The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1883-07-27
N AND DEMOCRAT, BI OOMsBURG COLUMBIA COUNTY, PA.
The In1ormcr Uarev.
DIFFICULTY TuE BRITISH GOVERNMENT
T. HAD IN GETTING RID or HIM.


Dublin Despatch to London Daily News,
The story of James Carey's banish-
ment will perhaps never become fully
known but such particulars as have
leaked out are sufficiently interesting
for publication. 1t is well known that
the government found great difficulty
in getting rid of Carey. Some doubts
are entertained as to whether all Carey's
letters to Judge Morris about the Trim
ity ward election petition and the letter
to the Town Clerk requesting that the
notice of the meetings of the corpora
ton should be sent to him, though un
doubtedly genuine in the sense of hav-
ing been written by Carey, were not
written by him at the instigation of
others, in order to throw the Fenian
party off the scent and render their eff
forts to trace his movements on leaving
the prison futile. But there can be no
doubt that he gave trouble to the gov
ernment in respect of his persistent de-
mand for q written pardon and his
equally persistent claim to money re-
ward for his services as an informer
Carey also claimed that he should have
protection whether he left the country
or remained in it. None of these de
mands were complied with. 1t was
decided not to give him written par
don and he is thus technically still in
the position of man who may be tried
tor his life. Lord Spencer was equally
firm in refusing to recognize Carey's
claim to any portion of the reward, and
the result is that the arch informer has
gone to foreign shore with some
means of his own, but without these
being in any way supplemented by pub.
lie money Carey was not entitled to
any reward. He only came forward
when he could not save his neck with
out doing so. He saved his neck and
that was all he was entitled to. Some
weeks ago the preliminary steps were
taken of separating the brothers Carey
in Jail and, by stopping all visits TO
them, conveying the impression that
they had left the country or, at all
events, that they had been removed
from Kilmainham Jail. On Monday
night last an officer high in Dublin de-
tective service presented himself at the
prison after lock- up hours, and when all
the officers except the governor and
deputy governor had disappeared, and
produced an order for the delivery of
James Carey. The order was complied
with, and Carey and the detective Off
Ger took their places in cab which
was in waiting for them outside, and
drove into the city. This done, Carey
was obviously in the power of the off.
Ger, and was compelled to submit to
his terms, which were that he should
leave the country and go abroad, his
passage being paid to his destination,
but no further assistance whatever
being given to him. Carey demurred
strongly to these terms, but he was
given the alternative of accepting them
or being left unprotected in the streets
of Dublin. Thus driven to bay he chose
the first mentioned alternative. He
was conveyed the same night to Kings
town in the cab in which he had been
brought from Kilmainham. He slept
on the steamer, and, accompanied by
a detective, crossed to Holyhead, and
thence to London, whittier his family
had been already removed in detach-
ments, along with other informers
and their families, notably Robert Far
rail-, to whose disclosures in the first
instance the discovery of the perpetrators
of the Park murders may be said to
be due. So well managed were the
entire arrangements that the detective
who accompanied Carey on board the
steamer which was to convey him to
his destination and who handed him
his passage warrant enclosed in seal
ed envelope was not aware of Carey's
destination. That destination, it can
only be said, is in some part of the
eastern hemisphere. No more definite
conjecture can be formed, as the stea-
mer is one Of a line which has numer-
Gus ports of call, any one of which may
be the port of debarkation for James
Carey.