Show MRS DUDLEY ON AMERICAN LAWS Whatever else the now notorious Mrs Dudley may have to say regarding American Amer-ican laws she must admit that to her at least they were lenient The man whom she attacked is all she says he is and perhaps per-haps more But still she made a murderous mur-derous attack upon him and the jury acquitted her The manner in which she showed her contempt for Rossa and the protection that such as he receives in America is entertaining enter-taining and shows that she was not insane when she expressed her vievs She says she wished to kill Rossa and of this no one not even Rossa himself will doubt She says she did not kill him because he begged so piteously for his life and that he looked at her after he fell as would a wounded dog and that she had not the heart to kill him From him it was so she says that she learned the lesson that to use any means against England or the English were rightful and from this lesson she drew the inference in-ference that it was rightful to use any means against those who were seeking to injure England and the English Eng-lish It was a logical conclusion and could lead to no other than that lex tal ionis is justifiable The manner in which she sums up Rossa and his work is most charming and must challenge the admiration admir-ation of all She was asked if she wished to ascertain his principles and she replied in a most sane and truthful manner No sir j he has none She was then asked if It was his ideas she wished to know to which she answered He has very few Then she was asked if she wished to learn of his character to which she replied that he did not possess any Then followed this rich rare and racy conversation from which it is plain that Lucille Yseult Dudley does not admire American laws i You know that the laws of England as well as of America guarantee an accused person a trial by jury Yes sir and in England a trial by jury is no sham It is I yourselves here not English laws that need a change Why didnt yon try and save me the trouble Well we have endeavored to get a complaint com-plaint within the law against him Pardon me but I dont think there haa been any great effort His paper is in itself evidence sufficient against him Why sir it is a standing incentive to murder It seems to me some one else could have reached him as easily as I did Rossa concedes that himself He has said in i his paper why does not some one that is not paid with English gold as that Dudley I woman was put out of the way Pierrepout Edwards and Minister West If it was easy and justifiable as he suggested to kill these J gentlemen why was it not just as easy and < justifiable to kill him I found itvery easy though I only hate his calling me a British shpoy n with imitation of the Irish brogue My learned associate suggests that I ask you why you shot Roam in the back Would you have had me walk up to him and say Stand still Jeremiah me boy till rm after shooting you I know hewouldnt stop to let me shoo him so I did the Jest I could under somewhat trying circumstances circum-stances That woman is an honor to her sex and rivals in wit as well as in beauty Yittoria i r i C 7 > i 1Ji Il I Y Colonna An immense statue of pure bronze of her should be cast and placed alongside of Bartoldis Liberty Enlightening Enlight-ening the World as a companion piece |