The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-09-27

Her Husbands Assassination.
New York Herald Account
Mrs. Carey remained in seclusion passing her
days in attending TO her children and taking her
meals with the stewardess, who specially at
tended her, and only varying the dull monotony
of her life from day to day by coming on deck at
nightfall for breath of fresh air. Having sue
ceeded in finding the location of Mrs. Carey g
cabin, went to see her, first sending in my card
to prepare her for my visit On the sofa, as
entered, + saw the figure of "a rather tall, quiet,
eomely woman in black, absently dandling a
baby on her knee, while with her one disengaged
hand she tried to tidy the much -rumpled frocks
of two other tiny children-Maggie and Mollie.
Mrs. Carey seems under forty. She must, few
years ago, have been decidedly pretty. She has
regular, clear-cut features, the lines of which
have been blurred, and have lost their freshness
from sorrow and perhaps from drink. Her hands
are coarse, but her speech is soft and agreeable.
''You will have heard, Mrs. Carey" said |, pres
emily, "that | am anxions to hear something of
your sad d., story from y1ur own lips if 1t is not
"Sure, SIR" said Mrs. Carey, "you may well
call it a sad story; but l have nothing to tell
except what has been in the papers,"
81 went away from England so suddenly"
said I, patting the baby's cheek, "that l hardly
read the details of the last part of your unhappy
case. DO you think that O'DOnnel went out to
the Cape on purpose to shoot your husbandF'
"Indeed, never set eyes on him till the other
day"
"O'Donnell and a person called his wife were
seated in the second-class saloon, [ believe, at
the time of the murder. Was your husband
seated or standingP
"O'Donnell and the woma were seated on a
6ettee when | saw them," said the widow, "and
himself (she has q very touching way of speak
ing of her dead husband himselD was stand
ing, think, but perhaps he was sitting. Indeed,
don't rightly know, for | had gone into the
cabin with the child. The passengers used very
often to meet down stairs and rest on the
settee."
"Had O'Donnell and your husband been drink
ing together2"
"They had"
"How long before the murders"
"Just before it,"
II have heard, said |, that Dublin detectives
have got proof that ODonnell went out on pur-
pose to kill your husband. Have you heard
nothing yourself that proves thisG"
mo, nothing; it's not much those detectives
won't fiud OUT" she replied.
"Was O'Donnell very friendly to you ala"
"He was we met him first at Dartmouth, and
He professed to be fond of children, and his wife
seemed to take great fancy to one of my girls,
and the child used to call her 'aunty.'"
"That makes the murder appear doubly cold
blOoded act.'
"It does,' bitterly replied Mrs. Carey.
"Can you recall exactly what happened on the
day of the murderq O'Donnell and your hus-
band had been drinking together, you say
Eyes, he himself had called inc to come up out
not felt inclined, and went in tue cabin. Pres
emily heard O'DOnnell ask where Carey him
self was. He was told somewhere deck.
Soon after heard him say, You will come down
and nave bottle of beer, won't your Then I
heard himself come down and then shot, but
took n o notice of it, thinking it was only cork
popping Then there was a second shot, and
himself came toward me, crying, 'Oh, Maggie,
O'Donnell's shot me 1 ran out and we fell down
together, and that was the end oft"
you afterwarda'
"He did. He held out his hand to me and said,
Shake hands, Mrs. Power. Your names Carey,
icpbf ha hop6 nn m 7 Ua M inf
to do it,"
'@rnat seems prtAf that the crime was deliber-
ate does 1t notY'
"Oh there's proof enough" replied Mrs. Carey,
forgetting the remark she had made at the be-
ginning of our conversation.
I am inclined to believe that her memory is
impaired. Here ( thought well to interrupt the
conversation, having first obtained Mrs. Carey
permission to visit her again the next day.
got about, the way leading to her cabin was
barred, and l had therefore, to continue
the talk in a new way before we reached
Plymouth. Mrs. Carey made the replies to
fresh questions put to her, which need not re-
peat. The only new facts likely to be disclosed
at the coming trial will be with reference to
O'Donnelrs career, and will probably tell against
hun. In her opinion O'Donnell is an Invincibe.
Possibly he may be made to say something about
thrown on the Phoenix Park tragedy.
Mrs. ODonnell, or the person so called, limited
to her on the KinfauDs Castle that O'Donnell was
dangerous but asked her not to tell her husband.
Mrs. Carey fancied, however. that the warning
applied to herself. Mrs. O'Donnel was seen In
tears several times during the voyage out, and
was also heard imploring O'Donnell not TO do it.
O'DonneLl was heard to say to some person whom
he spoke of as she possibly possibly not,"
meaning Carey. All these statements must be
received with the greatest caution, for Mrs.
Carey often contradicts herself.
Mrs. Carey is of opinion that she and Carey
were we'll enough guarded by police in London
as regards numbers. There were two detectives
and four policemen. But she thinks that they
acted incautiously in patrollng. before their
door, thus calling the attention of the Invinci
bles TO their movements, which were carefully
watched from the time they left Dublin.
To illustrate the strange confusion of Mrs
Carey's mind at present 1t may be mentioned
that though two persons at least know positively
the so.called Mrs. O'Donnen TO be woman she
obstinately declares her opinion that the sup
posed female was man. She describes her as q
person of muscular appearance, with hair on
the upper lip, a deep voice and masculine gait
Yet, talking to me, she spoke of her as a woman
Mrs. Carey hopes to return to Port Elizabeth
where she was treated with great kindness.