The Weekly Gazette for Middlesbrough, Stockton, Hartlepool and Cleveland District. — 1880-01-17 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

LATEST PARTICULARS.  The tragedy enacted at ftelmonit Farm on the evening of New Year's Day now gives token of furnishing for the Assize Court of the adjacent county a cause celebre. The:investigation carried on by Superintendent Thubron - and Inspector Liddle, oi , the Durham County Constabulary, has develeped a mass of testimony in connection with the murder which it is believed will place the dreadful occurrence in a different light from that in which it has hitherto been viewed by a large section of the public. Another stage in the legal investigation into the charge of murder preferred against Jane Barron Was reached on Wednesday. The period for which the unfortunate woman was remanded on the day after her arrest had then expired, and it became necessary once more to bring her before a Justice of the Peace. Accordingly, a court was held on Wednesday morning at eleven o'clock in the Superintendent's Room of the Stanhope Police Office, and V. Rippon, Esq., was the magistrate in attendance. About half-a dozen of the townspe,,ple were p.,rmitkd to witness the proceedings, which it was well known would be but formal. Sergeant Rutherford brought Barron from her cell to the superintendent's Room, and Superintendent Thubron then said: I wish to ask for a farther remand of this person, Jane Barron, who is charged with the murder of Robert Snowball by striking him with a hammer. I apply that she may , be remanded until the 21st inst., in order that she may be present at the Coroner's inquest. —Mr Rippon asked the:prisoner if she had anything to say against this course being taken, but received no eply; and after a pause he told her that she would be remanded until the day named, the 21st January. He fur. ther added •'i A he supposed she would have to be produced before the Coroner. —Supt. Thubron replied that she would certainly have to appear at the 'adjourned inquest, as she had been bound over by the Coroner.—The prisoner was then taken back to her cell. During the time occupied by the proceedings Barron did not speak a single word, and she seemed scarcely to understand the drift of what was going on round about her. In fact, she was unmistakably in a state of profound dejection' and when told to return to her cell she obeyed with a heavy, mechanical air painful to witness. She was dressed in a neatlymade gown of brownish staff, a small black and white checked shawl, and a hat trimmed with gay purple and white ribbons. The great balk of information obtainable in regard to the crime has now been gathered, compared, and sifted, and, after a residence of nine days in the neigbourhood of Belmount, Inspector Liddell on Wednesday night returned to the head-quarters of the constabulary at Durham. When this officer and Supt. Thubron left Ramahaw on Wednesday afternoon they conveyed with them to Stanhope a number of articles of dress, the property of the prisoner Barron, and which bear marks or stains believed to be blood. The hammer with which the murder was committed has been discovered, and has been taken to Stanhope, and the iron head of this deadly instrument is also marked with what is supposed to be blood. The whole of these articles will be submitted to competent examination in order that the nature of the stains may be ascertained. Remarks have been made about another hammer known to belong to the farming plant having been missing; Inspector Liddell found it on Wednesday, lying beside a spade and a rake, about 500 yards to the southward of the farm buildings. No auspicious marks are discoverable about it.  pEPPER'S