Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1883-08-09
THE PLOT TO KILL CAREY,

THE PLOI IO hlLL CAREls
A London letter says there are many
theories afoat as to how the discovery was
made of Carey's movements and his deslg-
mated place of exile. The adroitness of the
Invincibles in this regard is a far greater
puzzle and panic to the authorities than the
actual killing of their tool. They can have
no assured faith in the secrecy of official az
rangements, and no security against the
vengeance in London or Dublin that found
its way to successful exercise in African
waters. The opinion most accepted is that
Carey was tracked by the vigilant watch
kept on the movements of his wife, though
there are many who believe that the men,
bers of the police force or some warden OF
Kilmainham prison 'sold the pass" on one
who had, even with these instruments OF
power, made himself unpopular. The most
generally believed explanation is that Mrs.
Carey, who had assumed the name Of Pow
er, took passage for herself and seven chill
dren for Cape Town from London on board
the kILfum0s Custle of the Donald Currie's
Cape Colony and Natal Royal Mail Service,
to sail from London on the Sd of July-Carey
to join his family on board at Dartmouth on
the 9Th. This programme was carried out.
But there were other plotters at work: The
inner circle of the Invincibles at Dublin had
ascertained Mrs. Carey's actions. At every
port of departure of steamers in the United
Kindom, as we'll as at Havre, Antwerp and
Continental ports generally, there were ac-
credited agents to be advised of any new
DEVELOPMENT. O'Donnell, the agent chosen
for London, was advised of Mrs. Carey's
movements; he took passage for Cape Town
by the same steamer, and was, it is said,
accompanied by his wife he went on board
when Mrs. Carey and her children passed
the gang-plank in the East India dock
basin, and kept watch on arrival at the
port of call, Dartmouth, for the arrival of
the object of his vigilance. Nor was he
disappointed, On the 9Th OF July James
Carey stepped on board, accompanied by
porters carrying luggage and two London
detectives, and his doom was sealed from
that hour. The story of the voyage is in
the main correct. 1t was after landing at
Cape Town and the transfer to the steamship
llelr0se for Port Elizabeth that the desper-
ate act was committed. Mrs. Carey did
not affect any knowledge of her husband
until they had gone on board the liefrOSe.
The police claim to have proofs that
O'Donnell drew the eXecutioner's lot in Dub
lin; that he was posted in London by the
Invincibles, under orders to follow Mrs.
Carey wherever she went until, somewhere,
she should, with her children, meet the
man who, by her and their conduct, would
be indicated beyond all doubt as Carey,
and to kill that man the moment his iden-
tity was so made out. The officers say that
Mrs. ODonnell was taken along to assist
her husband by ingratiating herself with
Mrs. Carey and her children. The state
ment made by O'Donnell that he did not
know Carey until he reached Cape Town is
explained by the police as being given out
by O'Donnell for the benefit of the 1nvin-
cibles at home, to explain to them that his
mission had been delayed and rendered
difficult by the fact that Carey's conceal
ment was kept up until after Cape Town
was left.
O'Donnel was placed in irons by the
ships officers Immediately after the shoot
ing. He seemed to glory in the deed, and
his jubilant words reported to-day were:
''That is James Carey, the traitor; | have
sent his soul to hell, where it will never
meet it's victims"
The magisterial inquiry is going on, or
has gone on to-day, at Port Elizabeth.
There is some doubt about the place of final
trial, but my opinion is that as the offence
was on the high seas the prisoner will be
brought to England and tried by an admi-
ralty cOmmissiOn-that is to say, by the Or
binary Judges, with perhaps the First Lord
of the Admiralty sitting on the bench as a
piece of courteous fiction. Ireland is stirred
up by the event from centre to circumfer-
ence. One thing is made certain. Dublin
Castle cannot afford to despise an organiza-
ton capable of such keen arrangement and
such nurtured work.
A new version Of the shooting is that
Carey first attracted attention from O'Don
nell by some imputed remarks made at a
hotel in Cape Town, during short stop
there, when he took occasion to roundly
abuse the English in their treatment of
Ireland. After O'Donnell had been placed
under arrest at Port Elizabeth, it is said
that Mrs. Carey sought an interview with
him and asked him whether he was the
man who shot her husband. She says that
his reply was: eyes. l was sent out to
do it,"