The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1885-01-15
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NKw YcaK, Jan. g.-kt late hour
this afteFnoon several men rushed outof
No II Chambers street, In which bald
ing il located the Office Of O'Donovan
Rosa and the United States IEishman.
In q few seconds afterWard q man COW
cred with blood fosterod down the stairs
n, the hallway AID sank on the front
STOOD wai,s his blood COVERED the side
walk IN 8 stream. The most intense ex-
cltement al once took piace and crowds
floeked TO the ecene. Several officers
rushed up and seeing few men making
toward Chambers street and the city hall,
followed them. One of them. tall
man, Was captured and brought back TO
where the DYING man was lying.
us this the man that stabbed you"
asked the officer? ayes, that is the
man." said the
BLEEDING NAN,
~but, by heavens. II am going to die,
I'll die game. and there will be two of
u.s." With that. and before the by
ISLANDERS could realize his Intentions, he
drew 9 revolver and fired two shots in
quick succession as the man standing
before him. One of the balls took effect
in the thigh of this would-be murderer.
This still further increased the excite.
ment and the neighbofhood became wild
with all sorts OF rumoTs. The man who
was stabbed proved 20 be Capt. Thomas
b. Phelan of Kansas City, aged AZ, and
his assailant. whom he says stabbed him.
gave his name as Richard Short, 661
10th avenue An ambulance was sum-
moned and Phelan taken to the Cham
bers street hospital diving He is stab
bed in the neck and beast and several
OF MI -
he gave away
SOME or THE SECRETS
Of the Fenisn organization.
A printer named schmidt, who has
composing room on the same floor. next
TO O'DonoYsn Rossa's Office, said: Il
was standing at my work when sudden.
" heard a noise in Roesa's Office. with
the upsesting of a table, followed by
loud, angry words and curses. This con-
tinued for some seconds, when something
heavy was thrown against the wall and
q man cried out something that sounded
like help but 1 am not sure whether
that was the word or not. Then the
door was banged open and four men ran
down stairs, each trying TO push the 9TH
er out of his way. Blood was tricklIng
down the face of the last man. They
were half way down when the man with
blood running down his face got ahead
of the others. then ran TO a0d opened
the window of our Office which looked
ont on Chambers street Then 1 keW
the man with blood on his face fall on
the sidewalk, put his hand in his hip
pocket, pull out q revolver and fire at
one OF the three men. / did not get q
good look at him. think, however. he
must have been shot because hs pulled
up bis coat, placed his hand to his back
and stumbled forward as If he was going
IN fall on his face. A policeman stand
ing on the corner caught him by the
shoulder and arrested him. A great
CROWD OF PEOPLE
gathered around the man lying on
the sidewalk Several firemen came
running down the street and did some
thing in the way of dashing water in his
iace and giving him whisky.
"D.d YOU see O'Douovan Rosss among
the four men," Mr.. Schmidt was asked.
II can't say l did,"
The police clam to ha 8 letter from
r 'ssa to the wounded m an, selling him
20 come On to New York t. his Office,
that he had important business for him
10 attend 10.
Phelan was asked by fireman C.,ttrell
il he wanted minister or priest, NO."
he replied, al don't want Anybody l
don't believe in any religion. | an q
follower OF Bob I0gersoli Z"
News of the stzbbinH and shooting
epread rapidly, and inquiries were made
On all sides as to Phelan and Snort.
Pnelan appeared t. be known by many
men "a Ident fed with several revolu
tiOnery SOCIETIES Rosa was condemned
by a Number OF his compatriots for v
log pub icatioD in his paper this week
to an interview printed in the Kansas
Cts Journal, purported to be had with
Phe!an, giving details of the Ope: atoms
of
THE uYNAMTTERs
i'll England. Threats were made against
Rossa's life. and 1t is said'his immediate
frIen1s had determined 10 form a body
quad to protect him. Short. it was
stated, came to this country with the
man VINO, in the summer of 1882, shot at
jim McDermOtt in Captain Ryan's bar
rom In Chambers street. He is said to
be native of Cork, where he was one
Of the principal leaders in the move
meut described by O'DOnOvan Rrssa.
long interview in the Kansas CitV