, 1885-01-10
BORING FOR BLOOD.
O'Donovan Rossa's Dynamiters
Wild-eyed for Human Vitals.
Shooting and Slashing Each
Other With Wild Freedom.
One Invincible Dying in a
New York Hospital.
A symphony in Blood.

hour this afternoon several men rushed
out of No. -, Chambers street, in which
building is located the office ofO'Donovar
Rosa and the United Lrishman. In 0
few seconds a man covered with blood
tottered down the stairs to the hallway
and sank on the front stoop, while his
blood covered the sidewalk in a stream.
The mort intense excitement at once en-
sued aud crowds iocked to the scene.
Several officers rushed up and seeing a
few men making towards Chambers street
and the City Hall, followed them. One
of them, a tall man was captured and
brough back to where the dying man was
lying.
lis this the man who stabbed your"
asked the officer.
"Yes, that is the man" said the bleed
ing man, ''but, by heavens, if I'm going
to die, I'll die game, and there will be two
of us"
With that, and before the bystanders
could realize his intentions he drew a re-
volver and fired two shots in quick sue
cession at the man standing before him,
one of the balls took effect in the thigh of
his would be murderer. This still further
increased the excitement and the neigh
borhood became wild with all sorts Of ru-
mons.
The man who was stabbed proved to be
Captain Thomas f. Phelan, of Kansas
City, aged 40, and his assailant, whom he
says stabbed him, raw ais name Is Rich
ard Short, of No. SOL, Tenth avenue.
An ambulance was summoned and Phe-
Ian was taken to the Chambers street hos
pital dying. He is stabbed in the neck
and breast and several other places.
There were rumors that he gave away
some of the secrets Of the Fenian organi-
zation. A printer named Schmidt, who
had composing room on the same floor
next to O'Donovan Rossa's Office, said:
81 was standing at my work. Suddenly
l heard a noise in Rossa's office with the
upsetting Of a table, followed by loud,
angry words and curses. This continued
for some seconds, when something heavy
was thrown against the wall A man
cried out something that sounded like
"help," but l 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 other out
of the way. Blood was trucking down
the face of the last man. They were half
way down the stairs when the man with
blood trickling down his face got the lead
of the others. | then ran and opened the
window of our Office, which looks out on
chambers vtraat Than 7 s.w tho man
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WIN pioou on ms iace iaii On Tue s'us"AiA'
put ms hand to his mp pocket pull a re-
volyer, and iife at enc of the three men,
which one I cannot tell as 7 did not oct n
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soou iooA AZ MN 'un' no"e'ei' nc
u have Deen shot, because he pulled
up his coat, placed his hand to his back
and stumbled forward as If he was going
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W IAN y" nus iaoe S.k
Oh the corner caught MN D. tne snouiuer
and arrested him. A great crowd OF peo-
pie gathered around the man lying on the
sidewalk Several firemen came runn;ng
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DOWN tne slrce' anu IL something ior
him in the way OF dashing water in his
face and giving him whisky.
.sDid vou see O'Donovan Rosa among