HOW CAREY TURNED INFORMER.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1138, 23 August 1883, Page 3

HOW CAREY TURNED INFORMER.

A London correspondent of the Argus asserts that the real story of the conviction of the Irish ‘ Invincibles’ is as follows : Mr Murphy, Q.C., the counsel for the prosecution, finished one of the preliminary examinations before the magistrates with this peroration : * On the next occasion that I come before you, sir, I shall be able to say in every detail by whom and under what circumstances the Phoenix Park markers were committed.’ The promise made a great impression, as hitherto very little had been disclosed (and indeed, as it turned out, very little known). The prisoners were particularly impressed, and tried to exchange words with one another as they were led away. What was in every man’s thought was ; ‘ Someone of us has betrayed the rest.’ that same night Cnrley, the man who wrote the letter the night before his execution thanking heaven that he was no informer, sent for the solicitor of the Crown, Now, the Crown did not want Curley, whom they suspected, and rightly, of having been one of those who actually struck the fatal blow, to turn Queen’s evidence. They wanted Carey to do so, who they knew had been the contriver of the whole conspiracy, but was not one of the actual murderers. The door of his cell, which was next to Curlej’s, was therefore purposely left open, and when be heard the footsteps of strangers going by he looked out, ‘ Who is that ?’ he asked of the Inspector of Police. ‘lt is the solicitor for the Crown,’was the reply, ‘whom Curley has sent for.’ ‘ Then don’t go to him ; come to me, who knows more, and will tell you more.’ And they went to him accordingly,