Morning journal and courier., 1882-05-08
News by Telegraph FROM ALL QUARTERS. THE ASSASSIN'S KNIFE IfeIand's New Secretary Stabbed to Death. A MURDER IN BROAD DAYLIGHT. No Trace Found of the As-
 saSSinS.
 THE LAND LEAGUE INDIGNANT, 1 Horror of the Crime on all
 Sides.
THE OLD WORLD.
Ireland.

Stabbed to Death-Lord Cavendish Slain
 i'm Phoenix Park - Under Secretary
 Burke Shares His Chieftain's Fate-A
 Foul Murder in Open DayIight-No Clue Sto inc Perpetrators-AW Widespread Feel
 ing of Indignation.
 DUBLIN, May Mot long after o'clock last evening two young men who were riding bicycles through ,Peoenix Park discovered two dead bodies lying about ten paces apart, their condition and surrounding evidences giving indications of a fearful struggle hay ing taken place. They immediately notified the police and on investigation it was found that the bodies were those of Lord Frederick Cavendish, the newly appointed Chief Secre- tary of Ireland, and Thomas Henry Burke, the Under Secretary. Lord Cavendish had only arrived in this city yesterday afternoon and was present at the installation ceremony in Dublin Castle, leaving there early in the evening with MT. Burke. On examination it was found that Mir. Burke had received sev- eraf stabs near the region of the heart and his throat had been cut almost completely across. His clothes were absolutely saturat- ed with blood and the hemorr rhage must have been tremendous. His clothes were also torn. His gloves had been torn in many places and his hands bore marks suggestive of Q fierce encounter with his assailant. Lord Frederick did not wear gloves. He had been stabbed in several places about the chest. One wound was through the right lung and penetrated deeply. At the time of the dread ful occurrence the park, as might be expect ed on a lovely evening, was crowded in many places with people. It is 8 remarkable fact and one suggesting that the murderous on- slaught must have been short, terrible and decisive, that many persons sitting and walk ing within a'few hundred yards of where the bodies were found heard nothing of the af- fair
 The first inquiry regarding the affair de- veloped the following Shortly after seven o'clock Lord Cavendish and Mir. Burke left the Under Secretary's lodge to walk over to the Chief Secretary's residence to dinner. When within one hundred yards of the Phoe- nix monument they were attacked by four men wearing slouched hats. It is supposed that Mir. Burke was first assailed and stabbed through the heart. Lord Frederick Caven- dish attempted to defend him, but he too was stabbed by the assassins They repeat, edly plunged their knives into the breasts of their victims, and having cut their throats they got on a and drove rapidly from the park by the Chapelizod gate. A few minutes aftorward man walking along the park road found the bodies covered with blood, and at once informed the police, who had the bodies removed to the Stephens hospital.
 None of the assassins have as yet been ar rested, nor can the car into which the mur- derers jumped after committing the deed be traced beyond the fact that when they en- tered 1t they drove toward Chapelizod Lord Cavendish's body was embalmed to day and will be sent to England tonight Mr. Whyte, the city coroner, opened the inquest in the lecture theatre of Stephens Hospital this morning and in his address to the jury said Ireland had been overshadowed by the most disgraceful crime that had ever hung over her It was, the coroner said, the most mel ancholy event that has happened in the history of the country for centuries and he hoped the perpetrators of the hor- rible deed would soon be discovered and made to suffer the full penalty of the law for their crime. At the conclusion of MT. Whyte's address the jury viewed the bodies and adjourned until tomorrow. The Duke of Devonshire, the father, and the Marquis of Harrington, the brother of Lord Caven- dish, arrived here this evening and are now | at the viceregal lodge. No announcement has been made confrmatory of the report circu- lated late last night that Earl Spencer, the ] new Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, desired | that his resignation should be immediately accepted. An indignation meeting will be 1 held here to morrow at which the Lord May | or will preside.
 I Telegrams have been received from all the | Land League members of Parliament in Lon don denouncing the murders and expressing the hope that the assassins will be captured I and suffer the penalty of their crime The
 O6se,uer, the leading Sunday liberal paper, l demands the immediate issuing of a procla- nation declaring martial law in Ireland.