The Central Glamorgan Gazette, and General, Commercial, and Agricultural Advertiser. — 1883-08-24 (Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

THE ASSASSINATION OF JAMES CAREY.  The Cape mail which arrived at Ply mouth on Tuesday brought Colonial papers containing reports ot tile murder of Carey, and of the examination of O'Donnell before the magistrate at Port Elizabeth. The two men were sitting together on board the Melrose steamer, when O'Donnell drew a revolver and fired three shots at Carey, who was travelling as Power. The latter died in a quarter of an hour. O'Donnell was remanded.  The Cape papers give particulars of the assassination of James Carey, in addition to the facts already known in England. There was a detective on board the Kinfauns Castle in charge of an exmanager of the country branch of the Standard Bank. who is charged with embezzlement, and two or three days before the mail steamer arrived in Table Bay it was rumoured that James Carey was on board. No one seems to have paid much attention to it, and the report missed by as one of the idle ones common to shipboard life, originating in the circumstance of the presence of the bank manager and his companion. Carey. or rather Mr. Power, as he was known on board, is described 118 a fine-looking man, with a face clean shaven, excepting a heavy dark moustache, and of unassuming manner. He was cheerful throughout the passage, courteous to all whom he addressed, and very attentive to his children. There was nothing to indicate throughout the voyage that Power was James Carey, or that O'Donnell bore him an ill-feeling. It is noteworthy that O'Donnell had only taken his passage for Table Bay, but a few days before arriving there he paid the difference between the passage amounts to enable him to go on to Natal. He is said to have had a good supply of money with him. The first intimation which O'Donnell seems to have had of the presence of Carey is contained in the following statement made by Robert Burns, fore-cabin steward of the Kinfauna Castle: "I was reading a newspaper on last Saturday morning in the forecabin. Mr. O'Donnell was sitting next to me. I remarked to Mr. Leonard, who had lent me a paper, ' Did you see this about Carey, the informer?' He replied, 'No. What is that ?' I read the paragraph to him. O'Donnell exclaimed, 'lf I had known he was on board of the ship I would have swung for him;' and he looked awfully excited and turned pale in the face. I saw how excited he was, and I changed the subject immediately. O'Donnell was an abstemious man. Immediately after of st,- I read the paper, he came and had a bottle of stout. I then asked him why he inquired about Carey, and he said he wished to treat him as a friend. This was about one o'clock, and he was transferred to the Melrose about two o'clock. I did hear that he was been to put a revolver in his pocket. The morning after hearing the news received about Carey being on board he moved about the ship with a preoccupied air, and he told several passengers that if he was certain it was Carey he would shoot him. He was seen in Carey's company before the Melrose left, and was probably trying to find out the truth." Some rougns on the jetty cheered O'Donnell ~n landing. He was brought ashore handcuffed to the rails of the launch, with a policeman on each side. He smiled occasionally, and treated the whole affair with surprising coolness. A cast of the deceased man's face has been takcs by Dr. Considine.