One hundred years ago
A great crime, unprecedented, in some of its features, for atrocity, has appalled and saddened the United Kingdom. On Saturday, shortly before eight p.m., two shop-assistants riding on bicycles passed two men lying dead, or dying, in a cor- ner of the Phoenix Park, Dublin, within sight of the Viceregal windows. They warned the police, who hastened to the spot, and found that the murdered men were Lord Frederick Cavendish, just ap- pointed Chief Secretary of State for Ireland, and Mr T. H. Burke, the Per- manent Under-Secretary. They had, ap- parently been surrounded and stabbed with bowie-knives or double-edged dag- gers. Neither spoke after they were found, but Lord F. Cavendish moved his eyes and Mr Burke breathed a few moments after they were originally discovered. Lieutenant Greatrex, of the 1st Royal Dragoons, saw six men scuffl- ing and four of them, dressed in dark clothes, remount a car and drive away, but thinking it a drunken quarrel did not attempt to stop them, only remarking to the men, 'Rough work!'
Spectator, 13 May 1882
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