HOW THE SECRETARIES WERE MURDERED.

Patea Mail, 17 May 1882, Page 3

HOW THE SECRETARIES WERE MURDERED.

Particulars.of . the assassination of the Chief Secretary for Ireland and the Under Secretary wore telegraphed to the Melbourne Ape as follow : : Lord Frederick Cavendish and Mr T. H. Burke were walking together in Phoenix Park at 7 o’clock in the evening, when a cab halted alongside them, and .five disguised men alighted and .suddenly attacked the two nieh with daggers.' Evidently a desperate struggle ensued,-as : the bodies were-found covered with wounds. The people of Dublin are stupified at this terrible mufdeff which otcurred in broad daylight. The.; police are scouring both city and country. .‘ Lord Frederick Cavendish had arrieved with Lord Spencer, the new Lord Lieutenant, on the previous day, and had experienced a cordial reception. .-raf. f ;'/■ : m The bodies of the murdered gentlemen were found forty yards from the viceregal lodge by a Mr Macgnire, a.bicylist. A boy named Jacobs states that he saw a group of men apparently wrestling ; two of them fell, and the others entered a cab and drove in the direction of the Chapel and Zoological Gardens. The bodies were conveyed to St. Stephen’s Hospital, where it was found that Mr Burke had received several stabs in the region of the heart, and his throat was cut. Lord Cavendish’s arm was smashed ; and there were wounds; on his chest, his lungs being pierced. The clothes'bf both victims were torn. Their money and valuables were left untouchedPhoenix Park was crowded at the time, but the persons who were sitting within a few hundred yards of the scene of the atrocity heard nothing of it.