Alston Herald, and East Cumberland Advertiser. — 1875-05-08 (Alston, Cumbria, England)

THE BRANDON TRAGEDY.  On Saturday, the young man, George Herbert Plummer, was again charged at the Durham County Police Court, with the wilful murder of his sweet. heart, Sarah Foster, on the 26th April, at Brandon Colliery. The magistrates on the beneh were—Rev A. D. Shaft° (chairman), Rev B. Barett, Rev Wm. Greenwell, and Mr A. L. Maynard. A. large crowd assembled outside long before the court doors were opened, in the expeotation of obtaining a glimpse of the prisoner when taken into oourt. The prisoner, however, was taken into the court room by way of the Assize Courts. The court room was filled, and a large crowd remained outside. Amongst those in the court room were the father and mother of both the prisoner and the murdered girl, together with brothers and sisters, and a number of other relatives. On the prisoner being charged, Superintendent Dunn said he was not prepared to go on with the case that morning, and asked for a remand. Two or three days next week would be taken no with the inquest, and he required a little more time. He only intended to call one wit ness.—The Chairman said it was utterly impossible for a case of that sort to be got up except step by etep. They would therefore take the evidence of the witness, and then remand the prisoner.—Wm. Boyd, surgeon, Durham, sworn, said: On Wednesday afternoon I made a post-mortem examination of the body ot a female, pointed out to me as being that of Sarah Forster, along with Dr. Stewart of Brandon. I found a wound extending from her mouth backwards, immediately beneath the jaw towards the spine, having torn all the blood vessels and nerves i; that direction. I found another wound over the breast bone, between the third and fourth cartilages of the ribs, extending from there through the pericardium of the left auricle of the heart to the spine, which is struck. The cause of death was the wounds, which had been inflioted by pistol shots.—Mr W. Brignall, sen., solicitor, who appeared on behalf of the friends of the prisoner, said he could not resist the remand. He suggested that the hearing of the case could be taken on Friday. They would have the whole day, and if necessary mild adjourn till the Saturday.— The chairman (to prisoner): You are remanded on a charge of wilful murder till Friday next, at ten o'clook.—The prisoner's father, Briah Harding, was then bound over for his wife and himself in two £25 sureties to appear next Friday.  Sir Garnet Wolseley has been received with great enthusiasm at Natal.  During April 13,241 emigrants left Liverpool, being a decrease of 2535 over April last year. About 15,000 persons attended the funeral of Alderman litansome at Ipswich on Monday. Mr Rupert Kottle has resigned the presidency of the Arbitration Board of Wolverhampton Building Trades—a position which he has held for ten years. A boy eleven years of age has died in the Mort!. ern Hospital, Liverpool, from the effects.of intoxication.  At Dewsbury a collier named Headley has been sentenced to four months' imprisonment for being a leader in assaulting and intimidating non-unionists.  Captain Boyton went on Tuesday to the mouth of the Mersey and exhibited his life-saving dress, in presence of a large number of spectators who attended in steamers. The foundation stone of Congregational Sunday Schools, costing £lO,OOO, erected by Sir Titus Salt, at Saltaire, was laid on Saturday. At Christie's, London, on Saturday, "A Landsoape, with a party of Rustic on a Road" (40 in. by 50 in.), by T. Geinsborough, RA., was sold at 3300 guineas.  The Unita Cattolica, a leading Vatican organ, has an article full of bitter comment upon the installation of the Prince of Wales as Grand Master of the Freemasons. It identifies Anglia& Protestantism with Masonry, and says the two mast stand or' fall together.  George Cane (20) stands charged at Southwark Puline Court with a large number of ingenious frauds. He called at houses with a small parcel (containing a brink) and requested payment, generally 2s. 6d., saying it came by train.  A farmer named Baldwin, of Cranbrook, in Kent, has disoovered coal ou his farm whilst boring for water. The vein was struck at a depth of 60 feet, and a little lower a second and thicker vein was reached. The coal is described as of excellent quality.  A monument to the late Rev. Joseph Hughes, one of the founders of the British and Foreign Bible Society and of the Religious Tract Society, was uncovered in Bmihill-Fields Cemetery, London, on Monday, in presence of Lord Shaftesbury and a large number of ministers.