Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1885-02-03
o'DOnOvan Rosa, the Dynamiters'
Leader, Shot by a Woman on
the Streets of New York.
Five Shots Were Fired, One Of Which
Took Effect in ROssa's BackH His
Ante Nortom Statement,
He is Confident That the Woman was
Hired by the British Govern.
mont TO AssAssinate Him.
The Woman is Foreigner She Refuses
to be Interviewed but Seems
Sorry That Rossa Still Lives,
me nuLIETIR.

IHE BuLlErIH.
NEW YORK, $50 p, m, Feb. a.
o'DonovRn Rosa has just been shot
and killed in his office in Center street,
by woman.
THU PARTICULARS
The shooting OF O'DOnovau Rosa
took place twelve minutes past s
o'clock He Is still alive He waa in
front VI the Stewart building ON
Chambers street when ne was Ap-
preached by handsome young lady
dressed plainly, She wore sp.ctacles
aud had the appearance OF an intel
leotual schOol-teHcheT
| SHE DREW A FIVE HARRELEn AF'N Oh
WEIR
| from her dress pocket, and leveling II
AZ ROsrh fred one shot. Rosa threw
| hia hand above his head and cried,
ppm Bhotm He then fell heavily 10
the RldewAlk. The woman fired the
remaining bullets In her pistol at the
PROSTATE man and calmly and unoon-
cernedly walked of with
THE SMOKING REVOLVER
I'm her hand. She was followed by
large crowd, while "a still larger mob
surrounded the wounded dynRmlter.
City Marshal James MoAuley, In tho
absence OF "A policeman, saw the revolt
yer In the wOman's hand and arrested
her. She was conducted TO the Twen-
ty.Blxth precinct stRtion-h0use In the
city hall. Her cOolneas and demeanOr
was remarkable when RrTaigned at tho
aergeAntis desk The woman gives her
name a. Yseulet Dudley.
o'DONuvAN RossA " STORY.
Roesa In the Chambers street hos
pitHl made the following statement 10
Coroner Kennedy:
Saturday, January 81, about 3 p m,
I received II letter at my ONCE ON
Chambers street The message was in
writing and was delivered by
mt ssenger-boy. The note stated
that lady wished TO see me; that she
was interested In the Irish cause and
desired TO Hssist It. She didn't care 10
20 To my office aud remain waiting
there until / came. She only would
ask for ten minutes time The boy
told me that the lady was Rt the
telegraph office Ia tue Stew
art building on broadway, aud
Chambers streets. | went with him
and i met her. / told her that u
would be we'll to 20 70 some hotel, aA
the telegraph office was no place to
talk In.
We came out and went TO Bweeneys
hotel. We went into the ladies' par.
: loT and she said that she would be able
10 give me considerable money
II anything good was done. She then
said that she would call Monday,
February "a, at 4 o'clock. To-day ehe
sent another message to my office and
went 10 the same telegraph office and
there met the lady. She show cd me
a paper which | was TO sign, She
then suggested that we go
10 some place. We then walked
down Chambers street toward Broad
way and we got short distance
toward Broadway when the woman
stepped back and fired two or three
shots at me. One OF the balls entered
my back.
JEREMIAH O'DoNovAW Rosa. y
THE SCENE or THR TRAGEDY
NEW YORK, Feb . AT 6.l2 this AZ
ternOon O'Dononan Rosa, the Irish
dynamiter" socalled, was shot by q
woman on Chambers street near
Broadway. At that hour the
streets " ere full ~ people homeward
bound, making their way toward the
Brooklyn bridge and up Town.
The excitement over the shooting,
although the man was recognized by
very few iB inttnse. The frs shot fired
took effect la RUssa's body aud he fell
20 LhefidewRlk. The women continued
. shooting until she emptied her FIVE
chambered revolver, Only the hrsl
shot took effect.
THE ARREST.
City Marshnl James MoAuley wal
D present, and brenkiDg through TIA.
crown that had collected, he seized
The woman, who stlll had the
NaN l., Ia NaIa
her that she wta unde
i no remonstranee, but allowed
herself 10 be taken through the mas
OF citizens and to the city hall station
house George w. BATloV, meIchan
at 1916 Reade street aud Peter Y Ever
ett. formerly "A reporter, who witnessed
n the shooting, accompanied the capto
and captive 10 theBtat ion, saying thu
they would be u illnesses.
HOSEA GOES no THE HOSPITAL,
" When the woman had eelssed firlD
O'DOnnvan robe 10 his feet aud tried
find his way back 10 hls Office i
Chambers street which b
had just leit. He sale
place his hands on his back, under hi
rhoulder-blAde. After u few step
sonsbody In the crowd suggested this
he should go " the Chambers sLres
hospital a couple Of men lent thel
arms and O'Donnvan did as snggeetc
aud directed hl + steps toward the no
pltAl He walked All the way Their
. distance Of nearly quarter OF
mile. He bled considerably ON th
way. When once Ia the hospital b
WAS Ondrsssed and examined by ID
Dennlaon. II WAS found that the bu
lot had fntei ed his back directly b.
low the LEFT shonder-blad
The doctor pronounced III
,.n,.d nof 6anOayona an