The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1885-02-04
WOMAN DID IT.


A WOMAN DID TT.
O,Donov.n Rossa shse by Jeslst Dudley
I'm the Streets.
NEW YORK, Feb. z, 5 p. m.-The
shooting of O'Donovan Rosa took
place at II minutes past 2 o'clock.
He is still alive. He was In front of
the Stewart building on Chambers
street when he was approached by q
handsome young lady dressed plain
". She wore spectacles and had the
appearance of an intelligent school
teacher. She drew a five barreiaed
revolver from her dress pocket and
l-yeled it at Rosa and fired n shot.
Rosa threw his hand above
his head and cried "I'm shot, He
then fell heavily to the side walk.
The woman then fired the remaining
bullets n her pistol at the PROSTATE
man and uneonceruedly walked OH
with the smoking revolver In ner
hand. She was followed by q large
crowd while q still larger mob sur
rounded the wounded dynamiter.
City Marshal James McAuley, in the
ABSENCE of q policeman, saw the re-
vOlver in the womans hand and ar
rested her. She was conducted to
the 28th precinct staiiJn house. In
the city hall her ccOlness of demeanor
was remarkable when arraigned at
the sergents desk. The woman who
shot Rosa gives her name as Jeslet
Dudley.
NEW YORK, Feb. AT twelve
minutes after 5 this afternoon Jere-
miah O'Donovan Rosa, the Irish
dynamiter," 80 called, was shot by a
woman on Chambers street, near
Broadway. At that hour the streets
were full OF people, homeward bound.
making their way toward the Brook
lyE bridge.
The excitement over it, although
the man was recognized by very few.
was intense. The first shot fired
took effect in Rossa's body, and he
fell to the sidewalk. The woman
continued to shoot until she had
emptied a five-chambered revolver.
Only the first shot took effect. The
city marshal, Jas. McCauley, was
present at the time. and, breaking
through the cr'wd that had COL
lectpd even before the shooting was
v seized the woman who still
held her smoking pistol in her hand
and told her Sc was under
arrest. The woman off red no
remonstrance, but allowed her
self to be taken through the
mass of cit Gems to tie City Hall STA
ton house. G. w. Barlow, a mer-
chant of 146 Reade street, and G. Ev-
erett, a reporter, who witnessed the
shooting, acc Dmpanied the captor and
captive TO the station, saying they
would be witness 8. When the wo-
mar had ceased firing Old 1nova1
rose to his feet and made efforts to
find his way bach to his office on
Chambers street, which he had 'st
left. He said, II am shot," and
tiled to place his hand on his back
under the shoulder blade. After q
few steps somebody in the crowd
suggested he should go to Chamber
Street Hospital. A couple of men
put their arms about him and O'D,n-
ivan did a. suggested and direc'ed
his steps toward the hospital. He
walked all the way there, tue dis
lance being nearly a quarter offs mile.
He bled Considerably on the way
Once in the hospital he was undressed
and examined by DR.. Dennison.
It Was found that the bullet had
ente. ed the back directly below the
left shoulder blade. The doctor pro.
nounced the wound not of q danger
GUS character, and began to probe for
the ball. A great crowd of people
followed the wounded man down
Chambers street and blOckaded the
in front Of the hospital.
Meanwhile the m had heen
taken to the station house, with
al other crowd following. She was
placed before Sergeant Ross desk.
She was q good looking woman,
d,essed neatly in plain dark clothing,
and wore eyeglasses. She alp AIRED
like a school teacher, with q very in
t~ellectual face. Her manner was er-
tirely composed. sn1 she answered
some OF the questi. ms put 10 her
promptly and without embarrass-
ment. TO others she simply shook
her head and smiled, with a look
that said, II shall only an
swer questions, I know YOU have
a right 20 ask" Mct:auley handed
the pistol, a small calibre, to the
. ergeant, and SAID he had seen the
prisoner shoot a man on Chambers
street, and volunteer witnesses as
t. the stated facts of the shoot
A citizen here asked: "Do you
know the man you shot7'
"Yes," replied the prisoner, coolly,
With an English accent.
II shot O'DonOvan Rossa."
Further questioning by the ser
geant elected the statement that the
name was JesIet Dudley, |
aged Is, and that she was a nurse
and married, and that she lived at |
No. so Clinton Place. She was asked
why she shot O'Donevan, how long
she had been in America and other
questions to which she made no an
swer. After her pedigree had been
she was escorted to q rear
room and the crowd slowly dispersed. !
As there are no accommodations for.
prisoners in the city hall station Mr..
Dudley was removed to the Oak
street station and there placed in q
coll.
Her entire demeanor was that of q |
rational person, and q c~oOl-headed |
one at that.
Rosa has been placed N a cot In
the same ward with Capt. Phelan,
who was stabbed by Short in O'Don-
office over three weeks ago.
O'Donovan "a within eight beds of
Phelan. Beyond a slight shock Rosa
has suffered but little. It was at one
Lime feared the bullet had penetrated
the lining, but as the wounded man
had expectorated no blood, this was
afterwards pronounced impossible.
Had the spinal column been touched
here would have been signs of par
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