The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1885-02-03
WANTED HIS LIFE.
ODonovan Rosa Shot on the
Street by a Woman.
The Wound, Though Serious, viii Not
Prove Fatal.
Great Excitement in New York,
and Londoners Jubilant.

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| NEW YORK, Feb. AT twelve minutes
after O'Clock this afternoon Jeremiah o.
Donovan, Rossa, the notorious Irish agitstor,
| was shot by woman on Chamber street near
Broadway. At that hour the streets were full
OF people making their way toward Brooklyn
| Bridge and up town and the excitement over
the shooting, although the woman was re-
oognlzedby very few, was intense The first
| shot tired took effect on O'Donoyan Rossas
body and he fell to the sidewalk, when the
woman continued to shoot until she emptied
ner I'VE ehambered revolver, but only the first
| shot took effect,
City Marshal James McAuley was present
az tne Time and breaking through the crowd
| tnat had collected, and even before the shoot
ing was over he seized the woman who still
neio the smoking pistol in one hand and told
her she was under arrest. The woman offered
no remonstrance but allowed herself to be
pulled through the mass of citizens and taken
70 the City Hall station house. George W.
Harlow and Peter Y. Everett, an ex-journalist
| who witnessed the shooting accompanied the
captor and captured to the station, saying
| they would be witnesses of the assault.
| When the woman had ceased firing Rosa
! arose to his feet and made an effort to find his
| way back to his Office ON Chamber street
which he had just left. He said 81 am shot"
and trying to place his hand on his back under
| the shoulder blade. After few steps some
body in the crowd suggested that he should
| 60 to the Chambers street hospital. A couple
OF men then lent their arms and the Irishman
changed his mind turning his direction toward
| the hospital. He walked all the way there,
distance Of nearly quarter of a mile. He
bled considerably on the way. Once there he
was disrobed and examined by DR.. Dennison
when 1t was found that the bullet had entered
his back directly below the left shoulder blade.
The doctor pronounced the wound to be not of
a dangerous character and began to probe for
the ball.
A great crowd had followed the wounded
man down Chambers street and blocked the
doorway in front of the hospital after the door
was locked behind Rosa and his escorts.
Meanwhile the woman had been taken to
the station house with another crowd follow
ing her. She was placed before Sergeant
Cass' desk and a good look at her was obtained.
Sne was good looking woman, dressed neatly
IN IN plaln' dark clothing and wore eye glasses.
She appeared like a school teacher, and with
an intellectual face. Her manner was entirely
composed and she answered some of the ques-
tions put to her promptly and without embar-
assment while to others she simply shook her
head and smiled with look which said, "l
shall only answer the questions / know YOU
have right to ask" McAulsy laid five bar.
relied pistol of small calibre before the SER
geant and said he had seen the prisoner shoot
man on Chambers street. The volunteer
witnesses asssntsd to the stated fact of shoot
ing a citizen here asked, "Do you know
the man you shot?" "Yes'', replied the pris-
oner cody and with an English accent, "I
shot O'Donovan Rossa." Further questioning
BY the sergeant ELECTED the statement that
the prisoners nameiwas Yeslet Dudley, aged
70 years; that she was nurse and married,
and that she lived at No. 60 Clinton Place. She
was asked why she shot Rosa; how long she
mad been IN America, and other questions to
which she made no answer. After her "pedi.
gree had been taken she was escorted to a
rear room and the crowd slowly dispersed.
AS there are no accommodations for prison
ers in the City Hall station, Mrs. Dudley was
removed to the Oak street station at 7.15 p. m.
and there placed in a cell. Her entire de-
meanor was that Of rational person and a
cool headed one at that.
Rosa had been placed on cot in the same
ward with Captain Phelan, who was stabbed BY
Richard Short in o'Donovan's Office over
three weeks ago, and O'Donovan was within
eight beds of Phelan. An examination Of the
wound by DIR. Kirby showed that the bullet
had penetrated the back about half an inch
above the left shoulder blade. The ball
ranged upward and inward toward the spinal
column but did not touch the vertebrs, and it
ls evidently lodged in the muscles of the back
Beyond the slight shock Rosa has suffered
little. 1t was at one time feared that the mis-
wsts 5 had hs an pat bs 5
probed unsuccessfully for the bullet and they
have concluded that no large blood vessel has
been injured, and as Rosa is fieshy, muscu-
lar man Of a robust constitution there is no
probe again for the bullet tomorrow.
