The Sun.
London, England, 1859-12-09 00:00:00

receipt of this intelligence served to intensify the :
excitement which prevails in reference to this ter-
rible and bloody business.
" Holden, I have been informed, is about 5 feet
10 inches in height, has curly auburn hair, and is
rather good-looking. He is a most active man and
an excellent horseman. I learn, further, that he
'
has received a tolerably fair education, and that he
can draw- well. At the moment of his flight he had
on a gray frieze topcoat, tweed cap, and the ordi-
nary jacket and trousers worn by the constabulary.
" "Mr. Mathews's life is despaired of. He has
been attended by Drs. Bernard, Neville, and Hama.
ton. Mr. Mathews is a native of the county of Tip-
perary.
" Crimes so horrible as those which I have de-
tailed above have not been committed in the county
of Tyrone for many long years. The deceased,
Sergeant M'Clelland, was much respected. He was
a man of great prospects in the force. It was not
until the alarm of the attack upon Mr. Mathews
had generally spread through the town, and of
Holden's participation in it, that the suspicion
that M'Clolland, who had been missing for some
hours, had been unfairly deal with ; and this
having gained ground, Major Knox, Mr. Brookes,
J.P., Mr. Evans, J.P., Mr. Lyle, J.P., with many
other persons of respectability from the town, went
in search of M'Clelland, whose dead body was
found in the situation I have already described.
The constabulary exerted themselves in a most
praiseworthy manner to bring the offender in this
shocking case to justice. Mr, Brookes, J.P., de-
spatched sub-constable Farrell to Cookstown,
acting-constable Kearns to Dublin, sub-constable
Ritchie to Belfast, and sub-constable Gallaher to
Derry, in pursuit of Holden.
" To-day the local magistrates, with Mr. Coul-
son, R.M., and Mr. Manby, county inspector, from
Omagh, assembled for the purpose of inquiring into
the circumstances of the murder and attempt to
murder. Mr. E. K. Tener, coroner, also attended,
and a jury was, I understand, sworn before that
gentleman for the purpose of investigating the
facts; but, reference having been made to the tele-
gram announcing Holden's arrest in Dundalk, and
his expected arrival in Dungannon this evening,
it was deemed advisable to adjourn the inquiry
I until next day, and it was accordingly postponed
to 10 o'clock to-morrow morning, when the case
I will be fully gone into,—l presume in the presence
I of Holden.

" Crowds of people might be seen in the streets
all day discussing the circumstances of the murder,
and, as the hour at which the arrival of Holden
was expected—half-past six o'clock, p.m.—drew
near, hundreds of people proceeded to the railway
station in the hope of getting a sight of him. How-
ever, in this they were disappointed, as he did not
arrive by the train which reached Dungannon at
the hour alluded to. A strong guard of police was
drawn up at the railway station, but, as they had no
prisoner to escort, they returned at once to the
barrack. A report was then spread that Holden
would certainly arrive by the next train, at half-
past nine a.m.
" Much sympathy has been felt for the wife of
.N.l'Clelland and her two children, one of which is
very young, and was only baptised last Sunday.
week."