Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1885-02-06


and endeayorel 10 find his way back 10
his Office on Chambers street, which he
had just left. lie said. II am shot
trying to place his hand on his back uD-
Ger the shoulder blade. After a few
steps. somebody in the crowd suggested
he should 60 to Chambers street hospi-
tai. a couple Of men lent arms and
then Rosa did as suggested and direc-
ted his steps towards tie hospital. lie
walked all the way there, the distance
being nearly quarter OF n mile. lie
bled considerably on the way. Once i'm
the hospital lie was undrcssed and ex-
smined by DIR. Dennison. IL was found
the bullet had entered the back directly
below the left shoulder blade. The
doctor pronounced the wound not Of q
character and began TO probe
FOR the ball. A great crowd Of people
had followed The wounded man down
Chambers street and blockaded tie
roadway In front Of the hospital after
the door was locked behind O'Donovan
and his escort. Meanwhile the woman
had been taken 10 the station house
with another crowd following her. She
was placed before Sergeant Kass' desk.
She was good locking woman. dressed
neatly, in plain dark clothing, and wore
eyeglasses. She appeared like school
teacher with an intellectual face. Her
manner was entirely composed and she
answered some of the questions put to
her promptly and without any embar-
rassment. To others she simply shook
her head and said. Il shall only answer
questions 1 know YOU have right 10
ask .McAuley handed the pistol,
small calibre, to the seargent and said
he had seen the prisoner shoot man on
Chambers street. Volunteer witnesses
10 IL stated the fact of the shooting.
She was asked: "Do you know the man
yon shotY'' YES" replied the prison
er certainly with an English accent.
II shot O'Donovan Rossa." Further
questioning by the sergeant elected
the fact that the prisoners name was
Yseult Dudley, aged %, that she was
nurse and married, and that she lived at
60 Clinton place. She was asked the
question why she shot O'Donovan Ros-
"a, how long she had been in America,
and others, to which she made no an
swer Her entire demeanor was that Of
a rational person. and a cool .headed one
nj that. Rosa had been placed on a
cot in the same ward with Captain Pie
Ian who was stabbed by Richard Short
in O'Donovan's Office over three weeks
ago. Rosa was within eight beds of
Phelau. Examination of the wound
showed the bullet had penetrated the
back about half an inch above the left
shoulder blade. The ball ranged upward
and inward toward the spinal column,
but did not touch the vertebrate. The
bullet IL evidently lodged in the muscles
IT the back, and beyond n slight shock
Rossa has suffered but little. 1t was at
one time feared the bullet had penetra-
ted his lung, but as the wounded man
has expectOrated no blood this was pro-
nounced impossible. Had the spinal
column been Injured there would have
been signs OF paralysis, but none APP
pcared. The doctors probed unsuccess-
fully for the bullet. They concluded no
large blood vessel had been injured and
as O'DOnOvan is q fleshy, muscular
man, Of robust constitution, there was
no danger 10 be apprehended. Some
time after his admission To the hospital
Rossa was moved 10 another ward
Here he said he thought his condition
was serious enough tn warrant his max
ing an anie-mortcm statement and the
coroner was sent for. When the official
arrived O'DOnoyan made the following
statement:
R0ssa IN Chambers street hospital
made the following statement to coroner
Kennedy: Saturday, January 3Ist,
about p. IN. / received letter at my
Office in Chambers street. The mes
sage was i'm writing and delivered by a
messenger boy. The note stated lady
a lady wished 10 see me; that she was
interested in the Irish cause and desired
10 assist IL; she did not care TO 90 10 my
office and remain waiting there until /
came, she would only ask for ten min
utes time. The boy told me the lady
was ut the telegraph Office in the Stew
art building, on Broadway and Cham
bers streets. went with him and
met her. / told her it would be well TO
go to some hotel as the telegraph Office
was no place to talk in. We came out
and went to Sweeney's hotel. We went
into the ladies' parlor and she said she
would be able TO give me considerable
money if anything good was done. She
then SAID she would call Monday, Feb
ruary ID, at 1 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 q paper
which I was to sign. She then sugges-
ted we go some place. We walked down
Chambers toward Broadway and we
had got short distance toward Broad
way when the woman stepped back and
fired two or thsee shots at me. One of
the balls entered ms back"
To reporter Rosa said that it was
premeditated affair and this woman
was simply the engine by which the
dastardly work was'accomplished. She
had no private revenge to crafty. no
relative of hers had been injured in the
English explosion. 1t is the work OF
the English government whose policy.
has always been 70 assaSsinate men they
could not otherwise reach. She is the
agent of the British minister OF some
body else. This woman came to me and