The Sun. — 1826-06-01 (London, England)

UNION-HALL—Yesterday morning, soon after the Sitting Magistrate had taken his seat on the bench, the chief constable of the office informed him that George Gough, one of the constables of Battersea, was then in attendance with a bundle of clothes, belonging to a person who was supposed to have been murdered...— Gough was then called in, and produced the following articles of dress, which were all deeply stained with blond :—A white linen shirt, marked with the initials W. G., in blue marking thread, which appeared to have been cut off the person who wore it, as it Was rent down from top to bottom, apparently with a knife or some sharp instrument. On the collar of it was a vast quantity of clotted blood, and the wristband and half way up the right arm was covered with gore, which, together with other marks, as if some sharp instrument had been drawn across the sleeve of the shirt, led to the belief that the person to whom it belonged made violent resistance before he was divested of it. There was a pair of drab kerseymere trousers, the lower parts of which, and near the waistband, had a quantity of blood upon them. They also appeared to have been cut off the individual to whom they belonged, as they were slit on each side, from the waistband downwards. A blue and buff striped waistcoat was included in the articles found, which was sprinkled all over with blood. It had the appearance of a groom or servant's waistcoat, with arms to it, and yellow gilt buttons ; and this, as well as the before-mentioned articles, seemed to have been cut off the back of the owner. Gough having exhibited the clothes, proceeded to state that they were discovered on Monday afternoon nt the brink of the Thames, near the Red-house, at Battersea, by a man named Andrews, who acts as " Jack-o'-the-Water" at the stairs leading from the above tavern. It appeared that man was attendingsome boats near the stairs at the time in question, and the tide running down, he observed a quantity of clothes tied up in a bundle lying in the mud. Having got them on shore, he proceeded to untie the bundle, and finding the clothes above enumerated covered with blood, he lost no time in giving information of the circumstances to Gough, who now attended for the purpose of laying the facts already stated before the Magistrates, in order to have directiom in what manner to proceed.  Mr. Camml3.l., on inspecting the different articles of dress bad every appearance of having be. produced, observed, that they longed to some person who was murdered. ' The shirt, trousers, and waistcoat, all of which bail much blood upon them, appeared to have ben cut off' the back of the individual, and plainly evinced that considerable violence had been used. The worthy Magisaaddressing the reporters who attended for the newspapteen then, remarked, that the most certain method of ascertaining t rat'dbli case,ngto was to light theperpetrators of the murder, it' such had been the give publicity in the newspapers to the circumstances narrated by the constable. This mode of proceeding would, in all probability, be the means, at any rate, of bringing some personS forward who would be enabled to identify the clothes, and therefore the individual to Whom they belonged. The constable was then ordered to keep the articles above sped• fled by him, in the event of their being wanted on a future occasion ; and he also received instructions to make inquiry on each side of the river near where the clothes were picked up, whether any person wearing such a dress Was known in the neighbourhood.