The Poole Telegram. — 1883-07-13 (Poole, Dorset, England)

THE DEPARTURE OF JAMES CAREY. The story of James Carey's banishment will perhaps never become fully known; but such particulars as have leaked out are sufficiently interesting for publication. It is well known that the G overnment found great difficulty in getting rid of Carey. S3me doubts are entertained as to whether all Carey'e letters to Judge Morris about the Trinity Ward election petition, and the liter to the Town Clerk requesting that the notices of the meetings of the corporations should be sent to him, though undoubtedly genuine in the sense of having been writ'en by Carey, were not written by him at the instigation of others, in order to throw the Fenian p orty off the scent, and render their efforts to trace his movements on leaving the prison futile. But there eon be no doubt that be gave trouble to the Government in reenact of his pe-sistent demand for a written pardon, and his equally p-raistent claim to a money reward for his services as an informer. Carey also claimed that he should have protection whether he left the country or remained in ie None of these demands were complied with. It was decided not to give him a written pardon, and he is thus technically still in the position of a man who may be tried for his life. Lord Spencer was equally firm in refusing to recognise Cerey's claim to any portion of the reward, and the result is that the arch informer has gone to a foreign shore with 99M0 means of his own, but without these being in any way supplemented by public money. Carey was not entitled to any reward. He only came forward when he could not save his neck without 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 gaol, and by stopping all visits to them, cmveying the impression that they had left the country, or, at all events, that they had been removed from Kilmainham Gaol. On Monday night last an officer high in the Dublin detective service presented himself at the prison after lockup hours, and when all the officers except the governor and the deputygovernor had disappeared, and produced an order for the delivery over to him of James Carey. The order was complied with, and Carey and the detective officer took their places in a cat) which was in waiting for them outside, and drove jot o the city. The done, Carey was obviously in the power of the officer, and was compelled to submit t 3 his terms, which were that he should leave the couutry 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. Ile was conveyed the same night to Kingstown in the cab in which he had been brought from Kilmainham. He slept on board the steamer, and, accompanied by • detective, crossed to Holyhead, and thence to London, whither his family had been already removed in detachments along with other informer, and their families, notably Robert Farrell, to whcse disclosures in the first Jost ince the discovery of the perpetrators of the Park murders may be said to be due. So well managed were the entire ariaagements that the detective who ace onepanied Carey on board the steamer which was to convey him to his destination, and who handed him his passage warrant eneoaed in • sealed envelope, was not aware of C arey'a destination. That destination, it can only he said, is in some part of the eastern hemisphere. No more definite conjecture can be formed, as the steamer is one of a line which has numerous ports to call, any one of which may be the port of debarkation for James Carey.