CAREY'S ALLEGED CRIMES.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XI, Issue 32, 7 December 1883, Page 5

CAREY'S ALLEGED CRIMES.

The London Ohservcr tells the following sensational story of a number of crimes in the commission of which it is alleged the informer, James CaTey, took a leading part :— Borne of the terrible dimes which Carey. superintended have since his demise, become public property, and it is stated that crimes imputed to him were acknowledged by him after bis evidence had been accepted and when he was refusing to leave Dublin. At this time it was generally reported that the authorities had voder their consideration a proposition to prosecute Carey for the assassination of a bricklayer named Behan. Apart from this I have been informed on authority which I unhesitatingly vouch for as strictly accurate that James Carey was the murderer of George Clarke, who -was suspected of having, during the Fenian agitation, given the information to the police. Clarke was murdered on the 9th February, 1866 at the Pin Mills, on the banks of the Royal Canal. Clarke's information Xt the time was to the effect that while in Dublin city he was met by three men whom he knew. They said they wanted to speak to him on private business, and brought him to the lonely part of the canal. The four of them were proceeding along when suddenly they were aroused by footsteps after them. They turned round, and Clarke was met by two men, one of whom struck him on the head with & heavy instrument, which staggered him. While staggering he shouted " Good God ! what have I done?" Then the second man, who Carey acknowledged wa<? himself, stepped forward and shot Clarke in the back of the head, the neck and back. He died a day after, and three men who were arrested for the murder were subsequently discharged, r murder wh eh I also have heari that Carey boasted of haytaken part in was one committed on the night of the 20th February, 1870, at Usher's quay, Dublin. Andrew Mullen, gasfitter, was on that occasion shot dead while walking down the quay. One bullett passed through Mullen's heart and the other through his hip This was also a secret society murder. Mullen was suspected. He was told that there were arms iv a fruiterer's shop waiting to be removed, and some time afterwards the detectives searched the house but found no arms, as it was a trick by the society to find out who was giving infoimation to the police. Mullen hid been seen at the Cattle, and on that night he was shot. Independent evidence alleged to have been given to the authorities by one of the Invincibles who is in prison is to the effect that in the year 1880 Carey, while on Sir John Kodgersou's quay at night in company with this Invincible fought with a bricklayer named Beban. a young man. Carey struck Bdhan on the bead, seized him round th.3 waist, and threw him into tho river Liffey near the Custom House. No peison was ever made amenable for his death, though a verdict that death took place under suspicious circumstances was returned. Carey also, it is reporte 1 stated that he was overseer of the attack upon two policemen in' 1867— one of whom named Keenan was shot dead and the other Kelly, was wounded. He also acknowledged— or, at least, boasted—

that he was present at the attempt to blow up the Prince Consort memorial in Leinster lawn, Dublin, during the visit of the royal family in Dublin, and that he was leader of the party who attempted to blow up Lord Carlisle's monument in the Phoenix park. He also stated t^at he was the man who pointed out Head- Constable Talbot to the man who murdered him in Hrrdwicke street, and that he paid this man, who is now stated to be in America, for the murder at the rate of one pound per week for several months. Acknowledgments by the late notorious informer of these crimes were in nearly every respect corroborated by the evidence that had been collected at the tiaae of the murders and outrages.