The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1885-02-12
RoSsA SHOT.
Americas Famous Dynamite
Chieftain Brought to Earth
by q Weman
The Back Of the Irisman Perforated
By One Of Five Large
Bullets.


New York special
slender young woman, neatly clad in
black and wearing steel bowed eye glasses,
sent summons to O'Donovan Rosa to
meet her in Chambers street, near Broad
way, at this afternoon. She had previous
ly met Rosa. and he fastened to respond
to her message, which was delivered to him
in his Office, No. IL Chambers street, by
District Telegraph boy. Rosa walked
from his Office to the place of rendezvous
without any suspicion of impending danger.
The greeting between the young woman
and Rossa is described by those who wit
messed it as being cordial. Tie couple re-
NAMED standing on the sidewalk about
two hundred feet from Broadway
for two or three minutes and con-
versed in low tones. Then they stepped
into the corridor leading from Chambers
street into the Stewart Building. After o
while they reappeared, and Rosa turned
his face toward Broadway and started to
walk away. The woman took a few steps
with him, then stopped. raised her right
arm, and there were afhash and loud re-
poit. Rosa turned quickly, and beheld
her within six feet of him, with a smoking
revolver in her hand. A second report fol-
lOWc1 uuOhA luliucuAdttky, anu TIC dSbdlltu
man instinctively missed his hands, as il to
shield his head. The young woman stood
perfectly still and fired three more shots at
Rosa. The bullets ratified on the stone
and glass Of the Stewart Building.
City Marshal James McAuley was present
at the time, and, breaking through the
crowd that had collected even before the
shooting was over, seized the woman. who
still held the smoking pistol in her hand,
and told her she was under arrest. The
woman offered no remonstrance, but al
lowed herself TO be taken through the mass
of citizens and to the City Hall Station
House. George w. Barlow, merchant Of
lac Reade street and Peter Y. Everett, for
merly o reporter, who Witnessed the shoot
ing. accompanied captor and captive to the
station, saying they would be witnesses.
When the woman had ceased firing
O'Donovan arose to his feet and made an
effort to find his way back to his office on
Chambers street, which he had just left.
He said: Il am shot, trying to place his
hand on his back under his shoulder blade.
After a few. steps somebody in the crowd
suggested that he should go to the Cham
bers Stree Hospital. A couple Of men lent
their arms, and O'Donovan did as suggested
and directed his steps toward the hospital.
He walked all the way ihere, stance of
nearly quarter of mile. He bled con-
siderably on the way. Once in the hospital
he was undressed and examined by Dr..
DennisOn.
1t was found that the bullet had entered
his back directly below the left shoulder
blade. The doctor pronounced the wound
not of a dangerous character and began to
probe for the ball. A great crowd of people
had followed the wounded man down Cham
bers street and blocked the roadway in front
of the hospital after the door was locked
behind O'Donovan Rosa and his escort.
Rosa had been placed in cot in the
same ward with Captain Phelan, who was
stabbed by Richard Short in ODonovan's
Office several weeks ago. O'Donovan was
within eight beds of Phelan. An
examination of the wound by DIR. Kirby
showed that the bullet had penetrated the
back about half an inch above the
left shoulder blade. The boil ranged up
ward and inward toward the spinal column.
but did not touch the vertebr@. The bullet
is evidently lodged in the muscles Of the
back, and beyond slight shock Rosa has
suffered little. 1t was at one time learned
that the ballet had penetrated the lung, but
as the wounded man had expectorated no
blood, this was afterward pronounced i'm
possible. Had the spinal column been
injured there would have been signs OF
paralysis, but none appeared. The doctors
probed unsuccessfully for the bullet. They
concluded that no large blood-vessel had
been injured, and as ODonovan is fieshy,
muscular man of robust constitution there
was no danger to be apprehended.
Ressa, insthe Chambers Street Hospital,
made the following statement to Coroner
Kennedy: Saturday, Jan. 81. about p.
m, received a letter at my Office. No. II
Chambers street. The message was In
writing and was deliveredby a messenger
boy. The note stated that woman wished
to see me; that she was interested in the
Irish cause and desired to assist it. She
did not care to 60 to my Office and remain
waiting there until / came. She would
only ask for ten minutes time, and the boy
told me the woman was at the telegraph
Office in the Stewart Building, Broadway
and Chambers street. went with him and
met her. I told her it would be we'll to go
to some hotel. as the telegraph Office wassno
place TO talk in. Wecame out and went to
Sweeney's Hotel. We went into the Ia
dies .parlor. and she said she would be
able to give considerable money IL any
thing good was done. She then said she
would call Monday. Feb. 2, at A p. m. To-
day she sent another message to my Office
and / went to the same telegraph Office
and there ! met the woman. She showed
me a paper which twas to sign. She then
suggested that we go to some place. We
walked down Chambers street toward
Broadway. and when we got n short dis
lance the woman stepped back and fired
two or three shots at me. One of the balls
onfara1 had -