Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 September 1883 — CAREY’S FATE. [ARTICLE]

CAREY’S FATE.

Further Particulars of the Killing of the Informer. A newspaper printed at Capetown, South Africa, gives some interesting details of the outward voyage of Carey in the Kinfauns Castle; “A fellow-passenger named Williams, and one of tbe stewards of the ship, seem both to have been struck with the ro-em-blonce of "the man to the pictures of Carey which they nad seen in the illustrated papers, and the fact that his family was of the same number as Carey’s, and that the eldest boy answered to" the description given of him at the time when he appeared as a witness in the Dublin trials, tended to confirm their suspicions. Between Madeira and this port the steward and Williams made it their especial business to find out conclusively whether the man was the notorious character they believed him to be. They had plenty of opportunities for doing this, as Carey and his w ife freely indulged in liquor throughout the voyage, and the secret wormed out of the children wdthout much difficulty, so that a few days before the arrival of the Kiiifauns Castle in Table Bay all doubts were removed as to Mr. Power’s identity. He had an unlimited supply of ready cash, and both his wife and children were treated to anything they might desire He said he was a builder by trade, and was going to settle in Natal. One of tbe persons who Was taken into the secret was O Donnell When told that Power was none other than Carey, he dedai ed that if he were but satisfied of the man’s identitv. he would ’d—d 60on let daylight into his vile carcass,’ and the ship seems to have arrived here before his doubts on this point had been removed. While the Kinfaims Chhtle was in the dock, Carev came ashore w ith Mr two 'eldest boys, and while in town fell in with Williams and another man who came out in the ship, known as ‘Scotty. ’ Among other places they visited w’as the City Hotel in Wa erkant street, and while there an altercation arose among them on political question?. Carey said the English were a people too base to five. If he had Mb way, he said, he would exterminate every one of them. ‘lreland for the Irish! that’s my mot'o,’ he said ‘And what would they do with it:*’ retorted Scottv. ‘They would eat one another up.’ ’Do you mean to say that they are cannibals?’ roared Carey, and his hend was on the throat of Scotty, whom he would have Choked but for the intervention of Williams.. Saturday morning, when the Arfftm appeared, it was known all over town that Carey had been recognized, and the news soon spread over the ship. Williams was ashore about JO o’clock and procured a paper. When he got back to the ship Power asked him if he could let him see a copy of the Argun. said he could, and watched him while he read it. He looked hurriedly through the paper until he came to what he required, read that,and then sat for some minutes witjj his hand Covering his face. He asked permission to take the paper to his wife, who was in the cabin, as there was something in it which he wished her to see. He returned it a few minutes afterward, saying that it was so dark in the cabin that he could not see to read He subsequently asked for the loan of the paper a second tune, and is said to have worn a very terrified appearance from the moment he knew that his identity was established. From what transpired in Cape Town O’Donnell seems to have been satisfied as to his man, and, in taking leave of "Williams, who assured him that there could be no doubt on the matter he again vowed that he would ‘let daylight into the scoundrel before they got to the next port” 5