JAMES CAREY INTERVIEWED.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XI, Issue 5, 25 May 1883, Page 5

JAMES CAREY INTERVIEWED.

A D ÜBLIN correspondent of the Times says in part : — James Carey, T. 0., the informer, now in Kilmainham jail, made several statements yesterday in answer to questions put to him during a long interview. He said — I never, directly or indirectly, have been the means of having any persons arrested on this or any other occasion. An informer is a person who decoys, and then for lucre ■ells his comrades. My statement saved innocent people who were not present in the park on the occasion— namely, M'Affrey, E. O'Brien P. Wbelan, Joe Smith and Fitzpatrick. I had no idea I should be asked many of the questions till I was examined. As to his seat in the Town Council, he intended to take it, and at the next vacancy for the aldermanship of his ward he should contest it. He said that the feeling of the Invincibles when they learned that Lord Frederick Cavendish was killed was one of regret. Carey made up his mind to save himself on Wednesday, the 14th of this month, when he heard Smith was arrested. He (.Carey) was not aware that some of his comrades were prepared to give evidence before he communicated his resolve to do so ; but he learned that which convinced him that what he knew was well known without him. When asked as to the identity of the woman who brought the arms, he said, " I never said' Mrs. Byrne was the woman who brought over the knives and rifle.' The Crown said, "We know it was Mrs. Byrne." He said, " I now believe she was Mrs. Byrne." Mrs. Byrne who was brought here to be identified by me, was not the woman whom I saw. He went on to describe his arrest and continued : — I most certainly intend to remain in the country— l could not conveniently leave, and lam not, nor never was, afraid of any man. I have always lost money, being engaged in politics. I defy anyone to say to the contrary. If I had all that I have lost I could have a. carriage and pair to-day. When asked, in reference to his evidence in the witness-box, if he had any particular wish to modify it, he answered " Yes."- In reference to the Land League. I spoke in haste when pressed for my opinion There is more made of those few words than they, are worth. Mr. Malloa called on me without my sending for him, and explained to to me my position." Carey was next asked whether he expected a large pecuniary reward. He replied, " \Vell, when I passed the walls of the city placarded with Tewards of ten thousand pounds since May last, I think that ought to be sufficient as to the insinuation that I did it for a pecuniary reward. ' No one regrets the role of approver more than I do. It was diamond cut diamond. I was hung before I was arrested. My hands are not stained with j blood, nor have I ever seen anyone either killed or wounded. No. , I have saved many lives. My character will bear the strictest scrutiny, socially, morally, and politically. There is nothing against my brother except that one night, at St. Mark's Church, while going home, he stopped to speak to come of the men he knew, and Farrell'saw him there. I do not know anything about any murder in, the city. I never was present at one except the unfortunate one under investigation (the Phoenix Park one), although I was not present actually. Everyone thinks I know everything. I was always minding my business. I did not write a letter of sympathy to Miss Burke. It would have been a base proceeding." At the conclusion of the interview he was asked whetiner Mr. Forster had not been particularly marked by the Invincibles," and he replied " Yes ; but only for the member for Bradford's name there would not have been many recruits." tn reference to the foregoing, Chief Secretary Trevelyan said on Monday night in the House of Commons that Carey had not been interviewed at all. „ - .