The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-02-03


enough to warrant the making of an ante NOR
tenn statement and the coroner was sent for
When that official arrived, ODonavan made the
following statement:
'On Saturday, Jan. 81, about p. NJ, re-
ceived a letter at my Office in Chambers street.
The message was in writing, and was delivered
by messenger boy. The note stated that a
lady wished to see me; that she was interested
in the Irish cause and desired to assist it. She
did not care to go to my office and remain wait
ing there until l came; she only would ask for
ten minutes time. The boy told me the lady
was at the telegraph Office in the Stewart build
ing, at Broadway and Chambers streets. / went
with him, and met her. l told her it
would be well to go to some hotel,
as telegraph Office was no place to talkin. 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 on Monday, Feb g at 4 o'clock. To-
went to the same telegraph Office and there met
the lady. She showed me paper which was
to sign. She then suggested that we go some
place. We walked down Chambers street
toward Broadway, when the woman stepped
back and fired two or three shots at me. One of
the balls entered my back.
JEREMIAH O'DoNovAN Rosa"
Soon after making this statement O'Donovan
said he rested easier, and added that he was
hopeful of pulling through all right
Jeremiah ODonovan has been conspicuous
figure in Irish national affairs for years. He
tackled on the work 'Rossa," which in Gaelic
means Red" after reaching this country. After
having been discharged from an English prison,
he came to this country with Thomas Francis
Bourke Dr. Denis Dowling Mulcahy,
and John Dewey, about 1869. He
was engaged in number of enterprises in
New York. having been ticket ageno for a
transatlantic line of steamers, and also a hotel
keeper He ran for State senator in the Fourth
senatorial district against William Tweed, and
was badly defeated He opened hotel at the
corner of Chatham square and Mott street, which
for a while did good business, being great re-
sort for Irish Nationalists, but custom fell
off after time and Rosa was
compelled to shut up his place. He subsequently
founded the United Irishman, a radical dyna-
mite organ, and of which sheet he is the pur-
ported editor He is ffty-three years of age, but
remarkably we'll preserved for his years. He
has wife and five children, and lives with his
family in his own house, No. 90 Duryea street,
Brooklyn.
About o'clock Mrs. Dudley asked about the
condition of Rosa, and seemed sorry when she
heard he was still alive. number of persons
called to see her, but she positively refused to
be interviewed by any one. She discarded her
steel-bowed spectacles, which, according to
Joyce, were used as a disguise.
MRS. DUDLEY's HISTORY.
Mrs Dudleys career in New York is thus
given: On Thursday Jan. o. Mrs Dudley
called at Mrs. Leggett's Home for Unemployed
Women, No 60 Clinton place. She was met by
Mrs. Brown, the matron.
''Can you accommodate me here2" asked Mrs
Dudley.
''Have you references7" asked Mrs. Brown
My reference is DIR. Thomas whom every
body knows, was the reply. aud then she added:
II am professional nurse and widow and de-
sire to stay here until can secure an engage
ment"
In telling her story of her acquaintance with
Mrs Dudley, Mrs Brown said: 'She impressed
me so very favorably that told her she might
remain in the house if she would room with TWO
young ladies. This she consented to do. Her
only luggage was valise, which she never un-
packed, because, as she one day remarked, she
might be called suddenly to attend some
patient"
did she refer; at any time. to her past do
mestic relationsl"
''She told me that she had been married and
that she had two children, but that her husband
once remarked, had been engaged in the British
cavalry service. She had acted as trained
nurse in hospitals in London and Paris and she
said she had diplomas from institutions of that
kind, but never examined these papers, though
she showed them to some of the young ladies in
the house She was thoroughly accomplished
woman, and her manners and speech betokened
thoroughbred English woman, of keen mind
and bright perceptions She was an intensely
patriotic little lady. and sarcastic and cutting at
times when speaking of those who seemed
to bring war upon her people She was
extremely near-sighted. In telling me of her
work abroad she one day said to me that she
much more enjoyed the hospital work abroad
than the nursing she had been doing here. She
said she had received $25 per week abroad, which
l know is often paid to trained nurses"
''What is the history of the movements of
Mrs. Dudley while with you!" was asked Mrs
Brown.
''As said before, she came here one week
ago Tuesday last. Tuesday is our weekly pay
day, and she paid her board up to last Tuesday
On Tuesday she came to me hurredly
and said she had case and was
going; she would take her latch
key with her, for she might
desire to return. She went, taking her valise,
and, by the way, never knew of her having a
pistol Last Thursday she returned, coming in
in the pleasantest mood possible. She said her
patient had died. Then she paid me her board
up to Tuesday to-morrow) but about O'Clock
this afternoon she came to me and said she was
going away again; that she might not return,
and if she did not she would send for her valise
| returned her her money for one days board,