Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1883-08-03
F o R EI9N.
slayer Confessed.


LONDON. Aug. La correspondent al
cape Town says: O'DonneIl took pas
sage for Cape Town, but learning TIA,
carey was to follow as a passenger be
continued on the journey with him and
the Melrose, and shot him when that
steamer was close to Algona bay, in the
presence of the infsrmer's family.
ODonnell is calm; he is strongly guard
ed, as rumors are afioat that an attemp:
to rescue him will be made.
ACKNOWLEDGES IKE xuEpEI-
CAPE TowS. Aug. 1.-O'Donnell was
examined before Port Elizabeth mag
istrafe today on charge of murder of
James Carey, the informey. According
70 the evidence given, Carey and O'Don-
nell had been drinking in the second
cabin Just before the murder. When
the steamer was half way between Sable
bay and AiRer bay O'Donnell Suddenly
shot Carey in the neck with a revolver.
Carey staggered away. ODoune!I fol-
lowed and shot him twice in the back.
Carey died in twenty minutes. O'Don-
DELL says that he was in the California
diegings and had lost heavily in silver
mlsos. he was unaware of Carey's
identity until he saw it stated in a pa
per whs Power was. He then deter
mined to kill him. O'Donnsll was 40
companied by Mrs. Carey. She deposed
az the examination that after the muir
der she asked O'Donnel, did you shoot
my husband" and he replied, yes,
was sent to do it,
Unauthenticated rumors are current
that ODonnell is a relative of Joe Bra
dy. one of the Phoenix Park murderers
hanged recently, and that the vigilantes
are cognizant of the abode of Peter Ca
rey. A fund is being collected in LON
don to be used in defending ODonnell.
NEWS ANTICIPATED.
LONDON, Aug. Lit is worthy of note
what humor prevailed in nationalistic
circles in London Sunday night last,
when It became known that James Ca
rey had been shot. The item stating
that he had been killed was rendered to
the news agency in London at midnight
Sunday, but was refused, as no author
ity was given for the statement. 1t has
since been ascertained that a telegram
had been received at Paris, from Brin
dist, which was forwarded to London
Sunday night, reading: james Carey
been shot; thank God-' As the steamer
Mslrose. ON which Carey was shot, did
not reach Port Elizabeth until Monday,
either this statement was based ON a
mere surmiss, or the statement which
was openly made in certain nationals
tic circles to the effect that it has been
prearranged to kill Carey on the last
Sunday in July was true.
REJOICING OVER cAREY's DEATH.
LONDON, Aug. Ia mob entered some
of the houses sn Abbey street tonight,
and seized bedding, furniture and other
articles with which to make bonfires in
celebration of the death of JamesC Carey.
Efigies of Carey were burned, and
mock funerals held in various Irish
towns tonight.
Earthquake slaughter.
NAPLES, Aug. 1.-The burial of the
victims of the earthquake continued
throughout the day. Two hundred and
eighty bodies were buried at Casamic-
ciola, 80 at Lucco and % at Forio. The
latest estimates place the number of
deaths at between 1900 and 5000. As it
would be impossible to recover and
bury all the bodies, the general minister
of public works has ordered that in
view of the horrible exhalations from
the decomposing remains, uncovered
corpses be left where they lie and liquid
lime be poured over them. The ruins
made by the earthquake at Casamic-
ciola will thus be converted into one
vast cemetery.