Glasgow Courier. — 1857-01-24 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

THE BROADSTONE TRAGEDY.  A circumstance has oozed out within the last day or two which, assuming the facts to be correct, will sufficientiv exp'ain the early arrest and subsequent detention of Catherine Campbell, who, by the way, has not returned to her friends in the country, but is still in Dublin under the surveillance of the porn. It is stated that a little before seven o'clocic on the night of the murder, and on the arrival of the up-train from Galway, this woman came out of the house to the great gateway at the rear, where one of the railway police was on duty, to whom she told a plausible story of the expected arrival, by the train just then come in, of a female cousin; and, pleading the neglected state of her dress—being without a bonnet or shawl—she requested the policeman to find out her expected visitor, and accompany her bark, she (Campbell) promising to keep guard until his return. The distance to the end of the platform where the third-class carriages stop is not more than 30 or 40 yards, but in the bustle and confusion consequent upon the arrival of a train, a deal of time would be lost in the search for a country cousin ; and so it turned out, for, after a fruitless inquiry, the policeman returned to his beat, and announced the result of his mission to Catherine Campbell, who then returned into the house. Subsequent inquiries were made, with a view of ascertaining whether this country cousin had any real existence, and, her place of residence being indicated by Campbell, it was found that part of her statement was correct, but the woman on being interrogated positively denied that she had any intention of going to Dublin, either on the night in question or at any other time. So goes the story; but, where all official sources of information are closed to the public, and where every prospect in connexion with the murder has been conducted with a secrecy worthy of the Spanish Inquisition, it must be received with the same amount of reserve which attached to every incident that has transpired since the commencement of the abortive investigation at the Broadstone terminus. It appeals from a statement in the Evening Mail that a successor to poor Mr. Little in the office of cashier has been at length appointed by the board of directors, at the unassuming salary of £l5O per annum, or .£5O less than the sum allotted to the deceased officer. Commenting upon this ill-judged parsimony, a writer in the journal above-named indignantly exclaims—. Can men be found in this day, respectable men, of course, willing to give £1,500 security, and to undertake a most serious trust in which thousands per week of public money is placed in their hands, and they held responsible, if they take a base crown, a light sovereign, or a forged note, to make it good out of their own purse, for the dazzling prospect of £l5O a-year? Can any terms adequately express the feelings with which such conduct on the part of railway directors must be viewed? [sit not paying a premium to encouage embezzlement? No doubt the grinding system is largely carried out in these days, but this out- herods Herod—a post, too, in which One amiable man fell a victim to his integrity, and where the murderer still stalks secure, perhaps meditating a second coup. It is stated that this reduction of £OO per year 11 10 go towards paying the niunificent donation of £2OO which the directors have voted towards the subscription now making in aid of poor Little's mother and sister— a donation so miserably small and inadequate that many respectable citizens refused to contribute to the fund until the company shall be compelled, by the unanimous voice of the public, to mend their contribution, and make it somewhat more in proportion to the loss which the bereaved family of their faithful cashier has sustained: