The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1885-02-13

q note from messenger boy, r8yiu9 tnat
lady desired to see me at the Stewart
building. went there and she told me
that she was q friend Of the Irish cause
ana that she had large sum Of money 20
hello the cause along. After . brief
conversation we adjourned 70 Sweeney's
Hotel, where an appointment
was made for to-day. This
afternoon the same boy came with
q note stating thar the lady desired
10 see me In the Stewart build
ipr. I went there, and the woman
pt.,,luced paper which she wanted me
10 .lyn on behalf Of dynamite. told her
inst 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 go
somewhere else. We went cut togctners
and on reaching the sidewalk the woman
fell lack and pulled out pistol and COM
menccd 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.
Mrs. Rosa arrived at the hospital at
ten O'Clock, and was immediately taken
| 10 her husbands side. She was appar-
| emily greatly moved at his condition.
Rosa, In conversation with an init mate
friend tonight, said that his attempted
assassination was the work OF the En-
! gish Government. He didn't know the
woman who shot him, or anything OF her
antccedcnts, and Is far as he knew 10
1 relatives Of hers had been injured Oy re-
I &c explosions In London. lie had not
the least doubt that 1t was q p,emedl-
tated conspiracy 70 kill him. He didn't
believe that Prof. Mexzeroh had snything
10 do with the conspiracy, and firmly be-
lieyed that 1t was the work OF the British
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 mas
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
trained nurses. and came here with the
intention Of starting female hospital on
small scale. Finding the opportunity
difficult, they engaged as nurses.
One of the trio was . 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 position In the
same institution
The superintendent Of the hospital
says that while Mrs. Dudley was = good
, nurse, she did not give entire salts
! faction, and her actions were rather singu-
lar. She was not popular will the Other
! nurses. She left suddenly, saying she
had lease" to attend to-; but she
E went to Dr. Thomas private hospital
in Lexington avenue, exhib ted diplomas
4 from London hospitals, and secured i'm
+ mediate employment
DIR. Thomas says that she was an ex-
8 cellent nurse, but did not get along well
: with the other nurses, and after q month
Q he let her 60, together with Miss
g Chalmers, whom she had induced the
/ doctor to employ.
u, The other nurses said that the two
u women acted strangely, but they could
not specify in what particular. They did
T, not seek other company.
Ie From the Thomas Hospital Mrs. bud
G. lev went to Miss Leggctt's Home fol
{. Working Women In Clinton Place, and
e boarded until last Monday, when she
q told the manager Of the house that she
G. had case, and would give up her room
+ She went away, but came back Wednes
e day afternoon, saying:
s ..My patient has died; can you accom-
:. modatc me again."
y She was again given room, for which
= she paid in advance until tomorrow
= (Tucsday).
;. Yesterday afternoon she returned the
!, key to the manager, saying she was coins
y out and did not think she would return
= and would send for her baggage. Sh'
= seemed excited and nervous.
z, ssDid she ever allude, while here, 4
mr. Iffaff
q asked porter Of the manager OF tn
Home.
le .sShe toll me she had been married am
r had two children, bit that they had die'
y abroad. Her father, she said, was non
ot commissioned officer in the cavalry sci
% vice, aud that she had repeated.
y. acted as trained nurse 4
r. London hospitals and also In Paris. Sh
cr also said that she had diplomas from va
As rious institutions, and, 1 believe, SD
3. has shown them TO some OF the othe
d Young women. She WAS thorough
&C ompllshcd woman, and her manner
and speech betokened thorougnDre
x English woman o. keen mind aud brigi
no perceptions. She Is intensely patriotic
i'm ana often spoke Of the English soldiel
n. Tier conversation at times was sarcasti
and cutting, when speaking Of thos
RI who were making war on the Englis
people.
ng One day she said she much more e
p loved the hospital work abroad than II
as nursing she had been doing here. 81
ey declared she received S25 week Their
ca while her pay here was only $40
TO- month.
In the parlor OF Miss Leggett's Hon
l bcvy OF ung ladies were talkln
about Mrs. Dudley's deed.
~. .sShe was almost crazy with excitcme
or, A week ago Sunday" said one, 'swh'
she heard OF the explosions In Londo
use She said America should give up Rosa
England, and yesterday when she heal
er, Of the explosion on Grand street, she vi
vas acaiu very much excited"