ASSASSINATION OF JAMES CAREY THE INFORMER.
Cape Town, July 3 n . Intelligence has heeu received here f otn Port Blizalietu that James Carey, die Pine nix Park informer, was shot dead yesterday on B iard the Steamer Melrose hy a man named O’Donnell, wh > had been, a 'follow pass nger with uim from London. The attack was a very su iden one, and Girev died iuslanianeously from the wound he received. O'Donnell, who shot J.im-'S Carey on hoard the Melrose ar. P rt Elizabeth, has been arrested by the police. London July 31. James Carey, the informer m the Phoenix Park murders, was travelling under the assumed name of Power, and was shot as the steamer Melrose was nearing Port Elizabeth and expired shortly after receiving the wound. O’Donnell, the murderer, was de livered over to the -Nata police. On the News of Carey’s death reaching Ireland there was t.he wildest* excitement iujCork an 1 Dublin. 1
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Dunstan Times, Issue 1109, 3 August 1883, Page 3
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