THE PHCENIX PARK TRAGEDY.

Feilding Star, Volume III, Issue 5, 1 July 1882, Page 3

THE PHCENIX PARK TRAGEDY.

-'■' Dr Myltrs^ of ''Qtdeven'a Hospital,/!; Dublin, has' pitied thtf fcrtiowihg^JDaportant particulars of the wounds- refit lved .. by the unfortunate: victims of (Be das- . „ terdly murdiafl.in Phosnix Park- Dublin, .oil May position of the wc&nfo^i^f clear tha.t the victims of this TiomWecnme were" assailed both-Jrom bef.>'d oMiti front. ' Lord F. '/'avendish Tra^' struck three- timeff from behind— ' -DBwifiin'ihwneck, cince on the-shoulder, an© once m the .oaek. The wound was ifam the front,; probably wheu t^be arm was raised iv self-defence, arid ths'^ in .the left forearm w;ai probably Te^ivedjln warding of' a stab ajtned at tke-fronfof the chest. ThW fatal wound waV urifonbtedly tlat inflicted from i beliifloUantl whith divided the axillary vessels tf and death; . must hare been very speedy, -| Both the; . pounds }n Mr b^urkefs. neck were probably inflicted ! frow, bihiftd^as^that. on tl.e left side was . ilot 1; il/Mah,*Tj^it'. a/ctat, and its direction ■was tost ' oW^uefy ' downwards and ■ -iirwar^,' anf^ /'iheii' '• horizontal, as. if <ihe kwte aad been-dfawn acrossl the neck : fr^riUeffc to tight -from behind. Ihe thre^'wou«d&o?er the front of the chest were: taftde&qm, the front* as, were also those 041 the. lff t hand. That on the back of tile Wet, and .the one i( beloyr the left '■' «hotild^' werd stabu iroih behind. The woandfwhich.'jfterced the heart from hekind was the immediate cause of death . O.he Nothing of Lord Prederiekpaven-. • .<dish~ was cut in severaL places, And 'son lied ia/slood. Oub wound T)»S«ied quite {hMJigh the. neck ; .behind- it was , an.o therl &n*mch and a half Jon^j. Burkes ' ctHjththg' was considerably cut about, and 4 blood had flowed fr«eiy^ from the j mouth itf'.ipjjilrtfl a* from the "Wdiinds. Jie ha,dre- > i ttßiVftd more wdwndt* than Lord F. Cavendish — in all. All the wounds' were clean • ppifc,, 'except; .tb^u Urge , , 1 on^ . ovpt ' the scapula of.JVli^Burlfp, w ; lj.ich,F» s i*tber iajjg^ed. they 1 were ajso nea^ of the some ' Size, ka if they had" «f . been f> n/aqe with similar weapons. These were' evidently r daggers aboii ' ten' inches long. In each ease the cause of diftth V&shasmorrhage, . „. and,; amid Itllthefisajdness: which gathers round this&raguf efentv .we may. cherish th« consolation \ktf death \^as so apeedy as to robbed of its pains and terrors. '