The Atherstone, Nuneaton, and Warwickshire Times. — 1883-12-08 (Atherstone, Warwickshire, England)

THE MURDER OF CAREY, THE INFORMER.  O'Donnell's trial for the murder of the informer Carey commenced at the Old Bailey on Friday morning. The Attorney General having opened the case for the Crown, James Parrish and Thos. Jones repeated their previous evidence, as did also Carey's son and Mrs. Carey. Young Carey, however, when cross-examined, admitted having been wrong in some of his evidence at Bow.street, and said he could not remember O'Donnell's words in reply to Mrs. Carey. Nahum Marks, hotel-keeper at Cape Town,deposed to seeing through the hate hway Carey and the prisoner talking together. He afterwards heard a shot fired, and looking again thought he saw O'Donnell fire another shot. Replying to Mrs. Carey prisoner said, "I could not help it." In cross-examination witness said he thought O'Donnell was in liquor. Robert Cubitt, a new witness, said he went out in the Kinfauns Castle to Cape Town, and during the voyage Carey and O'Donnell were on friendly terms. At Cape Town a publican gave him a portrait of Carey, which he showed O'Donnell, who put it in his pocket, slying in quite a pleasant manner " I'll shoot him." The witnesses Becher and Cherry were then called, aud repeated the evidence given by them on previous occasions. Superintendent Mallon, of the Dublin police, testified to supplying Carey with a revolver before leaving Dublin, and in ei oes-examination said ho considered Carey a desperate man utterly regardless of human life. This concluded the case for the prosecution, and the Court adjourned at five minutes to seven o'clock.  The trial was brought to a close at nine o'cloAt on Saturday evening. Mr. Charles Russell, in the course of a long and elaborate speech for te defence, argued that O'Donnell's pistol was used only after Carey had shown his own weapon, and alarmed the prisoner by a dispoition to use it. The Attorney-General, in replying for the Crown, reminded the jury that this defence had not been urged when O'Donnell was seized, and that it remained entirely uncorroborated by evidence. The story, moreover, was inconsistent with that originally given by O'Donnell, and the theory of the defence could be maintained only by discrediting testimony which was not unworthy of credence. Mr. Justice Denman then summed up, warning the jury to be cautious how they accepted on any part of the case the uncorroborated narrative of the boy Carey. The jury, after a deliberation of nearly two hours, in the course of which they twice consalted the Judge upon points respecting which they were in doubt, returned a verdict of guilty, and O'Donnell was sentenced to death. The prisoner was vociferously defiant as he was removed from the dock by the warders. After bowing and affecting to smile, he resisted the efforts of the warders to lead him away. toSsed his head contemptuously, and said, " Hold on ; wait yet." Per missh n to speak being refused him, he threw his arms in the air and shouted. "Three cheers tor Ireland and the United States ! Goo I-bye all ! To hell %vith the British and the Crown !" What more he said came indistinctly to the ears of those in court from the cells to which he was rapidly borne, but this the excited and horrified assembly clearly gathered, that the man. just doomed to death had received that awful sentene, with still more defiant words and with other imprecations even more profane: