The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1882-06-13 00:00:00

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ANOTHER SHOCKING DOUBLE MURDER.

• LANDLORD AND His GIULIO Mil DUD.
Mr. Walter M. Bourke, of Curraleath, county
Mayo, and Bahamians Park. county Galway, an
extensive Landlord and al.. a laud agent, was shut
dead on Thur.(lay, at Ardrahao, near Atheory. His
escort, a eoldier of the Dragoon Guards, was aim shot
dead. No arrests have b mods. Mr. Bourke, it
may be remembered, served personally notices to quit
on a number of his tenant.. He carried about •
double-barrelled gun with him, and on one occasion •
disturbance was created in chapel by his insisting on
carrying a gun in with him. He is • relative of the
Vary Ray. Canon Bourke, P.P. Clarsmorris.
Bourke was riding in front and his escort, a
Royal Dragoon, was riding close after him. A volley
was fired by persons concealed behind • wall, and
both man fell dead, They were soon after discovered
on the road, but a s tram of the murderers could be
found. Mr. Bourke possessed two properties, one at
Oarralaagh, near Olaremorris, in the county Mayo, of
which he was • magistrate, and the other at Bahamans,
Is ths county Galway. The latter was purchased
within recent years. lir. Bourke was • barrister by
profemion, and amassed • considerable Dam of money
in India, Hs was no relative whatever of the late
Under-Secretary, neither did he belong to the same
family. Gort for • short tints beck has beau one of the
worst planes in Ireland for disputes with respect to
rents.
The Press Association says Mr. Bourke)s brother,
who resides in Loudon was in the lobby of the House
of an Thirsday anxious to learn
each particulars at t • Government hat received of
the murder. When a question upon the subject was
gra wood by Mr. Car U, M.P., whilst the Roam
was in Committee upon the Cram Prevention Bill, It
naturally canoed considerable mcithament, but all the
information which could then be got was contained In
the brief telegram received by the Government, simply
announcing the fact of the amaminations. Much
sympathy is expressed for the family of the deceased,
and especially for his widowed mother, who is vor
sled lady mid an invaiid. The late Mr. Bourke has
more than once both a candidate for Parliamentary
honours. Upon one occasion he caatested Tralse with
Lord O'Hagan, and at the last election he warn nom.
lamed for Mayo against the Rev. Isaac Nelson,
tiff., but withdrew before the Dolling day. He
was • barrister, and was formerly in practice at
the Indian Bar. Es inherited some poverty in Mayo,
but on returning from India bought an estate in
Galway, where he is said to have been unpopular with
the tenentry. Believing himself to be • marked man
he seldom went out without protaction, and was not
unarmed, even in attending mans. On a mint
ocomion he attended the church at Corrine armed
with a rifle and repeating revolver, which so lammed
the people that he had to be escorted out by a back
way in order to amps the violence of the crowd.
11141•101. Parnell and Dillon as well as nearly 'ma
other member of thelrish Parliarnanthry
orz
mupend their regret at ths issaminatice
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bls escort. They state that for the last
six months the Lied Leiria organiestion has eismaed
to exist in that district, and that wherever boycotting
has been put down agrarian ostrages have multiplied.
Th. cams they think ia purely an isthmian one, and
should not be looked upon as tarnishing an argument
in rapport of the now Coercion Bill, but rather as
against the anwiadom of any attempt to suppress the
more legitimate forma of agitation.
'The assaminatiens were carefully planned and
maiigjously carried out. The wall b• ad which the
miscreants stood bad been Inopholed in order to enable
them to fir• with better effect. Mr. Bourke received
' • bullet wound behind the left ear, which instantly
proved fatal, while his escort, • corporal of the Lit
I Dragoons, received no lees than throe bullets, one poo-
-1 ing into the head and the others through the heart. A
madam= living msar the spot heard** shots, and sa*
; ihemominottive or ell in nuaber) imp kW *mid;