PUBLIC OPINION ON THE MURDER OF CAREY.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1150, 20 September 1883, Page 3

PUBLIC OPINION ON THE MURDER OF CAREY.

In'regard to the murder of Carey, in Dublin it is said Carey himself chose to go to Natal. Ho would not go to Australia, because he knew that many Fenians, fearing arrest, had escaped to that country. When the news of iiis murder reached Ireland the wildest delight was manifested. Mobs entered houses and seizing Bedding, furniture and other articles with which to make bonfires, and effigies of the dead informer were burped, and mock funerals held in various Irish i towns; ■ Eight enormous bonfires

blazed around Carey's old residence, also fires in other streets. A band marched through the city playing national tunes, followed by crowds of people cheering as they marched.- A slight collision occurred between the crowd and the police officials. In London the murder continued the sole subject of conversation for davs, but no word of sympathy was elicited tor the informer's fate. The limes in an article on the subject, thought the occurrence a public misfortune, as Carey had been an instrument in the attainment of justice, and his murder was calculated to encourage acts of violence ; while the joy caused in Ireland by the homicide was a proof of the many elements of danger that exist. It is an open secret that Earl Spencei, Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland, is much anDoyed by the murder of Carey. A despatch from Dublin dated August 4tb, says the informer James Carey, early in 1882 sent two men to London to shoot Mr William E. Forster, then Chief Secretary for Ireland, but their courage failed them.

In Dublin on August 20th two men were put under heavy bail for threatening the life of Francis Carey, a brother of the murdered informer. When Francis was attacked he drew a revolver, covering his assailants, and held them till they were transferred to the custody of the police. The Home correspondent of the Wellington Post, writing on July 2nd says : —A rumour is afloat here that the Carey family have gone either to Queensland or New Zealand. I understand detectives who accompanied James Carey about laugh at the idea of his long keeping the secret of his identity. He talks incess-, antly, chattering the silliest nonsense re Irish Affairs and not seeming to understand why anyone should despise or hate him. Amusing incidents are related concerning the doings of other members of the family on the way to London. Mrs Carey, who has aged considerably since the an est of her husband, has become addicted .to drink. The two eldest boys, aged respectively 15 and 16, were difficult to manage. For instance, while one of the officers was getting tickets at Northwall they ran off, and he found them after a long search in a public house, smoking cigars. By the time they reached the boat the gangway had been removed, and they had to jump on board. In London they bathed four times a dry. On one occasion they took a retriever dog into the water and were taken into custody, and the officer had to pay a fine for them. Mrs Carey wanted to attend mass on Sunday, but the detective officer happened to be Roman Catholic, and would not accompany her. The children were taught to assume a uew surname, and when James Carey joined them in London they were unable to recognise him. His beard was shaved, but he was continually speaking, and he had a knack of falling into conversation with everyone he came in contact with Before he arrived, he wrote his wife a long letter, brimful of affection, referring to the 22 weeks they had beeu separated since his arrest, and vowing that when he joined her agiin they never would be parted until death. He had nobody to love him but her. The letter contained repeated injunctions to carefully pack all their furniture and belongings, and in conclusion he sent kisses to her and the children, indicated by lines of stars, the length of which was regulated by the measure of his affection for each.