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Auckland Star, Volume XXI, Issue 4121, 19 September 1883, Page 3

UNKNOWN.

C'Do-ino-1 on T..*in

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Lo.il——, September IS. Patrick: O'Donsku. Mas brought up to-day at Bow-street Police Court, charged with lho murder of James Carey, the Irish inormor, at Tort Elizabeth in duly last.

Some preliminary evidence was taken, and the case was remanded.

The following account of O'Donnell's final examination before the police magistrate at Port Elizabeth will be read with interest:— '

O'Donnell's demeanour when brought ■before tho Court was the same as it had been throughout the whole proceedings, ■perfectly cool. When placed in the dock there was a slight attempt at applause, and the magistrate stated that if it were repeated he would cleat* the Court. Evidence was given to the effect that a copy of the "Weekly Freeman" and a woodcut ct Carey wero found in the prisoner's box. Dr. Ensor, district surgeon, was called.

Mr O'Brien : 1 think, Doctor, since you •gave ovidencc in Court, you have examined the prisoner's arm ?—Yes, yesterday I made a minute examination. In the left ami tho moticn of tho fcre-KiTi is .■■■•"t*.*d L; an ci-.l injury to the elbow-joint, which he told me hud happened at Chnrlcsville. The other movements of the fore-arm arc right. The muscles between the lingers are quite wasted, and the little linger of the left hand is partly contracted. I to told me that this wasting of the hand came on gradually from overstraining the arm somo four years ago lifting somo hay with a pitchfork. For this condition he was ordered to use electricity.

Mr O'Brien : I want to show the reason why this battery was in his possession. Would such a galvanic battery be of servieo to tho prisoner '! Dr. Knsor : Electricity is used to restore wasted muscles as described.

Mr O'Brien : That is very satisfactory

His Worship: Patrick O'Donnell, you nre charged with the crime of wilful murder. You need not say anything unless yon like, but what you do say will bo taken down, and may be used in evidence against you. Have you got anything to say ': Prisoner: I am not guilty, my lord, of wilful murder. It was done by mc in selfdefence. Mr Carey pulled a revolver out of his right-hand pocket. I snatched the revolver out of his hand.

Prisoner, who occasionally smiled, Mas then taken from the dock, and after a short interview with his agent, was conveyed to the North-end Caul. In gaol, on Thursday night, O'Donnell was most restless. He was heard throughout nearly the whole of the night whistling and talking to himself. Between 11 o'clock and midnight stones wero thrown at the guard of volunteers doing duty at tho gaol. O'Donnell gives the following particulars concerning himself :—He is -18 years of age, and was born in the town of Mannacladdy, County of '.Donegal, where his mother and brother, Dan O'Donnell, and a sister, Maggie Duggan, still reside. He further states that when four years of age he went with his father and mother to tho States, but after a short absence returned to Ireland. Subsequently the prisoner paid eight visits to America, and bus, ho .says, several friends in Pennsylvania and Philadelphia. While the struggle was going on between the North and South, O'Donnell returned to Amelia from Ireland, but seemed to havo taken no part in that war. lie followed tho occupation of butler, though frequently between then and the presont timo having visited his native land. His heart appears to have been centred in America, and ho took his citizenship papers on the (ith November, 1876. On the lflth of May last- ho again left _ew York with tho intention of coming to South Africa, but wishing to pay a- visit to his friends in Donegal, ho landed in Londonderry, and spent some time visiting his family, when ho again sailed frim Londonderry, en route to South Africa. Prisoner states that the woman who came out with him is his wife.