The Sun. — 1862-07-21 (London, England)

THE MYSTERIOUS MURDER IN GLASGOW.  (From the Aorth British Daily Mail.)  As we anticipated in our yesterday's impression, the bloody clothes have been fully identified as belonging to the prisoner, Mrs. M'Lachlan, and that she is known to have worn them on the night of the murder there is also no doubt. The identification is complete, nay superabundant, for several persons can speak positively to the fact of their being hers, and used by her on the eventful night. They consist, as our readers are aware, of a brown merino dress, and two flannel petticoats, all of which are saturated with blood. One of these petticoats has been made out of a blanket, and therefore is easily identified ; and Sarah Adamson, a little girl who was servant to the prisoner for some time, can per ceive some of her own sewing on one of the garments. The trimming on the dress is likewise positively spoken to. The manner in which the discovery of the gory clothing was made reflects great praise on the police. The tact having been clearly established that Mrs. M'Lachlan visited Hamilton last week, and left behind her an empty box, in which was clothing belonging to the deceased Jessie Macpherson, strongly impressed the minds of the police with the idea that she must also have left the clothing somewhere. Accordingly, simultaneously with Capt. Wean setting about a diligent search for the clothing in Hamilton, Edinburgh, and elsewhere, Captain George Mackay, chief constable of the Lanarkshire Police, instructed his men—and also took a forward part in it himself—to search systematically and minutely the whole town of Hamilton and surrounding districts for several miles, particular injunctions having been laid upon the constables to spare neither time nor trouble in the investigation, and to pass over no ditch, nor "burn," without searching to their bottom, and to leave no hedge, nor barn, nor out-house, nor, in fact, any nook or cranny in the whole district unexplored, until they should find some of the missing clothing, either of that which belonged to the deceased or to the prisoner M'Lachlan—for it was not doubted but she  had done away in some manner with a portion of her clothing. The town of Hamilton was first scoured thoroughly, and then the constables spread themselves over the adjoining locality. The result of this search, which had been conducted for about a week, was the discovery of the dress and petticoats above mentioned. This was effected by Donald Stewart, one of the first-class county constables of the Hamilton district, between five and six o'clock yesterday afternoon, in two grass fields on the estate of Eddlewood, belonging to Mr. Allan, draper, St. Paul's-churchyard, London. The gown and petticoat were found in a field known by the name of the Quarry Park, and the other petticoat was discovered in an adjoining field called Tommy Linn. They had been torn into shreds, there being no fewer than thirty-eight pieces of them in all. Eddlewood-road runs alongside of both fields, which are only divided from it by a low hedge, over which the clothes must have been thrown. There is evidence, also, to show that the prisoner was on the Eddlewood Road on the Monday or Tuesday of last week, and near where the clothes were found, so that this part of the case will bear most heavily upon her. The clothes were retained by the constable who found them until to-day, when he, along with Capt. M'Kay, brought them to Glasgow, an& delivered them up to the Sheriff's Fiscals in the usual and legal way. The blood upon them is now, of course, being analysed to see whether it is human blood, of which there is no doubt. The prisoner has not yet been fully committed for trial, although due sanction for that coarse has been given by the Crown authorities, so that she may yet be again examined in regard to the above clothing. This, however, is not likely to be the case ; and she will in the usual way be fully committed for trial at the ensuing Circuit, which opens here on the 15th September, on Monday next, being the eighth day of her incarceration. The prisoner has never refused food, but we understand she takes a due quantity ; and as for the intention being entertained of forcing food into her stomach, that, we are assured, is a pure invention.