OUTRAGES IN IRELAND

Feilding Star, Volume III, Issue 22, 30 August 1882, Page 3

OUTRAGES IN IRELAND

As day after day brought no reports of fresh crimes (if violence from Ireland, hope* were entertained that more peaceful times hid dawned. These expectations were rudely scattered by another terrible and double murder on the Bth. Mr Walter M. Bourke, of Gif^r:|^a^-l(i County, vlii-vof and Rathasane Park, County ("i.ilwuy, an extensive landlord -and fil o a lanr, ag-ent was shot dead on tha' day at vrdrahan near Athenrv. 1 1 is escort, a soldier of the Dragoon (Guards, was also :-hot, dead. Mr. Bnurke was riding in front, and his escort was ri injr I close after him. A volley was fired' : by persons con,ceaje<i behinct a wall. a< d both men fell dead. They were soon after discovered on the road, but no trace of the murderers could tre found. Mr. Bourke po>sest : e(l two properties, one at C'urralea»-h, m>ar Clarenforfis, in the ccunty Mayo, of which he was a magistrate, and the other at Kathasane, in the county Galway. He r«"'C"ntlv served notices to quit on a number of his tenants, amj 'S said to have been »erv unpopular with them. Believing himself to. be a marked man, he seldom went out without protection, and was not unarmed, even in attending mass. Mr-^ Bourke had more than once been a candidate for Parliameiiitary-.UAnours.'' f T pon one occasion he contested Tralee with Lord O'liajjan, and at ihe last el action he was nominated for M;iyo against the Key. Isaac Nelson, M.P., but wiihili'ew before 'tlie polling- diiy. i c was a barrister, and was formerly :n practice at the India*) Bar. He inherited some property in . .\iavo, but en returning-, from India bought the estate In Gahvay. A Giiivcrnment reward of £'2,000 has been off. red for information which will le;id to the conviction of the murderers, and a private reward of £1,000 is also offered, ami £000 for any iiii'orutatiou which' wilHj:adrt*» the canviction of ar.y £ersoir ■who 'harbours t(ie murderers.