The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1883-12-27
KILLING OF CAREY.
Inside Facts Regarding the AS
sassination.
One of the Avengers Counsel Reveals
the Motive for the Crime.
From the Chicago Daily Newsl


The following extract from Il letter written
by one Of O'Donnclls counsel will be read
with interest. In connection with the trial
there are facts given which have not hereto
fore been published;
At last the truth may be told OF the killing
of James C.rey. IL was not 10 be told as
long as "A shadow of a chance remained TO
prevent the sacrifice OF "A PATRIOTS life for
that of the infamous wretch whom he de-
liberately swept oil the earth. For Patrick
O'Donnel did deliberately kill James Carey,
and he deliberately killed him because he was
James Carey. There was no struggle. Carey
made no attack on O'Donnell. O'DOnnell
never set up the plea of selfdefcnse. Had
he been permitted 10 tell the truth the fiimsy
subtcrfuge OF self-defensc would never have
detracted from an act he considered mcrito-
rious in the sight of God and man. He knew
the consequences of the act and would have
manfuly accepted them
Had Judge Denman permitted him to speak
before pronouncing sentence, as he was
bound by the law to do, O'DonneIl would then
have told the whole truth and vindicated him
self. His savage dcnunciatiOn Of the British
crown while the officers of tho court stiued
his words and dragged him from the dock TO
his cell, were not the furious whining of "a
coward, but the frenzy Of a bafed and honest
man, who having deliberately done what he
considered duty, and for which he was per-
fectly Indifferent TO death, had been com
PEELED, against his will, TO occupy an ignoble
attitude, and who burned TO escape from mis-
taken advisers.
L convey to the Daily Nous, on the highest
possible authority, the true story of the kill
ing OF Carey and the events which have made
up the train of its consequences.
ODonnell did not know Carey on the voy
age from En-land 10 the Cape. Ho was nota
member OF any socieUy. He was merely a
rolling stone. He had wandered rcstles sly
of tho American SfafpG I'm.
capable of peaceful residence. He had moved
about in Ireland, and spent some time in
England. With no definite aim he was going
TO Australia. Nervous and restless, almost
TO the verge of insanity, iudihercntto natural
ties, and reckless of his actions, he took with
him for companion an unfortunate who was
neither maid nor wife, a fact suH lent to
show that he had not gone on commission
OF vengeance whose fultHmcnt would fill the
world with his name and turn the fercest
glare of nOtoricty on his character and habits.
He had an unascertained consti-
tutional disease which at times de-
prived him OF some mental faculties
and all but paralyZed his will. The crcula-
ton of his hood was so uneven in his left
side that the left arm was frequently passed,
and lac had learned the use OF an electric
battery which, when found in his possession
after the tragedy was promptly thrown over
board as an I'M crnal machine. 50 unstTung
was his nervous stem that II was al sUlutcly
liquors, which he had not tasted for two
years. He was Il Ioancgal peasant. tall and
strupping, but feeble ncrVOuSly. rude and
unable TO rea'bor write. But he had learned
the truth that every peasant in ireland knows
the truth of the ruin OF his native land
and the degradation OF it's people by
England. He knew that the latest instru-
ment of that rain and degradation was the
monster james Carey. H. nd no sus
piciOn that the man with whom he had played
cards and drank an occas Onal glass of beer
was this monster. But the news was ahead
of tire ship, and a local paper at the cape
contained an excited article denOuncng the
government for IOlutng Australia with the
wretch O'Donnell heard this article read
and was shown a wood-cut OF Carey, whom
he ut once recognized. lie instantly resolved
TO kill Carey, out Of sheer instructive sense of
duty as an lrishman. ON the impulse of the
resolution he said to the man who had shown
him the wood-cut. IN kill him. as was
sworn on the trial. O'nonncll forgot tho
man and incident, and Cubbitt's appearance
was IA surps Use.
From the moment he formed his purpose he
never wavered in il. But he knew il would
not be easy TO Kill Carey, and he could not
afford 10 make the attempt and fail. Carey
was well armed, Vigilant, and suspicious,
O'DOnnrll determined to ship with him 10
Port EliZal eth, 20 with TO the farm Carey
had to q him lie was going TO take, and then,
without cOneca ment Of purpose or motive,
show that there was no spot on which an
IRISH informer would be safe. O'Donncll be-
came nervous and excited. In a reckless
hope of calmin hims elf he drank, the morn
ing Of the fatal day, II glass Of whisky. II
robbed him of scll-Control. He was not
intoxicated, but his discretion was gone.
Finding himself suddenly alone with Carey
and his tray lng companion he could
not resist the desire 10 kill him at
once. Carey. with liShtning quickneSs, per.
ceivCd his danger. The two lrishmen glow.
cred at each other. Carey Kissed: =" Do you
know mcy' O'Donncll Kissed back: II do.
You are Carey, the informer. TO hell with
you The bullet sped with the words, and
the deed was done. Carey cutched his own
revolver, but il was too late. O'Donnell dis
charged second shot and II third to make
sure OF his work. and Carey rolled 10 the
deck. No human eyes saw the encounter eX-
cept O'DOnnci's con p nion who threw her
arms around him and filled the ship with her
cries. lie had weakly told her that morning
his determination TO kill Carey, and that he
would be hanged for il. When Mrs. Carey
reached tn scene q Donncll said to her: "
had to do IL meaning simply that he felt II
10 be his duty as an lr shman 10 kill the
wretch who had sworn away innocent lives
a md honest IN