JAMES CAREY'S ASSASSIN.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1148, 13 September 1883, Page 3

JAMES CAREY'S ASSASSIN.

Mr 11 D'Orsay Ogden, the comedian, baa supplied the Gulgong (South Australia) papers with some particulars respecting O'Donnell, which may prove of interest to our readers. Mr Ogden, who is himself a native of the Southern States of America, says that he knew O'Donnell intimately during the insurrectionary war iu that country. At that time O'Donnell was a lieutenant in the Confederate army, and served in the Provost-Marshal's department under General Winder, in Richmond, Virginia. He was a man of undoubted courage, and of lax principles; the latter, he thinks, were occasioned more from his dissipated habits and Jove of drink than from any inherent viciousness. After the war lie went to Texas, where he fell lower and lower, until at at length he found companionship amongst the guerella and bushwhackers -the horse and cattle lifters that infested that part of the country. O'Donnell afterwards made his way to New York, a man of desperate fortune, and there joined the Fenian organisation,

entering into the spirit of the cause w th all the impulsiveness and fervour of his Hibernian nature. While serving in the army he was generally in hot waier with his brother officers. Mr Ogden was lieutenant-colonel in a Virginia cavulry regiment when he made O'Donnell's acquaintance. From his knowledge of the Fenian organisation, he has not a shadow of doubt, that its emissaries will within twelve months take the lives of all the informers who gave evidence agninst their fellows in the late trial; that O'Donnell is not a man who would commit a murder stealthily or feel any remorse at taking life in such a cause ; on the contrary, he would glory in the sanguinary act and boast of his intention to commit the crime before perpetrating the deed. He would look upon it, first as a duty to observe his oath, and as an act of high patriotism to become the avenger.