Milford chronicle., 1883-08-10
THE SHOOTING OF CAREY.
How It Was Accomplished ON the steamer
Near Cape Town.

A dispatch from Cape Town says that
O'Donnell, the murderer of James
Carey, the informer, only took passage
for Cape Town, but on learning that
Carey was a fellow passenger he con-
tinued on the journey with him on the
steamer Melrose, and shot him when
that steamer was close to Algoa Bay in
the presence of the informers family.
A fund to be used in defending him is
being collected. Carey died without
speaking after he was shot O'Donnell
is an Irish-Ameriean. He denies that he
knew who Carey was previous to his ar
rival at Cape Town.
O'DOnnell was accompanied from
England by a woman he called his wife,
who appeared to be on intimate terms
with the Carey family during the voyage.
O'DOnnell was examined before a Port
Elizabeth magistrate on the charge of
numbering Carey. According to the evi-
dence given Carey and O'Donnell had
been drinking in the second class cabin
before the murder. When the steamer
was half way between Table Bay and
Algoa Bay O'Donne1 suddenly shot
Carey in the neck with a revolver.
Carey staggered away, and O'Donnell
followed and shot him twice in the back.
Carey died in twenty minutes. O'Don-
nell says he was Californian digger
He had lost largely in a silver mine
He was unaware of Carey's identity un-
til he saw it stated in a Cape paper who
he was. He then determined to kill him.
He is six feet high, has gray eyes and
dark hair; is about forty-fve years of
age, and is paralyzed in one hand.
Mrs. Carey deposed at the examina-
tion that after the murder she asked
O'Donnell:-"Did you shoot my hus-
band?' and he replied:-"Yes, I was
sent to do it.
Carey's identity was suspected by the
steward and another of the crew of the
steamer Kinfauns Castle, who noted his
keness-although shaven-to portraits
of the informer and the number and /
name of his children.
Carey's demeanor on board the steamer
was imprudent. He lived very freely. |
He provoked a row at a Cape Town |
hotel by his abuse of the English.
A mob of men entered some of the
houses on Abbey street, Dublin, and
jeized bedding, furniture, and other ar
icles, with which to make bonfres in
celebration of the death of James Carey.
1figies of Carey were burned and
mock funerals were held in various Irish
owns. Eight enormous bonfres wers
,uilt around James Carey late residence.
There were also fires in streets through
ut the city. Bands marched through
he streets playing national airs, followed
y crowds of people who cheered as
hey marched. A slight collision oc-
urred between the crowd and the
olice. The officials fear that the Feni-
Ms will be much emboldened by these
The London Times pronounces the ]
cath of Carey a public misfortune. 1t
lys he had been an instrument of JUS
ce. The murder is calculated to en-
1urage daring and lawless spirits to t
0mmit acts of violence. The Joy caused I
Ireland by the informer's death is proof
nat many elements of danger still exist
lere.
The Dublin Nei0s says that while his a
cath cannot but give joy TO the real G
lends of Ireland, it is also a menace; q
ut the unhappy event gives proof, /;
that were needed, that the elements
danger continue to exist. {