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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XI, Issue 20, 7 September 1883, Page 11

Wednesday.

Information concerning the antecedents of O'Donnell, the murderer of James Carey, has been snpplied to the Gulgong papers (.the So?ith Avstialian Beghtor says) by Mr. B. D'Orsay Ogden, the comedian. . Mr. Ogden, who is himself a native of the Southern states of America, says that he knew O'Donnell intimately during the insurrectionary war in that country. That at that time O Jonnell was a lieutenant in the Confedrate army, and served *»• I rarest-marshal's department under General Winder in Kichmond, Virgina. He was a man of undoubted courage, and of Jax principles ; the latter, he thinks, were occasioned more from his dissipated habits and love of drink than from any inherent viciousness. After the war he went to Texas, where he fell lower and lower untui at length he found champamonship amongst guerillas and bush whackers -the horse and cattle lifters +hat infested that portion of the country. O'Donnell afterwards made his way to New York, a man of desperate fortunes, and there joined the Fenian organisation, entering into the spii it of the cause with all the impulsiveness and fervour of his Hibernian nature. While serving in the army he was generally in hot water with his brother officers. Mr. Ogdeu was lieutenant-colone lin a Virginia cavalry regiment, when he made O Donnell'B acquaintance. He assuws us that, from his knowledge of the Fenian organisation, he has not a shadow of a doubt that its emissaries will within 12 months take the lives of all the informers who gave evidence against their fellows in the late trial ; that O Donnell is not a man who would commit murder stealthily, or feel any remorse at taking a life in such a cause : on the contrary, he would glory in the sanguinary act, and boast of his intention to

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