The Express.
London, England, 1860-12-20 00:00:00

SHOCKING MURDER BY A LUNATIC IN

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Yesterday afternoon an inquest was held at the
Duke of Cumberland public- Henley-hill, near East-
bourne, Suess, before Mr. R. n, coroner for the
western division of that county, on the body of Martha
Ann Greenway, who had been murdered by her husband
under the following frightful circumstances. It appears
that the murderer, who was in good circumetances, and
occupied a house in the village, returned from Bethlehem
Hospital on Friday last, where he had been confined for
tee weeks, and woe supposed to have perfectly recovered
from his attack of insanity. The murderer and his late wife
were both about fifty years of age, and are said to have
lived in perfect harmony together. They had two children
aged respectively two years and a half, and eight months,
and the husband seemed to have a great affection
for the elder child, but did not pay the other any
attention. On Saturday morning the accused appeared
quite well, but in the afternoon his conduct was
observed to be rather strange, and on Sunday morn-
ing be came down to breakfast with only his shirt on,
bnnging his favourite child with him. In the middle of
the day the servant-girl went to church, leaving all the
family at home, and when she returned, about five o'clock,
she could hear and see nothing stirring in the house. She
therefore went to her mother's, which was close by, and
during the evening she proceeded to Greenway's house
three times, but all was silent there, and the girl concluded
that her master and mistress had gone to Farnhurst to
chapel. About nine o'clock a neighbour heard a child cry,
and a noise in a hedge adjoining Greenway's premises. A
constable was then sent for, several pence° assembled on
the spot in a short time, and a search was instituted, which
ended in the discovery of the youngest child In the ditch.
The elder child was subsequently found in bed, while at
the front door of the house a shocking scene presented
itself. Lying there was the mutilated body of Mrs. Green-
way, who appeared to have been dead for several
hours. Her throat was cut from ear to ear. She
was also cut on the right cheek, and through her
dress to the breast bone. There was another cot from the
wound in the throat down to opposite the fourth rib, where
the chest was penetrated, and another cut across the cheek
to the jaw-bone. In the kitchen, immediately in front of
the fire-place, was a pool of blood, and near it lay two
muses of the deceased's hair, ooagulakel with blood, and
evidently torn violently from her head. The murder no
doubt took place in the kitchen, but there was no derange-
ment of the furniture of the apartment, so that it did not
appear that au great struggle had taken place. The husband
was meanwhile nowhere to be found, and a search
in all directions proved fruitless. On Tuesday morning,
however, he went to a person at Elated and
asked for money, but as information of the murder had
reached that place, he was immediately given into custody.
Upon examination it was found that the shirt he wore was
very bloody on the sleeves, and lie was taken before Arnold
Davis, Fag., one of the county magistrates at Midhurat,
and remanded to the adjourned inquest ; and he now lies in
Petworth Gaol. It is presumed that the murder was com-
mitted with a reser, which, covered with blood, together
with a butcher's steel, was found near the pool of blond in
the kitchen. Only two witnesses were examined yesterday,
and the inquest was adjourned.

COLLISION AT THE FINCHIIRCH-NTREZT RAILWAY
TlENDOlll.—Yesterday an accident happened at tho Fen-
ehurch.stseet railway terminus, which was nearly at-
tended with very serious results to a number of pas-
engem The quarter-past 12 o'clock in-train from the
North London Railway had arrived in the terminus, and as
soon as the Blackwell train had come in the North Landon
engine, No. 16, driven by a man named Rolfe, started from
the' moat place where the engines for outgoing trains
stand, and proceeded across the point to attach itself to the
next train fur Camden-town, but at such a rapid rate as to
dash into the train wbkhlwaa standing still in the ter-
minus with fearful force. Many of the passengers were us
the carriages, and others were getting iu, most of whom
were braved. Those who occupied the first carriage were
more seriously hurt , sod a poor boy, a 'messenger in the
service of the Great Northern Railway Company, had one
of his leg, much lacerated. *edited aid was immediately
rends ed him. On the officials making inquiries of the
engias-driver as to thereto, of the engine entering the ter-
minus at the speed it did, he stated that he was not aware
that it was travelling so fast, and he thought the fireman
had put on the brake. Both men have been suspended by
the company.
LONDON GENERAL OMNIBUS COMPANY cLIMITED).
U —Traffic receipts for week ending Dee. 16, 11,/. 10s. 4d.

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