Bridport, Beaminster, and Lyme Regis Telegram and Dorset, Somerset, and Devon Advertiser. — 1882-05-12 (Bridport, Dorset, England)

MICHAEL DAVITT. '  THE ASSASSINS SPOKEN TO I  The Lord Chancellor held an inquiry on Sunday at Dublin Caatie respecting the death of the Chief Secretary, and heard the Mitten:lea of Mr. Spenoer, M.P., and Captain Grestrer, of the let Royal Dragoons, who saw the tussle with the assailants, hit did not suspect whet had happened. He next saw 1 e men get on to the mar, and, as they drove away, remarked, in a careless way, " That was rough work." thinking It was a drunken row. They answered, 'Rough, indeed," and drove away by timaideroad that leads to Chapolizod and also to the lalani•bridge gate. It Ii remarked as st beet an anfortunete fatality, if DO It WM =Webb - that so preabutioos win  oiiiiii"  taken for the protection of the Chief Secretary, who, as a etranip r, in ght have been expected to need care. fal watching. Mr. Forever we, pirfecly f •arlesa and iefu•e i t., have any esti irt ; bat the polka authorities, without letting him know the fact, always bad a guard kept upon him. No watch appears to have been kept on Mr. Burke at any time. There seems to be no doubt that the steps of Mr. Burke were dogged on the day of the murder. A few days ag ) he received a threatening letter stating that, if he did not at once follow the example of Mr. Fonder and " clear out of the antic,' he would have onl three days to live. "To clear people out of the Castle' Is said to have been a form of order received from headquarters at New York, and it was tantamount to the alternative, " resignation" or " death." The terrble wounds seem to show that the weapons were bowie knives rather than daggers. All the evidence tends to show that the main snack was directed against Mr. Burke, and it even lends colour to the belief that Lord Frederick perished in the gallant struggle to shield his friend, though possibly neither had a moment's chance of life. Fault is found with the police for not having kept a watch over the Under-Secretary, but whatever fault there was rested with the deceased. He died because he was too brave. Since the Fenian rising in INT Mr. Burke had been in perpetual conflict with the moet dangerous classes in this country, and he necessarily shared a certain measure of nupopalarity. Constantly he reAved threats, which he has steadily disregarded. He had the fullest conviction that the roughs of Dublin would not take his life. The polioe pressed upon him to have a guard or an escort. He derided their fears. It is notorious that almost any day for the last fifteen years he might have been struck down as easily as he was on Saturday, and that within that period there has never been a tumult or a demonstration at which he has not exposed his life by mingling freely among the most desperate. There is a rumour thgt Mr. Burke had a strange nervous presintiment on Saturday, and that his voice faltered in a manner strange to him when he was reading the Queen's letter appointing the LordLientenent and the Chief Secretary. It is absolutely certain that he took no more precaution on Saturday than heretofore.  -7 ---- 7 Dublin fully sympathises vs:th the general grief. Outward signs of mourning are observable everywhere. For once, the newapapers are unanirboul. The Freeman's Journal, which appears in mournlni, declares that now, for the first time, "the dagger as introduced into the blood-stained annals of this unhappy island. In the long history of crime we search in vain for the record of a deed so awful and so terrible." In every other newapaper, in every church, at every public meeting, one hears the same sentiment; and, as it was tru y obaerved to-day, nowhere can you hear that brutal explanation that has ere this greeted the tidings of many a murder, "served him right." The most desperate and bloodthirsty would hardly dare to adopt this cloak for assassination to-day. In this case It may be said the Irish conscience has been t ,uched and the national honour wounded. The very atieat boys are anxious to wipe this foul stale Lora the flag of Erin. Shure, sir, it's not done by Iri,hmen at all." Thera is the extreme,t anxiety to know what will be the effect of the crime on English opinion.