Sometime after his admission to the hospital
Rosa was removed to another ward At about
6 o'clock he said that he thought his condition
was serious enough to warrant his making an
ante mortem statement, and coroner was
sent for. When that official arrived O'Dono-
van Rosa made the following statement:
Rossa's Ante-RHoRtem Statement
On Saturday, Jan. S1st, received letter at
my Office. The message was in writing and
was delivered by messenger boy. The note
stated that lady wished to see me; that she
was interested in the Irish cause, and desired
to assist it, but abe didn't care to 60 to my
office and remain waiting there Until / came.
She wanted and would ask for only ten min
utes' time. The boy told me that the lady was
at the telegraph office in the Stewart building,
corner of Broadway and Chambers street. I
went with him and l met her, told her it
would be we'll to go to some hotel, as q tele-
graph Office was no place to talk in. We came
out and went to Sweeny's Hotel We went
into the ladies' parlor, and she said she would
be able to give considerable money If anything
| good was done. She then said she would call
Monday, Feb. I'd, at o'clock. Today she sent
another message to my office, and I went to
the same telegraph office and there I met the
| lady. She showed me paper which was to
| sign, and she then suggested that we go to
| some place. We walked down Chambrrs
| street towards Broadway, when the woman
| stepped back and fred TIVE or three shots at
/ ne, anu Ou6 u LLl0 UailS 6ub6E6Q IQy DaCh
JEREMIAH O'DoNovAN Rosa.
At830 the wounded man was resting easily
| and said he was hopeful Of pulling through all
| right.
Capt. Phslan, who is still guarded by po-
| liceman, when informed of the particulars of
| the shooting smiled grimly, but refused to say
anything OF the subject The hospital was
| visited by large number OF Rossas friends.
| All of them were determined looking chaps
and they gathered in groups and discussed the
l attempted assassination in OMNIBUS whispers.
| W. j. Burke,a pronounced dynamiter shouted
"you can kill Rosa, but you can't kill the
| idea"
| To reporter Rossa said: sit was a premedi-
| tated affair, and this woman was simply the
engine by which the dastardly work was ac-
complised. She had no private revenge to
| crafty No relative of hers had been injured
| in the English explosions. 1t is the work OF
the English government, whose policy
has always been to assassinate the men
She is the agent of the British minister
or somebody else. This woman came to me
and said she was Irish, but her husband did
not sympathize with the cause of Ireland. She
was rabid in her views on dynamite; she said
the London explosions were no good and
wanted horrible sacrifice of life to strike
terror to the hearts of IrelanG's enemies. I
told her l was not engaged in that business
and received no money for such purposes,
but only to help the Irish cause. She reiter-
| dtou tudG tAOubduuo VI l1toS SHOulu U6 bACTluC6u
in London. I had been to see my printer at 4
O'Clock when 1 started out to meet her. She
wanted me to sign receipt for the money, but
the receipt contained the word dynamite and ]
declined to sigu it. I put the paper in my
pocket and walked out with her. She is
nothing more or less than an agent of the
British government employed to assassinate
me-"
What the Dynanlifers Say.
Patrick Joyce, the trusted lieutenant oil
Rosa, came to his chief shortly after the latter
was wounded. Rossa turned over all his
papers to Joyce, and among them were Letters
from Mrs Dudley. Joyce was loud in his de-
nunciation of the cowardly attempt to slaugh
ter the great dynamiter and charged it to Eng
land at once: "Of course, it was the outcome
o. conspiracy on the part of England to rid
the world of Rosa, whom she breads an6
fears He is not dead, and England will FIND
it out to her sorrow soon enough"
Great excitement prevails among Ross's ad-
mirers and although they said little or nothing
they manifested great anxiety as to his condi-
tion and were greatly relieved when they
found his recovery was regarded as quite Ger
tain. Mrs. Rosa was admitted to see hel
husband at 10 tonight and their meeting wa
affecting.
who is Mrs Dudley