The Sequel.
«• • JA.MES CAREY SHOT. Capetown, July 30. Intelligence bas been received here from Port Elizabeth that the Phoenix Park informer, James Carey, was shot dead yesterday on board the Currie line steamer Melrose, by a man named O'Donnell, who had been a fellow-passenger with him from London. The attack was a very sudden one, and Carey died instantly of the wound received. Later. O'Donnell, who shot James Carey on board the Melrose, at Port Elizabeth, has been arrested by the police. London, July 31. James Carey, the informer in the Phoenix Park murders, was travelling under the assumed name of Power, and was shot as the steamer Melrose was nearing Port Elizabeth, and expired shortly after receiving the wound. O'Donnell, the murderer, was delivered over to the Natal police. On the news of Carey's death reaching Ireland, there was the wildest excitement at Cork and Dublin.
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Southland Times, Issue 4701, 1 August 1883, Page 2
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