St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-07-01
METHODICAL MADNESS
In the DudIsy-Rossa Shooting Case the
Jury Bring in Verdict of
Acquittal.
The Decision Based upon the Grounds
That the Prisoner Is
Insane.
Eliza Sage, Living Near Allegan,
Mich, Brutality Outraged and
Murdered.
Trouble Causes the Suicide of A. j.
Dumont, a Prominent Man of
New Orleans.
NIrs. DudIeYss TriaI.

Mrs. DudIeyss Trial.
New YORK, June 3O.-The court room
where Mrs. Dudley was being tried for the
assault on O'DOnOyan Rosa was again
crowded to excess to-day. DIR. Charles E.
Dennison, who dressed RoSsas wounds,
testified as to their location and character.
ms ended the case for the prosecution.
The counsel for Mrs. Dudley then opened
for the defense. He claimed that Mrs.
Dudley had assaulted Rosa, not out of per-
sonal spite OF to avenge personal insult, but
because he was an enemy of her country.
The counsel discussed the subject of Irish
patriotism. In outlining the line of the
testimony for the defense the counsel speaks
OF what he termed Mis-. Dudley's physical
infrmity. He said that he would show
that for several years she had been subject
to epileptic fits. He would show that her
mind had been affected by those fits and
that she was not responsible for
her own conduct. The counsel submitted
a number OF letters from English physicians
in the various institutions in which his
client had been confined for treatment, set
ting forth the character of her disease. The
/ deponentS declared that Mrs. Dudley was
not in her right mind. Elizabeth l. Ten
lus, aprivate teacher who resided at the
same place as Mrs. Dudley, testified that
for several days previous to the shooting Of
Rosa the prisoner had acted in
! y STRANGE MANNER.
She had bundles of ROSsa'S newspaper
containing the report of recent explosions
in London, and in speaking to the witness
of Rosa Mrs. Dudley had alluded to the
ACCESSIBILITY of Kidding the earth of such
man. DR.. A. E. Mcdonald, superintend-
emit of the asylum for the insane
| m TcIa El,E
he was convinced that Mrs. Dudley
was suffering from chronic mania.
Mrs Dudley had told the witness that there
were three men she had determined to pun
iSh with death, and that Rosa was first on
the list. DIR. William l.. Harding gave
similar testimony. Mrs. Dudley here inter-
rupted the proceedings of the court by adj
dressing Judge Gildersleeve. She said:
whether | was rational or not when I
shot Rosa am perfectly sane now, and
wish TO testify in my own behalf. If the
case goes to the jury now without their
having heard me they will form an entirely
erroneous impression of my motives and
will not know why l shot Rosa. The doc
tors said that l had said that had q mis-
sion when they should have said that had
an inclination" The judge said that she had
better confer with her counsel, and when
the time came the court would hear her.
Mrs. Dudley's counsel said that they
found themselves in a somewhat peculiar
position. They had been trying to
prove
THEIR CLIENT WAS INSANE.
She on her part insisted that she
was not insane at the time OF the attack,
and insisted on her right to 90 on the stand
and testify in her own behalf. The coun-
sci could not see how they could do other
wise than call her as a witness. 1t was
finally agreed that she should be-called to
the stand after recess. after the recess
Mrs. Dudley's lawyers tried their best to
get her to forego her intentions of becoming
a witness. She persisted in her intention,
however, and at a word from the prosecut-
ing counsel she walked quickly to the wit
ness chair and was sworn. She said:
Gentlemen of the jury, l may or may
not be insane, but if it is accurate that my
action was for the possession of the al
mighty dollar, then, have no doubt, YOU
will readily decide that 1 am not insane.
wish you TO decide my case by acquitting
me either on the ground that my action was
justifiable
OR CONVICT ME.
81 was in doubt as to whether jeremiah
O'DonOvan, Patrick Ford or MeZgaroff
were the more responsible. read O'DOn-
ovan's and Ford's papers, and read about
Mezgaroff, and then l went to see O'Dono-
van. We had talk about the wholesale
murder OF innocent women and children.
He said the blowing up of buildings was
right" What" said he, ''are the lives of
a few women and children compared with
the holy cause of Ireland" HE said, in
reference to recent explosions, that we did
it, and he also said L intend to blow up the
house of parliament when 1t next eonvenes.'
L believe now, however, that he was delib-
erately lying. He said also that he in
tended to blow up English vessels and in
that way strike terror to English hearts.
He was a murderer, He had shown him.
self to be one"
''You have no proof except his own
: words"
''NO, but believed him. 1 now con-
slider him liar. If [ am homicidal isn't it
queer that l never shot any one before?
have carried pistol and had itIoaded,
; too, since was 16 years of age. AT that
age I was teaching in the country and there
, was great Scare about mad dogs, hydro
phobia, so that everybody, men and women,
, who were capable of carrying a revolver
! did so. l gave O'Donovan as fair a trial
as a prisoner has ever had in your court 1
shot him and am willing to
TAKE THE CONSEQUENCE.
certainly shall not appeal, even in this
land of liberty. l don't think man like
him should be permitted to go about adj
vising indiscriminate murder. ! did not
come here to shoot him, anna good nurse
and was willing to take position here.
T While in prison l was perfectly bewildered
fby offers from managers who wanted me to
lecture. l answered them all by saying
; that would consent only on condition that
ODOn0van should come with me, and |
would give practical Illustration, aided by
O'DOnOvan, of the effect of dynamite upon
/ the human frame. If this met their views
; would CO."
The jury acquitted Mrs. Dudley on the
} ground of insanity. The jury were only in
, consultation about five minutes, when they
rendered their verdict. A motion was made
to send Mrs. Dudley to the state insane
! asylum, which her counsel opposed The
: latter asked that their client might be per-
mitted to be returned to her native country
) and placed in an institution there. The
court will listen to the argument on this
/ motion on Thursday.
! LONDON, July 1.-The papers generally
comment favorably on the acquittal OF
Mrs. Yseult Dudley.
Outraged and Murdered.
. AILEGAN, Mich, June 3O.-While Cir
g cult Judge Arnold was hunting sheep in a
e patch of oak grubs west of town yesterday
: he found the dead body of Eliza Sage, an
q unmarried woman of 81 years, with bel
4 throat cut from ear to ear, and her bach
badly bruised from blow with a club OF
n hermurderer's fist Her left arInalSo showed
1 numerous bruises and the imprint of man's
? fingers and thumb on her wrist Her under.
1 clothing was torn from her body and indi-
4 cations point to a foul outrage and murder
Che coon in frxur, " evan