Show MRS DUDLEYS DEFENSE She Protests She Is Sane But the Turf Find Her Insane The Reason Why She Wanted to Send Rossa to Glory Acquitted by the Jury and to be Sent Back to England Mrs Dudley iu Court ToDay NEW YORK June 3OThe court room where Mrs Lucille Yseulto Dudley is being tried for assault on ODonovan liossa is again crowded to excess today when the taking of testimony continued Dr Charles E Dennison who dressed liossas wounds testified as to their location and character This ends the case forthe prosecution Counsel for = Mrs Dudley opened for the defense He claimed that Mrs Dudley had assaulted Rossa not out of personal spite or to avenge a personal insult but because he was an enemy of her country Counsel discussed the subject sub-ject of Irish patriotism In outlining the line of testimony for the defense counsel coun-sel spoke of what he termed Mrs Dudleys physical infirmity He said he would show that for several years she has been subject to epileptic fits He would show that her mind has been affected by these fits and she was not in fact responsible for her own conduct Counsel submitted a number of letters from English physicians in various institutions in which his client had been confined for treatment and setting forth the character of her disease The deponents declared that Mrs Dudley was not in her right mind lizabeth S Tonlius private teacher who resides at the same place as Mrs Dudley testified that for several days previous to the shooting of Kossa the prisoner had acted in a strange manner She had bundles of Rossas newspapers containing reports of recent re-cent explosions in London and in speaking to witness of Rossa Mrs Dudley had alluded to the advisability of KIDDING THE EARTH OF SUCH A MAN Dr MacDonald superintendent of the asylum for the insane on Wards Island testified tes-tified he was convinced that Mrs Dudley was suffering from a chronic mania Mrs Dudley hall told witness there were three men she had determined to punish with death and that liossa was the first on her listDr Dr Harding gave similar testimony Mrs Dudley here interrupted the proceedings proceed-ings of the Court by addressing Judge Gild ersleeve She said Whether I was irrational ir-rational or not when I shot Rossa I am perfectly per-fectly sane now and wish to testify in my case The case goes to the jury now without with-out havin heard me They will form an entirely erroneous impression of my motives mil will not know why I shot Rossa The doctors said 1 had said that I had a mission when they should have said that I had an inclination The Judge said she had better bet-ter confer with her counsel and when the time came the Court would hear her Mrs Dudleys counsel said they found themselves Ill a somewhat peculiar position they lad been trying to prove that their client was insane she on her part INSISTED TUAT SHE WAS NOT INSANE At the time of the attack and insisted on her right to go on the stand and testify in her own behalf Counsel could not see how they could do otherwise than call her as a witness It was finally agreed that she should be called to the stand after recess After recess Mrs Dudleys lawyers tried I their best to got her to forego her determination deter-mination of becoming a witness She persisted I sisted in her intention however and at the first word from the prosecuting counsel she walked quickly to the witness chair and was sworn The she said Gentlemen of he Jury I may or I may not be insane but if it is accurate that my action was for the possession of the almighty dollar then I have no doubt you will readily decide that I im not insane I wish you decide my case by acquitting either on the ground that MY ACTION WAS JUSTIFIABLE Or to convict me I was in doubt as to whether Jeremiah ODonovnn Patrick Ford or Mesegaroff were more responsible I read 3Donovans and Fords papers and read ibout Mesegaroff and then I went to see ODonovan We had a talk about the wholesale sale murder of innocent women and children Ho said that the blowing up of buildings was perfectly right What said he are the lives of a few women and children compared com-pared with the holy cause of Ireland He said in reference to the recent explosion hat AVe did it and ho also said I INTEND TO BLOW UP TilE HOUSE OF TAELIA MENT When it next convenes I believe now however that ho was deliberately lying The jury acquitted Mrs Dudley on the round of insanity The jury was only in consultation about five minutes when they tendered their verdict A motion was made to send Mrs Dudley to the State lunatic asylum which her counsel opposed The atter asked that their client be permitted to return to her native country and be placed in an institution there The Court will listen to argument on this motion on hursclay next |