MRS DUDLEY AND O'DONOVAN ROSSA.

Dunstan Times, Issue 1260, 23 April 1886, Page 3

MRS DUDLEY AND O'DONOVAN ROSSA.

The trial of Mrs Dudley for at tempting to kill llossa was as, good as a play, and the lady seems to have enjoyed a latitude which women get more than anywhere else in A meric>. The Courtsroom was crowded to its utmost capacity. Eossa and his lieutenant, Pat Jo ce, were both in attendance. The greater part of the day was occupied in obtaining a jury, O’Donovan Eossa was the first witness cdled by the prosecution. Being asked his name ho said “Jeremiah O’Donovan Rossa” “That’s not his name,” called out Mrs Dudley. “ Where did he get the Rossa from ? ” The next question was: “ What is your business!” “Dynamiter,” shouted out Mrs Dudley, and then Eossa answered “Journalist.” Cons tinning, Eossa said that Mrs Dudley had agreed to denote OOOdol in in* stalments. She said she didn’t like dynamite where it would take inurw cent lives. Eossa testified that he did not like that business ei.het. As the witness said this Mrs Dudley arose to her feet and shouted out “ Liar.” The prisoner was forced to her s at. Witness continue I that he hj ul (old the prisoner that his only purpose was to liberate Ireland. “(Jetting money from servant girls and swindling them,” interjected Mrs Dudley. Witness identified notes sent to him by the prisoner, and told Low, in response■ to one of them, ho met her in the Hi-wart building.

Mrs’D'iidley offered him a receipt to sign ia the telegraph office of that building, hub ho refused to sign it, he said. “ You are a liar," yelled Mis Dudley ; “ you never read the receipt. You didn’t dare go so far,” and then turning to the. jury, she shouted; “ You had better get away from that man. You can’t tell what will happen. He’s only preparing himself.” In another moment Mrs Dudley cried imploringly “ Won’t somebody please knock that man out of the window.” Rossa wont on to say that ho sug» gested that they should go to a more appropriate place to talk matters over, and they left the telegraph office. She shot him. He fell. “ You got scared and dropped,” shouted the woman. Rossa did not remember how many shots Were fired. “ No ; you were (too frightened, Jeremiah,” remarked the prisoner; and then she added 1 “ ‘ For God's sake don’t kill me.’ You forget to tell that.” When Rossa showed where the bullet struck him, Mrs Dudley interpolated, “ I want that bullet back ; it was only lent.” Rossa then told of his comings and goings between the United States and Great Britain, ami was continually interrupted by the prisoner with caustic remarks. When he stated that he was once sent to the United States by the British Minister, Mrs Dudley said: “ [ wish ho had kept you' in England. . There would not have been a particle left of you ’’; and so it continued throughout his. testimony, the prisoner breaking in at nearly every answer and taunting Rossa with cowardice. As Rossa stepped down from the witness stand ho passed the prisoner on his way to the door. As he did so Mrs Dudley shouted in his t ice, “ Down with the dynamiters. God save the Queen. Don’t kill trie, for God’s sake.” Mrs Dud’ey is now confined in the State Asjlnmat Middletown.