The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1883-08-28 00:00:00

THE ABBABBINATION OF JAMES- CAREY.

Mails from the Cape stesmer l'rs.jan, which arrived
in Plymouth Sound on Tuesday, coutain • full account
of the murder of Jim.. away, and the a/flMt and
preliminary examination of his assassin. In a special
selitl .11 of the Cain Times, published immediately
before the sailing or the Tr .Put, the following portico.
ler., in addition to the facts known In England, were
published:—
T 0.,. was is thing to Indicate throughout the
voyage that Power was Carey, or that O'Donnell bore
him any ill.feeling. It is noteworthy that O'Donnell
had only taken hie pes.age for Table Bay, but a few
days bets.. arriving here he paid the Moreno.
, between the poems 500 unts ti enable him to g. on
to Natal. He la skid to have bad • good .apply of
m .ney with him.
.bert Buru ~the lure cabin steward of the Kinfauns
Cools, saps :—I wee r_adlog the Cape Alqius on last
Saturday morning in the fore cab= Mr. o'Donn. II
was sitting next to. ma. I raid to Mr. Leonard, who
had lent use U. pap,r, •• Di i you MI this iu the paper
about Carry, the informer?" lie said -"No, what is
?' I read the paragraph to him. O'Donnell exclaimed
—"ltlbsrlknonbe wee on board the ship I would
have e•ttug for him," an I he looked awfully exalted,
and wood pale iu the Inc . I saw how excited he
war, and I changed the aubject immediately. Mr.
O'Donuell wad an &Intentions mut. He told a
passenger, who told ins, that he could not drink
because he had suffered from sunstroke, and if
be drank be did not know what he was
doing. Immediately after I read the paper he came
acid had a bottle of stout. I then asked why Ls
inquired about Carey, and he said he wiahed to treat
him se a friend. T 1214 was about one o'clock, and he
was transferred to the Melrose about two o'clock. I
did hear that he was seen to put a revolver in his
pocket. He denied, before going on b Jard the Metro se,
that be had a small bottle of stout at dinner.
The statements of elutes'se onboard of the Melrose
are aa follows
. . . . .

Charlie Jooes, b Alamein, says :—I was in the fora
cabin on Sunday, July 29. h, during the voyage from
Capetowa to Natal, at ahem 3.45. I was playing with
• child when I heard a shot fired, and turning round I
saw O'Donuell, a second-ciao passenger, fire two shots
tit • passenger named Pewee. I went up and took •
revolver out of his side breast pocket. On Kr. Power's
wife coming up to O'Donnell be said ti her, Shake
hands, Mrs. Carey, I did not do it." I saw Power
fall at the after part of the cabin rafter the shots were
firscl, and subsequently be died on the cabin table. fie
did net speak alter he was shot.
James Parish says :—I woe leaving my berth in the
fore cabin to get tea ready for the officers, and saw a
passenger named 0.1.4 oniell fire at another passenger
named Power three shota from a revolver he had In his
hand. The first shot hit Power in tb , throat, and two
,re struck him in the back after he had turned
routed. I rushed towards Power, and found Mre.
Power lying at her husband'e side with her arms round
his neck. I sow the blood spurting from Power's
neck, and I placed my thumb on the wound and kept
it there till the doctor arrived. I remained with
Power till he expirtd.
Mr. Oreethough, second class
o passenger, aays:—l
was n deck about half-past three. anal heard • pistol
shot fired. I went to the skylight, and, looking down
SAW O'Donnell, a fellow passenger from London, fire
two shot., and maw Power, another fellow passenger.
fr. to L.e.lon, fall at the after part of the Ca',Wl
O'Donnell said at dinner time that hew oh In ,t leave
the .hip, but at the time I dld not understand what
he ow& it. 1 paw Power die in the cabin.
B adbury sa, a : —I beard three photo fired, and,
1,, g down the pkylight, saw Mr. Power stagger-
ing, and eventually fall at the after part of the cahio.
I was pre. nt wileu he died. Dr. Everitt identified
the body.
C ,i,t 41, Mee, of the Metros', say. :—I left Cape.
1.50 at five p.m. on July 213. h. Everything went
...II wail 3.43 p in. on lily 29h, when I was slim-
ed by th ones if" furrier " ferwaral. I immedi-
ately proceed.. I to the roma of the alarm, and went
.IIWII in the fore c ,b.rr and raw • pa...lager, wh 1,
I was 1,11, wma name I Power. lain on the deck in
the after part of the saloon, w run led. as I was in-
formed, II tilt... shot.. f a revolver fired at him by •
passenger named 0 D .uuell, who way c duely seated
on a sett es in the inAdie .4 the cabin with • woman
clinging round hi. neck. I was informed that
she was his wife. I gay., order. to the chief officer t
hove O'Donnell put in itons, which was at once don..
Dr. Everitt, who wes a passenger, promptly cam, t
the wounded mao stymie i him with the greateat
care up t . the tone th at he expire I. ate rut three-
oua-ter. of an hour from the time that he was shot.
Roo .rte were current previous ti our leaving Cape-
,owri that Power, a paesenger who came out in the
Kinfenne Ce.tie. was Join-s Ca.ey, the Irish informer.
c..gnisant of thew, report*, and of the unfortunate
affair I referred to baying taken place, I immediately
lustructed • moat •uinute • aerch of O'Doenell'eeffec'.s,
anti discovered, in his box in his cabin, a barge
rev dyer an I a box of cartridge., also a snapicious-
looking caw.. measuring nine inches by nine inches
an I seven inchts deep, which, on carefully opening,
I f mnd wat an elect ic machine. Thi. I deemed it
prudent to at once heave overboard. I took every
precaution for the sefurnard of the passengers till my
arrival in Algot. Boy. I found no luggage being.
leg to him in the luggage-room. His wife was also
piece i under sr let surveillance during the night. I
had the curios of Power removed to the cabin on
deck.