Daily Los Angeles herald., 1882-06-14
AGRARIAN MURDERS.
Walter BOurlxe Shot from Ambush
The Assassins Escape.

LONDON, June llth.-The coldblooded
murder of Walter Bourke and his mill
tary escort in Galway has once more re-
called the attention of the public to the
Irish difficulty, which is yet far from
approaching a solution. Outside of the
official world everyone has become
heartily sick and weary of Irish affairs,
and the newspapers, recognizing this
fact, are not devoting so much space,
either to occurrences in the sister isle or
to Parliamentary debates affecting its
welfare. With such unconcern are these
repeated tales of villainy now received
that the Conservative papers are begin
ming Indignantly to inquire if any act,
however dastardly or stupendous, can
arouse the English to realization of the
terrorism which is rendering Ireland un-
inh ,bitable by any honest person. The
only further information received up to
midnight bearing upon the assassinations
is derived mainly from the statement of
Trevelyan, Chief Secretary for Ireland,
in the House of Commons. 1t appears
that Bourke and his escort were fired
upon through loophole of the wall of a
garden. The owner of the estate heard
shots and saw the murderers with their
rifles walk away across the fields, but he
seems, as usual to have been too timid
to take steps to lead to the Identification
or discovery of the assassins.
THE DEADLY SHOT.
DUBLIN, June 1.-THE bullet that
killed Bourke entered behind his left
ear. The dragoon who accompanied
him received three shots-one behind
the right ear, one through the right arm
and side, penetrating the heart, and
the third through the right wrist One
person saw the assassins, but cannot
identify them. Three men have been
arrested. One is named Martin and the
others are named Holland. One of the
latter is an evicted tenant. The soldiers
rifle and Bourke's sixteen repeater were
stolen by the murderers.
BoURKE AS A LANDLORD.
A cable dispatch to the New York
Herald says: A card upon the place Of
business of Thomas j. Bourke at 5Sl
Hudson street, in this city, yesterday
morning, bore the notice, ''Closed in
consequence of the death Of Walter Nj.
Bourke." When the brother of the
murdered man read the announcement
of the death, he was entirely overcome.
Being interviewed, he said: '..My muir
dered brother had been educated at
Clongo and Wood College, Ireland. AT
ter graduating at Trinity College, Dub.
lin, where he received the first gold
medal, he was admitted to the Irish bar,
and, after u short practice, went to
India, where he was made Advocate to
the High Court Of Calcutta. He
amassed fortune in India, returning to
Ireland in 1878. His possessions con-
sisted of the Curraghleigh estate, in the
County of Mayo, the rental OF which
was $1,000 year, and the Rahasene
estate, in Galway, which he had pur
chased in 1872 for f25, 900, whose rental
was FL, ,2OOO year. During the famine
he gave employment to sixty or seventy
men, when in reality, he had nothing
for them to do. | may safely say he
spent more than his entire income in
endeavoring to relieve the sufferings
caused by the famine; and yet, in that
very spot where he had done his best to
help the people, he was basely muir
dered. Up to the time | left Ireland
there was not a single eviction. Where
he found man unable to pay his rent,
/ have known him to entirely forgive as
much as three years of back rent.