St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-02-03

way when the woman stepped back and fired
two OF three shots at me. One of the balls
entered my back.
(Signed) JEREMIAH O'DoNovAN Rosa.
Soon after making this statement Rosa
rested easier and said he was hopeful of pull
ing through all right.
Captain Phelan, who is still guarded by a
policeman, when informed of the particulars
of the shooting, smiled grimly, but refused
to say anything on the subject.
VISITED BY HIS FRIENDS.
The Office at Chambers street hospital was
visited by large number Of Rossa's friends
to night. All Of them were determined look
ing chaps, and they gathered in groups of
| twos and threes and disc Used in whispers
the attemp pied assassination of the ''arch dy-
namiter."
John Roche, whose dynamite operations
have been confined to speeches in the Fourth
ward, furtively eyed each visitor to the insti-
tuition, and from time to time disappeared to
talk with parties on the outside.
Algernon S. Sullivan, public administrator,
had read sthe news in an ''extra, ''and dropped
in TO see II the story was true. He was not
permitted to see Rossa and vanished shortly
after.
W. J. Burke, a pronounced dvnamiter,
shouted: You can kill Rosa, but you can't
kill the idea.''
ANOTHER STATEMENT BY ROSA.
To reporter Rossa said: ut was a pre-
medtated affair, and the woman was simply
the engine by which the dastardly work was
accomplished. She had no private revenge
70 crafty. No relatives of hers had been in
jured in the English explosions. It is the
work of the English government, whose
policy it always has been TO assassinate men
they cou q not otherwise reach. She is the
agent the British minister or somebody
else. This woman came to me and said she
was irish, but that her husband did not sym
pathiZe with the cause Of Ireland. q.
She was rabid In her views on
dynamite. Sde said the London
explosions wets no good, and wanted
a horrible sacrifice of life, to strike terror to
the hearts OF Ireland's enemies. told her
was not engaged in that business, and re-
ceived no money for such purposes. but only
to help the Irish cause. She reiterated that
thousands of lives should be sacrificed in
London. had been to see my printer at 4
O'Clock, when l started out to meet her. She
wanted me to sign q receipt for money. The
receipt contained the word dynamite, and l
pocket and walked out with her She is
nothing more or less than an agent of the
British goVernmen employed to assassinat
me-"
CHARGING ENGLAND WITH BEING THE CAUSE.
Patrick Joyce, a trusted lieutenant Of
Rosa, came to his chief in the hospital
shortly after Rosa was wounded. Rosa
turned over al his papers to Joyce, and
among them were letters from Mrs. Dudley.
joyce was loud in his denunciation Of the
cowardly attempt to slaughter the great dyn-
amiter, aud charged it was 'EngIaud's
work. at once. ''Of course it was the out
come Of a con nspiracy on the part of England
to rid the world of Rossa, whom she breads
aud fears. There IS no question but what
the agents of England in New York knew all
about the plot, and the woman was the tool
selected TO carry il into execution. They
selected a woman for the deed because they
had not man among them brave enough
to attack him He has received scores of
threatening letters, but paid no more atten-
Goa To tnem than he would To a flea He is
not dead, and England will find it out TO her
sorrow soon enough.''
Joyce lourneyed to the Oak street station
to see II he could identify Mrs. Dudley as an
English woman who had been befrien ed by
Rossa about year ago. He was refused ad-
mission to her, but when he heard descrip.
tion Of the prisoner he concluded it did not
tally with that Of the other woman.
MRS. ROSA INFORMED.
Rossa's admirers were greatly relieved
when they found that his recovery is regarded
as quite certain. Walker J. Elliott and Pat
rick Joyce went to Brooklyn and broke the
tidings Of Rossa's attempted assassination
to his wife. She received the tidings calmly
She imme diately started for New York and
reached the hospital at 10 O'Clock, when she
was admitted at once to ber hu sband's bed
side. Their meeting was quite affecting.
WHO MRS. DUDLEY Is.
About 9 last night Mrs. Dudley asked
about the condition of Rossa, and seemed
sorry that he was still alive. A number of
persons called TO see her, but she positively
refused to be interviewed by any one. She
has discarded her steel bowed spectacles,
whi ch, according to Joyce, were used as a
disguise. Mrs. Dudleys career in New York
is thus given. On Thursday, January %.
Mrs. Dudley called at Mrs. Leggett's home
for unemployed women, No. go Clinton
Place. She was met by Mrs Brown, the
matrOn.
"Cau you accommodate NE herel'' asked
Mrs. Dudley.
Have you refercncesr' asked Mrs.
Brown.
MY reference is Or. Thomas, whom every
body knows" was the reply; and then sh,
added; II am a professional nurse and a
widow, aud desire to stay here until | secure
an engagement"
In telling the story OF her acquaintance
With Mrs. Dudley, Mrs. Brown tonight said /:
"Shc impressed me 50 very favorably that
/ told her she might remain in the house II
she would room with two other Young ladies'.
This she consented to do. Her only luggage
was vslise which she never uupacked.
because, as she one day remarked. she
might be called suddenly to attend some
patient"
"Did she refer at any time while here 10
her past domestic relatiousi" was asked.
she told me she had been married and
had two children. but that her husband and
children had died abroad. Her father, she
once remarked, had been engaged iu the
British cavalry service. She had acted rs A
trained nurse in hospitals in London and
Paris, aud she said she had diplomas from
institutions Of that kind, but uever exam
incd them, though she showed them 20 some
Of the young ladies in the house She vas
a thoroughly accomplished woman. and her
manners and speech betoseued 4 thorough
bred English woman, Of keen mind
aud bright perceptions. She was an intensely
patriotic little lady, aud sarcastic aud cutting
at times when speaking Of those who seem
to Ue making war on Der people. She was
extremely near sighted. In telling me of
her WORK abroad. she one day said to me she
much more enjoyed hospital work abroad
than the nursing she ha1 been doing here.
She sSid she had received SIS per week
abroad. which I know IS often paid 10
trsiued nurses
What Is the history Of the movements Of
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