The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-02-03


10 sign. She then suggested we 60 to some place.
We walked down to Chambers street toward
Broadway, and we got short distance toward
Broadway when the woman stepped back and
fired two or three shots 81 me. One OF the balls
en- cred my back JEREMIAH O'DoNoyAN Rosa.
Soon after making this state ment O'Don-
ovsn rested easier, and said he was hopeful
Of pulling through all right.
Captain Phelau. VINO i still guarded by
policeman, when informed OF the particu-
lars Of the shooting smiled grlmly. but re
fused TO say anything on the subject.
The Office OF the Chambers street Hospital
was visited by large numbe of Rossa's
friends tonight, all of them determine1-
looking chaps, and they gathered in groups
twos and threes and discussed in whispers
the attempted assassi nation of the arch
dynamiter."
John Roche, whose dynamite operations
have been confined TO speeches Ia the
Fourth Ward, furtively eyed each visitor 10
the institution, and from time TO time disap
pesred to talk TO some parties on tAe OUT
side.
Algernon S. Sullivan, Public Admins.ra-
tor, had read the news IL an extra" aud
dropped in to see if the story was true Hs
was not permitted to see Rosa and vanished
shortly after.
W. !. Burke, pronounced dynamiter,
sbcpted, You can kill Rosa, bat you can't
Kill the iGea."
To reporter Rosa said: 1T was pre-
ply the engine by which the dastardly work
was accomplished. She had no private
revenge TO crafty, no rt fative OF hers had
been injured in the English explosion. II
is the work of the English Government,
whose policy il has ways been to aSssssi-
nate when they could not otherwise reach.
She is the agent of the British Minister or
somebody lse This woman came to me
and sale that she was Irish, bat
that her bus5lnd did not sympsthlze
with the cause of Ireland. She was rabid in
her views on dynamite. She said the Lon
don explosion ws5 no good, and wanted a
horrible sacrifice of life TO strike terror 10
the hearts of Irelauo's enemies. ] told her /
wss not engaged in that 1siness and ] re-
ceived no money for such purposes, bat only
TO help the Irish cause. She reiterated that
! Thousands of lives should be sacrificed in
London. lad been TO see my printer at
o'clock when / started out TO
meet her she wanted ne to sign a recei OF for
money. The receipt contained the word
dynamite, and declined to sign it. I put
paper in my pocket and walked out with
her. She is nothing more or less than an
sSent OF the British Government, employed
TO sssassinate.
Patrick Joyce. the trusted Lieutenant of
Rots9, came TO his chief shortly after Rosa
was wounded. Rosa turned over to, him all
were the letters from Mrs. Dudly.
Joyce wss loud in his denunciation OF the
cowsrdly attempt to slaughter the great
dynsmiter, and charged it was "E0gland's
work. at once. OF course it was the oct.
come OF conspiracy on the part of England
to rid the world of Rosa, whom she dresds
and feaIs. There is no question but what
the friends OF ngland in New York knew
al about the plot, and the woman was the
tool selected TO carry il into execution
They selected woman for the deed he
cause they bad no man among
them brave enough TO attack him.
He has received scores of threatening letters,
but paid no more attention to them than he
would 10 flea. He is dead and Englsnd
will fDd it out TO her sorrow soon en- Ough "
Joyce went 10 the Oak Street Station to see
if he could identity Mrs. Dudley as an Eng
lish woman who had been befriended by
Rosa about a year ago. He was refused
admission to her, bat wben he heard a de-
soription of the prisoner he concluded
it did not tally with that of
the other woman ROssss admirers
were greatly relieved when they found
his recovery Was regarded as quite Certain.
Walker j. Elliott and Patrick Joyce went
to Brooklyn and broke the tidngs.of Ro5ss's
attempted assassination to his wife. Sic
received the tidings calmly. She imme-
diately started for New York and reached
the hospital at 10 o'clock, when she was T.
mitted at once 10 her husbands bedside.
Their meeting was quite affecting
About : last night Mrs. Dudley asked
about the condition OF Rossa and seemed
sorry when she heard that he was still alive.
A number of persons called to see her, bit
she positively refused to be interyieWed b,
any ore. She ditcarded her steel-bowe
spectsClss, which, according to Joyce, we
used as disguise. Mrs. Dndleys career H.
New York is thus given:
Thursday, January 22, Mrs Dudley cailed
at Mrs. leggetts home for unemployec
women, No. GO Clinton Place. Sue was me,
by Mrs Brown, the matron. Can you &C
commodste nee here" asked Mrs. Dudley
Have you references asked. Mrs. Brown
My reference is DR.. Thomas whom every
body knows was the reply, aud then 50,
added, 81 am a professional nurse an0
widow
I desire to stay here until I secure or
engagement. In telling her story of he
acquaintance with Mrs. Dudley, Mrs
Brown, ton ight, said "She impressed me
so very favorablY that / told Der she might
remsjn in the house ii she would room with
two young ladies. This she consented to do
Her only luggage was valise, which she
never unpacked, because. as she one day
remarked, she might be called sudde My to
attend to some patient"
Did she refer at any time to her past
domestic relations?n she told me she had
been married and had two chill dren, but
that her husband and children had died
abroad. her tsther, she once remarked,
bad been engaged in the British cavalry
service. She bad acted as trained
nurse in hospitals in London aud
Paris, and she said she had diplomas from
institutions of that kind, but have never
examined them, though she showed them
TO some of the young tadies in the house
She wss a thoroughly accomplished woman
and her manners and speech betokened
thoroughbred English woman of keen
mind and bright perceptions She
was sn intensely patriotic little
LADY, and sarcastic and cutting
at times when speaking OF those who seemed
20 bring wsr on her people. She was ex
tIemely 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 had been doing here
She said she had received s25 per week