The Blandford and Wimbourne Telegram. — 1883-07-13 (Blandford, 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 Government found great difficulty in getting rid of Carey. Same doubts are entertained as to whether all Carey's letters to Judge Morris about the Trinity Ward election petition, and the let :er 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 written by Corey, were not written by him at the instigation of others, in order to thro w the Fenian party off the scent, and render their efforts to trace his movements on leaving the prison futile. But there can be no doubt that he gave trouble to the Government in resp3ct of his persistent demand for a written pardon, and his equally poreistent 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 it. 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 Carey's claim to any portion of the reward, and the result is that the arch informer has gone to a foreign shore with some means of his own, but without these being in any way supplemented by public money. Carey was not entitled to any reward. He onlywame 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, conveying 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 lock-up hours, and when all the officers except the governor and the deputygovernor had disappeared, and produced an order for the delivery over ta him of James Carey. The order was complied with, and Carey and the detective officer took their places in a cab which was in waiting for them outside, and drove int 3 the city. This done, Carey was obviously in the power of the officer, and was compelle 1 to submit to his term., which were that he should leave the country 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. He 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 a detective, crossed to Holyhead, and thence to London, whither his family had been already removed in detachments along with other informers and their families, notably Robert Farrell, to whose disclosures in the first instance the discovery of the perpetrators of the Park murders may be said to be due. So well managed were the entire ariangements that the detective who