The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1885-02-13
nossA SHOT.

o'DoHovAN RossA SHOT.
a Young English Woman In New York
Shoots Down O'Donovan Rosa in the
street-But he WILL Recover. r.
New York Special:-At 5:12 o'clock on the
afternoon of the I'd inst, Jeremiah OrDonovan
Rosa, the "lrish dynamiter, SO called, was
shot by a woman on Chambers street, near
broadway. AT that hour the streets were full Of
people homeward bound, making their way to-
ward Brooklyn bridge and up town. The excite
Ment over the shooting, although the man was
recognized by very few, was intense. The
first shot fired took effect in ODonovan's body
and he fell to the sidewalk. The woma con-
unued to shoot until she emptied her five
chambered revolver. Only the first shot took
effect City Marshal James McCauley was
present, and, breaking through the crowd that
had collected there 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 She offered no remon-
STRANGE, but allowed herself to be taken through
the mass of citizens and to the city hall station
house. When tho woman had ceased firing
ODonovan 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, 81 am
Shot trying, to place his hand on his back I'M
der his shoulder blade.
After a few steps somebody in the crowd
suggested that he should go to the Chambers
Street hospital. A couple of men lent their
arms, and ODonoyan did AZ suggested and
directed his steps toward the hospital. He
walked all the way there, nearly a quarter
Of a mle. He bled considerably on the way.
Once in the hospital, he was undressed and ex-
amined by DR.. Dennison. 1t was found that
the bullet had entered the back directly below
the shoulder blade. The doctor pronounced
the wound not ofa dangerous character, and
began to probe for the ball. Rosa has suf-
fered but little and there are no
doubts of his recovery. The woman's
name is Yseult Dudley, age twenty-fve; that
she was a nurse and married, and that she
lived at 60 Clinton place. She was asked why
she shot ODonovan, how long she had benin
America and other questions, to which she
made no answer. Her entire demeanor was
that OF rational person, and a cool-headed one.
To a reporter Rosa said:
1t was a premeditated affair, and this woman
was simply Tie engine by which the dastardly
work was accomplished. She had no private
revenge to crafty. No relative of hers has been
injured in an EngEsh explosion. 1t is the work
of the English government, whose policy bts al
ways been to assassinate men it could not 9TH
erwise reach. She is the agent of the British
minister or somebody else. This woman came
to me and said she was Irish, but that her hus-
a did not sympathize with the cause of Ire
land. She WAS rabid in her views on dynamite,
She said the London explosions were no good,
and wanted q horrible "a critic e of life, to strike
terror to the hearts of Ireland's enemies. l told
her l was not engaged in that business, and I re-
cleved no money for such purposes, but only to
help the Irish cause. She reiterated that thou
sands of lives should be sacrificed in London.
had been to sec my printer at 4 o'clock,
when / started out to meet her. She wanted
me to sign q receipt for money. The receipt
contained the word dynamite and 1 refused
walked out ' with h ea' Shelf shpe is m nothing aS po1 more se or
less than an agent Of the British government
employed to assassinato me.
MRS. DuDLEY's CAREER
in New York il thus given: Thursday, Jan.
q, Mrs. Dudley called at Mrs. Legget's home
for unemployed women, No. 60 Clinton place.
She was met by Mrs. Brown, matron.
Can you accommodate me here?" asked
Mrs. Dudley.
'Haye you references?:" asked Mrs. Brown.
my reference; IS DR.. Thomas whom every
body knows" was the reply; and she then
added: 81 am a professional nurse and a Wild
ow, and desire to stay here until / secure an
engagement"
In telling the story of her acquaintance
with Mrs. Dudley, Mrs. Brown said:
"She impressed me go favorably that told
her she might remain in the house if she would
consented to do. Her only baggage was a va
lise, which she never unpacked, because, as
she one day remarked, she might be called sud
denly to attend some patient"
In the parlor at Mrs. Leggetts house the
young ladies talked of Mrs. Dndley's deed:
SShe was almost crazy with excitement one
week ago Sunday when she read of the explo-
sions in London said one of the group. eShe
said America should give up Rosa to England.
Then on Sunday last. whenshe heard of the ex-
piosions in Grand street, she was again very
much excited. She had a I number of copies OF
Rossa's paper. and Sunday she said she had had
All interview with Rosa the day before, and she
said she had Rossa's word for it she could get a
ton of dynamite in New York: that she heard
him say he knew and was in league with those
whe made il, and he did not care if they stopped
its expectation or importation. Then she
added: Somebody will get even with ODon-
ovan Rosa yet never knew SHE had q pis-
tol, but | offered to lend her mine" +
The black-eyed young woman concluded by
saying that she believed Mrs. Dudley was tenn
porarily insane on the subject of dynamite a.
used againsther country.