MURDERS IN IRELAND.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 6384, 29 July 1882, Page 3

MURDERS IN IRELAND.

SHOOTING A MAGISTRATE AND HIS BODYGUARD.

(Home News.)

A frightful double murder was perpetrated at Ardrahan, near Gort, County Galway, on the afternoon of June Bth. Mr Bourke, ef Rahassan* Park, who for some time past has been under special protection, was returning home, accompanied by his bodyguard, a soldier belonging to the ltoyal Dragoon Guards, when several shots were fired by some persons concealed behind a wall. The shots took immediate and fatal effect upon both Mr Bourke and his guard. The police, as soon as the crime was discovered, set out to track the assassins, who have, however, not yet been arrested. Mr Bourke, the murdered gentleman, about 40 years of age, was the spn of t)ie late Mr J. Bourke, Crown solicitor for Mayo, wa.ii educated at Stonyhurst and Ofongowes Wood, and graduated at Trinity College, Dublin, as senior moderator. In 1859 he was called to the bar, and afterwards successfully practised in India for soveral years. On his return to Ireland, after amassing a considerable sum of money, he bought Kahassane, which had been in the possession of an old family well known in the district. He had also property at Curraleigh, near Claremorris, County Mayo, which ha had inherited. He is stated to have been a good landlord, and during the recent, distress in his neighbourhood ho took an active part in assisting the people, with whom he was very popular. When the distress ceased, and ha began to look for his rents, the tide of popular feeling turned against him. His life was threatened, and Be was obliged to go about armed. Even when attending his place of worship with his family he had to take a doublebarrelled gun with him. This was made the subject of an indignant complaint to the Lordlieutenant by a Roman Catholic clergyman, and the congregation demanded his expulsion. He recently stated to the late Under-secretary, the ill-fated Mr Burke, that he knew he would be shot sooner or later. The precautions which he took were ridiculed in the Land League Press, and it was pretended that he was perfectly safe. Mr Bourke has lately been constantly attended by a soldier of the Dragoon Guards. On the day of his murder he was returning on horseback from attempting to collect some rents, followed by his escort, and while passing through a place called Ardrahan, near Gort, several shots were fired by persons in ambush, some of which took effect on both riders, killing them instantly. Their bodies were soon afterwards discovered on tho road, but'no trace of the murderers was found, although it is stated that six men were seen ieaving the spot. Mr Bourke contested Mayo with Mr O'Connor Power at the last election but one, and was nominated to oppose the Rev. Isaac Nelson at the last election, but withdrew; he also on one occasion contested Tralee with Lord O'Hagan. He is described as a kind and amiable gentlemen, generally liked by all who camo in contact with him. He was no relation to the Under-secretary who was recently murdered in Dublin,

Mr Isidore B. W. Bourke, brother of tho murdered gentleman, has addressed the following letter to the nowspapers :—"How lonsr are we to bleed for the follies and feebleness of a political party ? Last night my murdered brother wrote me saying : 'It appears that the sub-commissioners are instructed to reduce rents, and it may be concluded that the Radicals, with their leader, are in the Parnell interest secretly.' I endorse my dead brother's words—written, I may say, in his blood—and I ask the English people, How long are we to wait for an end to this reign of terror ? Whilst parties are quibbling over words blood is being spilt with absolute impunity. Igo now to Ireland, perchance to fall as my brother did, though I have escaped the bullet on the battlefield. Would God that his death brought peace to Ireland—if so, his or mine were little matter; but, alas! each fresh victim is but a fresh example to overawe those who hold land, and an incitement to further outrage on the part of needy scoundrels, with a reward in tho transfer of property from' those who have low votes to those who have an overpowering majority. How long are the assassins to govern Ireland ?"

Dr Gillooly, Roman Catholic bishop of Elphin, a near relative of Mr Walter Bourke, has directed the priests of his diocese to admonish their flocks to use every effort to bring tho assassins to justice. Dr Gillooly has been throughout strongly opposed to tho Land League agitation.

An English paper has the following : —" The American public is said to be violently provoked by the fact that Mr Matthew Arnold should have taken as a serious piece of statistical information the statement made_ by tho Nation newspaper that not one man in a hundred thousand in America changes his shirt more than once a week or eats with a fork. The Nation, in reply to passionate protests from those who take more cheerfully to forks and clean shirts, admits that the statement is a hyperbolical illustration. ' We have all along,' it says, ' been ready to make large concessions in the way of increasing the proportion of men who change their shirts more than once a week —to make them one in a thousand, for instance —in answer to respectful remonstrance from any quarter.' Our own wither*) are not unwrang, for the writer says that his figures are just as applicable to England as to America. In the matter of the shirt, is not one in a thousand decidedly over the mark for this country.?"

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