The Sun. — 1857-09-24 (London, England)

THE MURDER IN LEIGH WOODS,  CLIFTON.  IDENTIFICATION OF THE BODY.  The efforts of the police with 8.--view to clear up the mystery in which this murder has been veiled. , have at length met with some success. The identity of the murdered woman has been established beyond doule. The murdered woman is proved to have been a Woman of about 30 years of age, whose histery for a fey years past has thus been timed. She forMerly lived as cook in the family of the Hon. Mrs. Hutchinson, at Dorset-house, Clifton, and upon the breaking up of her esteblishmens by that lady with a view to her removal to lee!and, she went to live in the service of a lady named Cave, at Downend, Gloucestershire. Subssquently she was in the service of Mrs. Weston,.of River-street, Bath, and upon the death of that lady and the breaking of her eat tblishment she went to reside as head cook in the family of the Bev. Mr. Bythesea, of Freshford, near Bath, where she lived till within a cornparatively few hours of her murder. She bad given Mr. Bythesea notice of her intention to leave for the purpose of getting married to a young man who had kept her company, and she had informed her fellow-servants that the name of that young man was Beate. Beale, who was a Bath man, had been also living iu service, and there is reason for believing that the deceased remitted him a sum of money to somewhere in the neighbourhood of Northampton, for the purpose of paying his expenses down to Bath. At about 4 o'clock on Wednesday, the 9th iTISt. (the body was discovered murdered on Friday, the 11th inst.), Beale arrived at the house of the Rev. Mr. Bythesea, where he remained for about three hours, taking tea with the servants, and asAisting the deceased to pack her boxes, which were fetched away by a porter of the Wilts and Somerset Railway. There were three • boxes—one covered with black leather with some nails, and two covered with paper of different patterns. They were all packed in some coarse wrappers and corded, and were, it is believed, all directed. One was noticed to have a card upon it addressed, "Mr. Beale, passenger to Bristol." At 7, deceased and Beale took leave of the domestics of Mr. Bythesea's establishment and left, stating Viet their ultimate intention was to go to America. At the time when they Lit, Charlotte Pugsley wore a speckled straw bonnet with groan ribbons, the curtain, which was made of the ribbon, being edged with lace. She wore a large black mantletckof Orleans, with black braid, and lined with but it was known that she had a silk mantle and some shawls hershaw ls in her boxes. She had money with her, but fellowzii -servants think that it was not more than Gi or this point nothing certain has yeth asce.rt aiineodn After leaving Mr. Bythes theyStokNe ve-entattoi the), did not proceed to the Fl esti ford but to the it station ofto the railway, whence is believed Bristol. The dreadful sequence as regards the happy young woman has been already p„blibed. That affecting the man has not yet been traced out, but it is feared that lie may have sailed (or ay any rate is about to sail) fur America. A young woman, A fellow-servant of_ deceased at Mr. Bytbesea's, and who .slept with her every night, was yesterday brought over by Inspector Noriis to inspect the deceased's clottes, which have been left in the charge of Super;ntendentHandcock. She identified nearly a'l the articles, some of them in the most indubitable manner. The frill round the dress she herself fetched home from the wash, the black unilersleeves she saw the deceasedmake and tack into her dress the day Lefore she left, she stating that she did it as she thought that her dress sleeve was too short. Her stockings the young woman bad mended for her on the Tuesday, and she recognises some peculiarities in her own work. I-Lr description of Charlotte Pugsley likewise car- I responds precisely with the deceased. Inspector Belt has eucceed.e.d in finding a laundress who worked f Charlotte Pugsley, and she also recognises the marks oil the linen