The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1885-02-03

went to Swecney'S hotel. we went into
the ladies' parler, and shesaid shewouldbc
able 10 give considerably money il any
good was done. She then said She would
call Monday, February Cd, at 4 o'clock.
To-day she sent another message to my
office and / went to the same telegraph
Office, and there / met the lady. She
showed me u paper which was to sign.
She then suggested We go to some place.
We walked down Chambers street toward
Broadway and got a short distance when
the woman stopped and fired two orthree
shots at me. ono Of the balls entered my
back" JEREMIAH 0'DoSovAN Rosa.
Soon after making this statement Rosa
rested easier, and said he was hopeful oi
pulling through all right.
puELAH swtLEs dRiMlH.
Captain Phclan, who is still guarded by
q policeman, when informed Of the par.
ticulars Of the shooting, smiled griuly,
but refused to say anything. The Office
Of the Chambers Street Hospital was
visited by q large number OF Rossa's
friends tonight, all OF them determined
looking chaps, and they gathered in
groups OF twos and threes aud discussed
in whispers the attempted assassination OF
the "Arch Dynamiter."
John Roche, whosedynamite operations
have been confnad to speeches in the
Fourth ward, eyed each visitor to the in
stitution and from time to time disappear.
ed TO talk with parties on the outside.
Algernon Sullivan, public administra;
tor, had read the news in the extras and
dropped in to see II the story was true
He was not permitted to see Rosa and
vanished shortly after.
W. J. Burkett, promint dynamiter,
shonted: "You can kill Rosa but you
can't kill the idea"
WHAT RossA SAYS.
To reporter Rosa said: SIT was q
prcmeditated affair, and this woman was
simply the engine by which the bloody
work was accomplished. She had no pri-
vvate revenge to crafty; no relative of hers
has been injured in Engli,h explosions.
Itisthe work Of the English Government,
whose policy always has been to assassi-
nate men they could not otherwise reach.
She is the agent OF the British Minister or
somebody else. This woman came to
me and said she was Irish, but that her
husband did not synpathi1e with the
cause of-Ireland. She was rabid in her
views on dynamite. She said the London
explosions were no good and wanted a
horrible sacrifice OF lie 10 strike terror 10
the hearts OF Ireland's enemies. |
told her / was not engaged in that
business and received no money for
such purposes, but only help for the Irish
cause. She reiterated that thousands of
lives should be sacrificed in London.
l had been to see my printer at 4
o'clock, when started to meet her. She
wanted mo TO sign receipt for money.
The receipt contained the word "dyna-
mite" and l declined. I put the paper in
my pocket and walled out with her. She
is nothing more or less than the agent OF
the British government employed to us
sassinate me. 49,
JoYcE's JAW.
Patrick Joyce, the trusted lieutenant Of
Rossa, came to his chief in tho hospital
shortly after the shooting. Rossa turned
over all his papers to Joyce and among
them were letters from Mrs. Dudley.
Joyce was loud in his denunciation Of the
attempt to slaughter the great
dynamiter and charged it was "Eng-
lish work" OF course it was
the outcome OF q conspiracy
on the part Of England TO rid the world OF
Rosa, whom she breads and fears. There
Is no question but what the agents ot
England in New York know all about the
plot, and tho woman wins the tool selected
TO carry 1t into execution. They selected
woman for-the deed because they had
not man among them brave enough to
attack him. He has received scores
OF threatening letters, but paid no
attention to them. lie is not
dead, and England will find it out to her
sorrow soon enough. Joyce went to Oak
street station 10 sec il he could identity
Mrs. Dudley Us the English woman who
had been befriended by Rosa about a
year ago. He was refused admission TO
her, but when he heard ller description
he concluded 1t did not tally with that OF
the other woman.
Rossa's admirers were greatly relieved
when they found his recovery was regard
ed as quite certain.
Walker ]. Elliott and Patrick Joyce
went to Brooklyn and broke tho tidings OF
the attempted assassination to his wife.
She received the tidings calmly and imme.
diately started for New York and reached
the hospital at 10 o'clock, when she was
admitted to her husbands bedside.
Mrs. DuDLEY's CAREER.
About 8 o'clock tonight Mrs. Dudley
asked about the condition Of Rossa and
seemed sorry when she heard he was still
alive. A number OF persons called to see
her, but she positively refused to DO in
teryiewedby any one. She discarded her
spectacIes, which, according to Joyce,
we're used as a disguise. Mrs. Dudley's
career in New York is thus given;
Thursday, January a2d, Mrs. Dudley
called at Mrs. Leggett's home for unem-
ployed women, No. GO Clinton Place. She
was met by Mrs. Brown, matron.
"Can you accommodate me?" asked
Mrs. Dudley.
SHaye You reisrenceBa" asked Mrs.
Brown.
"AIy reference is DR.. Thomas, whom
everybody knows was the reply, and
then she added, II am professional
nurse and widow and desire to stay here
until aeCure an engagement"
In telling the story other acquaintance
with Mrs. Dudley Mrs. Brown said: "She
impressed me SO favorably that / told her
she might tremaininth the house il she would
room with two other young ladies'. This
she consented to do. Her only luggage
was valIse, which she never unpacked,
because, as she one day said, she might
be called suddenly to attend to some pa
tlent.
WDid she referatany time while here to
her past domestic relations2"
"She told me she had been married and
had two children, but that her hus-
band and children Were dead. Her
father, she once remarked, had been
engaged in the British cavalry service.
She had acted as trained nurse in the
hospitals In London and Paris, and she