Bridport, Beaminster, and Lyme Regis Telegram and Dorset, Somerset, and Devon Advertiser. — 1882-06-16 (Bridport, Dorset, England)

ANOTHER SHOCKING DOUBLE MURDER. • LANDLALD AND MS GUARD SHOT Di•D.  Mr. Walter M. Bourke, of Curraleagh, county Mayo, and Rahassane Park, county Galway, an extensive landlord and also a land agent, was shot dead on Thuraday, at Ardrehan, near Athenry. His escort, a soldier of the Dragoon Guards, was also shot dead. No arrests have ben made. Mr. Bourke, it may be remembered, served personally notices to quit on a number of his tenant.. He carriad about a double-barrelled gun with him, and on one occasion a disturbance was created in chapel by his insisting on carrying a gun in with him. He is a relative of the Very Rev, Canon Bourke, P. P. Claremorris. Mr. B3utke was riding in front and his escort, a Royal Dragoon, was riding close after him. A volley was fired by persons concealed behind a wall, and both men fell dead. They were soon after discovered on the road, but n 3 trace of the murderers could be found. Mr. Bourke possessed two properties, one at Curraleagh, near Claremorris, in the county Mayo, of which he was a magistrate, and the other at ttahasaane, In the county Galway. The latter was purchased within recent years. Mr. Bourke was a barrister by profession, and amassed a considerable sum of money an India. He was no relative whatever of the late Under-Secretary, neither did he belong to the same family. Gort for a short time back has been One of the worst places in Ireland for disputes with respect to  lIIi-ie  rents.The Freer Astociation says Mr. Bourke's brother, whoxesides in London was in the lobby of the House of Commons on Thursday night, anxious to learn such particulars as the Government ha t reoeived of the murder. When a question upon the subject was firtt asked by Mr. Carbutt, M.P. whilst the House was In Committee upon the Crime Prevention Bill, it naturally caused considerable excitement, but all the information which could then be got was o Attained in the brief telegram received by the Government, simply announcing the fact of the aspaisinatione. • Much sympathy is expressed for the family of the deceased, and especially for his widowed mother, who is a ver aged lady and an invalid. The late Mr. Bourke has more than once been a candidate for Parliamentary honours. Upon one occasion he contested Tralee with Lord O'Hagan, and at the last election he was nom. Mated for Mayo against the Rev. Isaac Nelson, M.P., but withdrew before the polling day. He WM a barrister, and was formerly in practice at the Indian Bar. He inherited some pr.perty in Mayo, but on returning from India bought an estate in Galway, where he is said to have been unpopular with the tenantry. Believing himself to be a marked man ha seldom went out without protection, and was not n .armed, even in attending man. On a recent occasion he aqended the church at Carraroe armed with a rifle and repea'ing revolver, which so incensed the people that he had to be escorted out by a back way m order to escape the violence of the crowd. Messrs. Parnell and Dillon, as well at nearly every other member of the Irish Parliamentary party, expressed their regret at the assassination of Mr. Bourke and his escort. They state that for the last A terrible exemplification of the danger of mistaking six months the Land League organisation has ceased toa..stoola for mushrooms is reported. A tam lit of the to exist in that di4rict, and that wherever tvico. .-g rauu ..f And, tvux, coo.i.ting of e'" p 4 SOU, b.te b.tu at hiureau". in the department of the Seine-at- ham been put down agrarian outrages have multip.i 1. gredthrough eating poisonous fungi. Me .1,4 aid wag The crime they think is purely Arabic:l;n one, and sasameasda but all six died la fear. al agony. The victims should not befooked upon as turn an argument ere a mother, her three dsughtto s 410 15. 19, and 15 in aupport of the new Coercion Bill, t rather se gr afteG4Tel/L her son (aged £44 and her eon•iir against the linwiadant 01 ita 1114•111P1W