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CAREY's MURDERER
Scenes at O'Donnell's Preliminary Exami-
nati0n-Appearance of the Prisoner.

Scenes at O'DOnuelps Preliminary Examf-
nation-Appearance of the Prisoner.
Correspondence of the indianapolis Journal
LONDON, Sept. 29.-One person in great
trouble here is Mr. Patrick ODonnell. who
has just been committed for the murder of
Carey, though to observe the actions of the
accused no one would suppose that the woes
of his position weighed very heavily on his
mind. | saw him at Bow street on Tuesday.
He impressed me as man with very little
sense, and that little very poorly balanced
The scene of the examination was one of
sickening impressiveness Mr.. Flowers, the
magistrate, fine old English gentleman,
looked the picture OF awful majesty. Mr.
Poland, the great criminal lawyer, acted
like one who was conscious OF having a
great case in hand, and his short, measured
and incisive opening speech indicated that
he felt sure of winning it, He speaks slow
Jy and in examining witnesses keeps very
cool and never loses himself Both in
appearance and methods he is the
very opposite to the average criminal
lawyer one sees in American courts. His
face has look of benignity and his mouth
is of shape to indicate that it would come
more natural to him to speak smooth words
than rough. He has no mustache, and his
beard and hair are gray. Dressed in broad
cloth, with an ample black tie, and far dis
play of shrt-bosom beneath, he would read
lily be taken in our country for a highly
sedate Presbyterian clergyman. Mr.. A. NJ.
Sullivan, who defends the prisoner, is some
what older than the leading attorney for the
prosecution, and has a less pleasant manner.
He looked and acted on Tuesday as though
all the mseries of bis distressed country had
settled for time upon his shoulders, and as
though he were there to guard, not p
simply ODonnells interests but the
cause of Ireland in general AT the
same time, his rather petulant tone of voice,
and the threat he made of withdrawing from
the defense in certain contingencies, showed
that he regarded himself as leading forlorn
hope. But he is better speaker than Po-
land, and, doubtless, before a sympathetic
jury could put in effective work. All en-
gagged seemed to feel the gravity of the situa-
ton, excepting one, and that was the pris-
oner His response to the most telling points
in the testimony was simply a smile He
did not act however, like one who glOried in
having done heroic deed and was indiffer-
ent to the consequences, but rather like one
VINO XpecJeu III some way 10 escape the con-
sequences of his conduct. But how ridicu-
lous is such a hope on his part. If the evil
dence proves him to have shot Carey, there
is not the ghost of a chance for him before
the courts of England.
In the eyes of British justice ODonnell is
something more than an ordinary murderer,
from the fact that the man he killed was
ward of the English government. This fact
makes his conviction and punishment all the
more certain No money subscribed for his
defense can save him or help him. A hun
dred of the ablest lawyers the United States
could send over could do his case no good.
The American dispatches this morning state
that the conductors of his defense find hope
to make capital for him by investing his
cause with an international interest. They
may in this way make capital for him over
there, but the effect here will be just the OPP
posite. Regarding America as the hot-bed
of Irish sedition, they will tolerate no inter-
ference from that country in a case OF this
kind. STILL few here regret the death of
Carey, and many rather admire the man who
dispatched him. But the mass of the En-
glish people feel, in common with the author
tiles, that the law must take its course, and
that if ODonnell be guilty he cannot be too
speedily brought to the gallows il. T.