenth avenue. An ambu-
 lance was summoned and Phelan was taken
 to the Chambers street hospital in 8 dying
 condition. He is stabbed in the heck and
 breast and several other places. There were rumors that he gave away some of the secrets
 of the Fenian organization. A printer of the name of Schned, who has rooms on the same floor as O'Donovan Rossa, said: q was stand ing at work when suddenly heard noise in Rossae office with the upsetting of table followed by loud and angry
 words and curses. This continued for some seconds when something heavy was thrown like ''help," but am not sure whether that was it or not. Then the door was banged open and four men ran down stairs, each trying to rush past tho other. Blood was trickling down the face of the last man. They were half way down stairs when the man with the blood on him got the lead of the others. I then ran and opened the win dow of our office which looks out on Cham bers street. Then I saw the man with the blood on his face on the sidewalk put his hand to his hip pocket, DUH out TSVO1Ter &nu Ire at one of the three men, which one I cannot tell as I did not get good look at him. I think, however, he must have been shot because he pulled up his coat, placed his hand on his back and forward az if he were going to fall on his face. A policeman standing on the corner caught him by the shoulder and ar rested him."
 ''Did you see O'Donovan Rossa among the men2' ftI can't say that I did. '
 'tWas Mir. Joyce one of them:' 1T do not know him.
 "Do you think you could tell the two other men if you saw thernH' "No."
 Moses Price, of 92 Bayard street, was on the sidewalk. He was telling some of the crowd how the shooting oc cured. A policeman near by heard the re- mark and took Price to the Oak street sta tion to hold as witness. The police claim to have letter from Rossa to the wounded man telling him to come to New York to his office, that he had important bus mess for him to attend to. Phelan was asked if he wanted a minister CT a priest. ''No," he replied, 'I do not want I do not believe in any religion. I am 8 follower of Ingersoll."
 The news of the stabbing and shooting spread rapidly and inquiries were made on all sides as to who Phelan and Short were. Phelan appeared to be known to many men W1Ln the 1rlSn T0VOlUUlOnHTy I1ONe- ment. Rossa was condemned by number of his compatriots for giving publication in his paper this week to the interview printed in the Kansas City Journal purporting to be had with Phelan giving detailed account of the operations of the dynamiters in England. Threats were made against Rossa's life and it was said that his immediate friends had de termined to form a body guard to protect him. Short it was said came to this country with the man who in 1882 shot at Jim Mc Dermott in Captain Ryan's saloon in Cham bers street. He is said to be 8 native of Cork where he WAS one of the principal lead CTS of the movement directed by O'Donovan Rossa. A long interview Ill the Kansas City Journal was published by Phelan lately. It started on Q voyage to Ireland. His absence was made notable by the fact that during his sojourn in Ireland Carey, the informer, alias Powers, was shot by Patrick O'Donnell. The description given of O'Donnell tallied.. iden- tically with that of Captain Phelan, and for several days it was believed here that o'Don- nell was an alias for Phelan, and that the captain had been selected to kill Carey. Captain Phelan returned safely, but narrowly escaped being for life. In the interview he gave an account of an attempt to blow up the steamer Queen at her Liverpool dock and also the attempt to blow up the Caledonian TdllHdy SCdIlOL at di1I1 ItiCIloAoliCo the names of the men engaged in these schemes. He also gave away the manner in which the mechanical forces were used. Phe- Ian was one of the originators of the skirm ishing fund and was at one time suspected of being the famous No. One mentioned by the informer Carey in his evidence. He has been an Irish nationalist all his life and has always been prominent in Irish revolutionary movements. Short is said to be one of the who were driven to America by the treachery of James McDermott, who is now believed to be in the pay of the British gov as spy.
 On reaching the hospital Phelan bee anne very weak from loss of blood and Coroner Martin was summoned to take his ante-mor- ten statement. In answer to the usual ques- tions the wounded man said his name was Thomas Phelan and that he lived in Kansas City, Mo He then made the following state ment: "On last Sunday week there was an between myself and the local editor of the Kansas City Journal published containing the interview is now in my coat pocket and which I am willing to rive to the coroner. I received letter from John F. Kearney of No. 425 West Twenty ninth street, New York, and telegraphed him that would come to New York on January 3. arrived to-day (January 9 at 12 o'clock and called on Kearney and we went to O'Don- ,van Rossa's office. Rossa was not in. A man named ssRocky Mountain" O'Brien came in. He shook hands with me and asked how was feel ing O'Brien then left the office. A man whose name think is Barker came into the office with knife in his hand. He struck at me and tried to stab me in the chest while I was sitting. I warded off ths blow and he made several cuts at me and succeeded in stabbing me several times. I then ran down the stairs and he followed, stabbing me several times on the way down. I ran into the street and Barker was brought before me on the sidewalk. I recognized him as z1oI.I