Murder of the Informer CAREY.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 239, 11 September 1883, Page 3

Murder of the Informer CAREY.

HIS WIFE AND SONS EVIDENCE.

A special edition of the Cape Argus, received' by thesteamer Orient, contains particulars of the mnrder of Jam^s Carey, the informer. The following is the evidence given by Mrs Carey and her son Thomas :-Mrs Carey , who was greatly distressed, said that she and Seri-usband; shipped for a Natal from London under the name of Power. They were accompanied by their sevep ' children, the eldest boy being oiTtb say that she ■aw her husband inning towards her, .aying « Maggie,, 1 am jApt ; y 0 Donnell shot me." Witness asked the prisoner wno shot him, and prisoner replied, «*I shot him. I was sent to do .it V The prisoner said, v Your name is not Piiwer, iTis i O&rey." MrsO'Donnell said to her husband, "You are np inform^ J 6^onneli;'' The^ witness «Ud not shake hands with O'Dpnnell. , Tiw priibnw was sitting On a. settee, j o*Donnell, during the day, had asked the witness, prior tb the murder, where her'husbaWwas, when she replied, "on deck!* ' Whereupon the prisoner said, ~" «-e*ll~hi_i down i" Witness~didj so, and the prisoner stood a } bottle of beer. O^Donneil's wife was crying, and on -_m_eto_»king w wh^was^mat^ prisoner replied, ." She is homesick , I don't _nbw what •is the matter." Pnhad^oldiWitness that.he bad sold - bis revolver at Capetown for -£B~lQs, 1 6'Donneli and her husband used to play clice on The passege out. (I look 21. days, apdjduring^that time he and her husband were on the best terms; and if he'had^wlshed'tb injure him he. had plenty bf opportunity of doing so, as they w.ere often together. . She never heard a cross word between them, or any . threats. They, were confidents! and very friendly after: leaving Capetowjti. (.. • .. , „. . <-.- Thbs. ! *- , rancis Carby, ah "intelligent _ looking, lad, said : I ana, fifteen yearslof ■ age. '"* When father was "shot I was on the stairs leading to the second-class .. saloon. Father jvbs staddinguear op* of the cabins on the^theitarboard side. He was smiling' and^talklng to Q'Dop-ryjabßs'lLQ^Doniaol^drew*-wdvev irj froxa inside his f pocket. I saw him fire one jfaot atrathen" -he bullet struck him ,-,n the neck...7Fat_er staggered .towwds '!„ berth, '"where mother" was. I cant gay 'whether the prisoner stood up, but 1 saw him fire a second shot. Just at this time my -mother ran out. My father raji into my. mother's arms, ajnd cried out, «'Magjrie, Maggie, lam shot. Macdbnald shot me." We used to call O'Donnell Macdohald on board ship. —Cymbther was holding my father when a third^hot was fired. I was standing near the berths at the tiihe. The second officer, I believe- it was, rushed at p^ohneili and the Captain gave orders for his arrest. After the third shot my mother walked .^bver to O'Donnell, vfho _ays out his hand and said lie didn't; do Wor he had to do it. ' Mrs O'Donnell ■lid, "No matter, O'Donnell/ you are I went apd fetched ffflmfo revolver, because I thought; he migni^vant to defend himself. He got the revolvb? m Dublin. Mother had gome money and a cheque for £100, Which I took from father's pocket. It • was drawn on the Soutn African Bank, Natal.