The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1885-02-12
MRS. DUDLEY INTERVIEWED.

New YORK, February A. Mrs
Gsleta Dudley, who was yesterday
committed to the Tombs to await the
result of -0'Donnovan RosSa's injury,
told a reporter, this morning, "Many
Of the stories published concerning
me are a tissue. of les" Said Mrs.
Dudley: "The reporters on this side
OF the water seem to be much more
Inventive than English reporters. L
cannot, for my part, see the need of
making up such sensational articles
from such an Insignificant affair."
Why couldn't the newspapers dismiss
it with paragraph ?"
+ SAID reporter: The papers this
morning print dispatch from Lon
don which states you were confined in
HayWardS health insane ASYLUM, in
Sussex, for q year for attempting sui
eide. Is the report correct?
you have no right to ask such
questions" said Mrs. Dudley, irnpa-
tinetly. "but [ will say I never was
confined in an English prison of any
kind. Newspapers on the other side
ought to know better than to print
such stuff. If one is to believe all
they say, [ would indeed be an impos-
sible character"
"HoW about the report you are q spy
in the employ OF the British govern
ment, and gave champagne suppers to
certain English bs,l listers supposed 30
bein sympathy with the dynamiters 2"
81 viii not admit, or deny, that l
ever did such a thing. John Bowie
O'Rielly thinks L am Miss Tyler. He
shall have tie privilege of identifying
me if he can. Until he does that he
had better not give out any moro sto-
ries."
The surgeons report Rosa passed
an easy night, no inflammation or swell
ing about the wound, and in few
days ne will be able to leave the hos
pital,
WHAT THE LONDON PAPERS SAY.
LONDON, February 4.-Comment-
ing on the shooting of O'Donoyan
Rossa, by Mrs. Dudley, the times says:
This man, whose thoughts one
would imagine, run from morning IN
til night on methods of murder, at
last placed himself III the power OF an
unknown woman. Henow cheWs the
cud of reflections which must be Bit
ter enough. Mrs. Dudley's act rivals
that of Charlotte Corday's.
The News says: Should the worst
befall Rosa it must be admitted no
one has done more to deserve his fate.
But if he were killed some other would
instantly spring up to take his place" !"
The Standard advises Parnell to take
the fate of Rosa to heart, and says
that stranger things have happened
than that Parnell too should find his
Nemesis.
MRS. DUDLEY'S MARRIAGE.
LONDON, February 4.-Further in
| vestigation of Mrs. Dudley's antece-
dents in England shows that when
she learned she had been deceived by
mock marriage to person in the
south of England, she became mad,
but declined to prosecute her betrayer.
Persons intimately acquainted with
her say her love for her children is SO
intense that for q long time after
their deaths she daily visited their
| graves, and would lie on the mounds
for hours, frantically appealing to heI
children to come back 20 her.
ANOTHER STORY ABOUT HER.
LONDON, Feb. 4-The chaplain o1
Millbank prison where Mrs. Dudley
was confined after her attempt at sul'
eide states she suffered for years from
insomnia and was in the habit of ta'
king narcotics, the effect of which
maddened her, but otherwise she ap'
peared sane. He always found bel
gentle, obedient and intellectual. She
never mentioned politics. During hel
voyage to New York she had thirteeI
epiIeptic fits. It is believed she wa
born in Paris and Travelled through
Italy, Switzerland, India, Russia
Norway and Germany.
AFUND FOR MRS. DUDLEY
TORONTO, Can, February A.
subscription list for the defense Q
Mrs. Dudley who attempted t.
remove" O'Donovan Rosa has beel
opened here.
RAISING A NATIONAL FUND.
LONDON, February "A move
ment has been started in nottingham
to raise national fund to defray tn
expenses necessary to Mrs. Dudley
; defense. A circular is being dis
tributed urgently requesting the pee
: pie of Great Britain, "to contribute t
, the fund to defend Mrs. Dudley, thu
heroic Englishwoman who resovled
rid civilization of its greatest enemy
every Englishman" the appei
declares, should be ready to affoI
n Mrs. Dudley every legal assistance"