Huntsville gazette., 1885-02-07

uOIe from messenger DOy, saying tnat
a lady desired to see me at the Stewart
building. went there and she told me
that she was friend of the Irish cause,
| and that she had a large sum of money to
| help the cause along. After a brief
conversation we adjourned to Sweeney's
Hotel, where 9 an appointments
afternoon the same boy came with
a note stating that the lady desired
to see me in the Stewart build
| ing. l. went there, and the woman
| produced a paper which she wanted me
| to sign on behalf of dynamite. told her
| that | was not receiving money for that
purpose. She then remarked that the
| place was too public to transact the bus
| mess, and suggested that we should 60
| somewhere else. We went out together,
| and on reaching the sidewalk the woman
| fell back and pulled outa pistol and COM
menced firing. The first shot struck me
| in the back, and fell from the shock.
was assisted up by stranger and taken
to Chambers Street Hospital. -, f.e ,.t
Mrs. Rossa arrived at the hospital at
| ten O'Clock, and was Immediately taken
| to her husbands side. She was appar-
emily greatly moved at his condition.
Rosa, in conversation with an intimate
friend tonight, said that his attempted
assassination was the work of the En-
| glish Government. He didn't know the
woman who shot him, or anything of her
| antecedents, and as far as he knew 10
relatives of hers had been injured by re-
cent explosions in London. He had not
the least doubt that it was a premedi-
tated conspiracy to kill him. He didn't
believe that Prof. Mezzeroff had anything
dy>x nd
| lieved that it was the work of the British I.
Government to put him out of the way.
THE WOMAN WHO SHOT HIM.
| The woman who attempted the life Of
Rossa is named Lucille Ysuelt Dudley.
She is widow and says her husband and
| two children are dead. She is about
| twenty-five years old. She says she has
been employed as nurse in the principal
hospitals of London and Paris. She came,
to New York last September in company
with two other young women. All were
I trained nurses, and, came here with the.
intention of starting female hospital on
small scale. Finding the opportunity
difficult, they engaged as nurses. =
T One of the trio was a Miss Chalmers.
She had friends in Newark, and the
three went there. Afterward Miss
Chalmers got place in Roosevelt Hospi-
tai, New York, and few days later got
her friend, Mrs Dudley a position in the
same institution.- a-
The superintendent of the hospital
says that while Mrs. Dudley was a good
nurse, she did not give entire salts
faction, and her actions were rather Singu
lar. She was not popular with the other
nurses. She left suddenly, saying she
had cease" to attend to; but she
went to DR.. Thomas private hospital
in Lexington avenue, exhib ted diplomas
from London hospitals, and secured i'm
mediate employment. sas v-.4sag~1 &.
| DIR. Thomas says that she was an ex-
cellent nurse, but did not get along well
with the other nurses, and after a month
he let her Z go, together with Miss
Chalmers, whom she had induced the
doctor to employ.
The other nurses said that, the two
women acted strangely, but they could
not specify in what particular. They did
not seek other company. .s-ea-s..
| From the Thomas Hospital Mrs. Dud-
ley went to Miss Leggett's Home for
Working Women in Clinton Place, and
boarded until last Monday, when she
told the manager of the no use that she
had case, and would give up her room.
day afternoon, saying:
"My patient has died; can you accom-
modate me again% a - l
She was again given a room, for which
she paid IN advance until tomorrow
(Tuesday). -
Yesterday afternoon she returned the
Key to the manager, saying she was going
out and did not think she would return,
and would send for her baggage. She
seemed excited and nervous.
| "Did she ever allude, while here, to
| her past domestic relations or life?"
asked.ar + porter of the manager of the
Home. l.. .,.z5.,.-st -. ..s.-..-..
=, "She tol me she had been married and
had two children, b It that they had died
| abroad. Her father, she said, was nom
/ commissioned officer in the cavalry ser
| vice, and that she had repeatedly
acted as trained nurse In
London hospitals and also in Paris. She
also said that she had diplomas from va
rious Institutions, and, II believe, she
has shown them to some OF the other
Young women. She was a thoroughly
I &C omplishcd woman, and her manners
and speech betokened thoroughbred
! English woman O. keen mind and bright
perceptions. She is intensely patriotic,
1 and often spoke OF the Engllsn soldler.
Her conversation at times was sarcastic
and cutting, when speaking OF those
who were making war on the English
4 people. ...t...- ..sy.
+. One day she said she much more en-
loved the, hospital work abroad than the
+ nursing she had been doing here. She
declared she received $25 a. week there,
while her pay here was only $50
month. A-
In the parlsr of Miss Leggett's Home
bevy of ,ung ladies were talking
i about Mrs. Dudley's deed. s... VI.
"She was almost crazy with excitement
q week ago Sunday" said one, "when
she heard of the explosions in London.
She said America should give up Rosa 70
England, and yesterday when she heard
of the explosion on Grand street, she was
again very much excited. /" 5.J
Boise W. THE NEWS IN ENGLAND. l----
4 sy.zs -aa5 u. v..s LONDON, February .. D.
! News of the shooting OF Rosa was pul-
letiped in this city at midnight. 1t caused
oraat aycitement among the people