The O'Donovan Rossa Tragedy

Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 82, 10 March 1885, Page 2

The O'Donovan Rossa Tragedy

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(Per Mail Steamer.) Rossa was shot 1 near the roadway, on February 2nd. The streets were full; of people homeward bound, and the excitement pyer the ; shooting waß intense, although the wounded man .was recognised by very few. T fle &V ai took effect m O'Ddnovab's body and he fell on to the side walk.-'. The woman continue; ed to shoot until she had emptied a ftvech'ambered revolver, lipssa waslaken to the. hospital and placed oa a cot, jn the same ward as Captain Phelau, lately stabbed by Short m Rossa's. office. Phe. Lan smiled grimly when ,tie fouud out who the patient was, but'maintinned silence. Examination of the wound show;ed that , a ; baH .had penetrated the back, but the doctors, said there was no immediate danger. His assailant iis an Englishwoman named Seult Dndloy, aged'2s^ a nurse, and married. She is a" goodlooking woinan^dreased neatly, and wore an eye-glass. Her manner was entii'ejy composed. She answered some of , the questions put to her promptly and withr out embarrassment; ; to .otjiers she simply shdok-hfer head arid smiled \feith a look which said "I shall only answer questions! kuow you: hare a right tqTabk." Eurther inquiry developed the fact that the woman had been almost crazed witn i excitement- over ; siuca the explosions at ■Londou Tower and Parliament Brtildiiigs, arid this meutal condition 1 was in'terisified at the time she wounded Rossa. The latter, however, •will admit of no other explanation than that she is an agent of the British Government employed to assassinate hiip.v Joyce, his trusted f rietid, shares with ,hitn this opinion, and he,- m. common with all dynamiters all over the United States'threaten 'terrible reprisals against Britain. With tho exception of Joyce and h|s kind the sentiment' of nearly everybody seems to be one of regret that Mrs Dudley's shot had not' 'proved ftttal. Mr Edwards, the English Consul, m New- York, regretted that O'Douovan Rossa had been shot by an Englishwoman. He thought she must have been demented. The people m London' bei came jubilant over the news of' the. shooting, and thousands of toasts were drunk to the health of Mrs Dudley as a heroine. The Daily Telegraph 'said, " It would be idle to pretend that there ! watfthe smallest sympathy for Rossa m England," and describes his whole career as one of cowardly atrocity. The Daily News deplores the event only on grpand that it wjiJUead to reprisals m Capada. There was j^reat excitement followed by intense disappointment, tfcat the wfound was hot even dangerous. During his first day iv Hospital, received telegrams frota- aU'paWs of the country, and 100 letters came through the mails. Many were hostile iii toue. One from j New Jersey ran :.— " Incarnate fiend— This hour do I consecrate myself to your destruction, if the bullet sent by the immortal Mrs Dudley does not finish , you. — An Outraged" Englishman. "^— A' man m Missouri wired— li'anson's Cross (M.S.), Fet>ruary 3, lßßs.— Rossa, dyua- r miter, New York. — Hope' to God you may die. No such luck. — Z.Z.B.