The Sun.
London, England, 1852-09-27 00:00:00


A crime was peipefritted-onTridayeVening at
Newport, which, it is feared, will terminate in the
death
of the unfortunate victim—a middle-aged
woman, named Etheridge, who was shot at by her
suitor, named Samuel Greening, formerly the guard
of a coach, and latterly the assistant of Miss Ethe-
ridge's blind father, who keeps a public-house and
large market garden, a short distance from the town
of Newport.
Greening had long paid his addresses to Miss
Etheridge, who is his cousin, aud, being a resident in
the same house, frequently gave her occasion to re-
monstrate with him on his dissipated habits, he being
a member of a band, from whose performances he fre-
quently came home drunk. She refused, it is stated,
to be married to him on the ground of these habits.
These would appear to have caused a fit of jealousy,
under the effects of which he again resorted to drink.
For two or three days last week he is stated to have
been intoxicated. A continuous quarrel betweem him-
self and Miss Etheridge was the result. On the day
previously to the shocking occurrence, he was observed
examining a pistol, which Miss Etberidge kept by
her, in consequence of the garden being sometimes
visited by plunderers, whom she (being a daring woman)
would have shot at, had any come within reach of the
house. Greening was seen trying a cap on the pistol, and
pretending to fire up the chimney. The pistol was
afterwards found to be missing from the place where it
was usually kept. On the evening in question Green-
ing, still under the effects of intoxication and
jealousy, was again quarrelling with his sweetheart,
and for a moment or two was missed from the room
where Miss Etheridge and an assistant gardener were
seated at a table. On Greening's return he walked up
and down the room again still bickering with his cou-
sin ; when suddenly he rushed up to where she was sit-
ting, presented a pistol at her, and fired. The unfortu-
nate woman's shrieks, as she fell down, awoke her father,
who had retired to rest; and when assistance was
procured, she was taken up insensible, bleeding pro-
fusely from the mouth, ear, and cheek, on the left
side of the face, the contents of the pistol, which
were supposed to be shot or hard wadding, having
entered just below the ear, fractured the left jaw,
and smashed some of the teeth, passing afterwards
through the mouth. She was at once conveyed to
bed, and Mr. Woollett, surgeon, one of the borough
magistrates, was called from Newport. Greening
still remained about the house, in a half-drunken,
sullen humour, till he was apprehended by the bo-
rough police, and lodged in the station-house cell.
The prisoner has since stated that he was not aware
the pistol was loaded, though this does not agree with
the fact of his snapping and trying it in the chimney
on the previous day. He is also stated to have told
his victim that if she did not have him, but married
another, it should be no good to her—he would pre-
vent her happiness.
The wounded woman, when consciousness was in
some measure restored, in the course of the night
frequently expressed a desire to see Greening, and
appeared to feel deeply from the consideration that
he would have to suffer in prison for what he had
done. Both her father and herself, it was thought,
were more desirous that Greening should not be
taken into custody than otherwise ; and it was not
expected that either the father or the assistant gar-
dener, the latter being an eye-witness of the whole
transaction, would further the ends of justice, if
they could avoid it, by giving evidence against the
prisoner.
On Saturday the prisoner was brought to the bar
at the police-office, before the Rev. T. Pope and Mr.
Morgan, M.P., county magistrates. Evidence was
taken to establish the charge of wilfully shooting;
but the case wes adjourned in order to obtain the
evidence of the wounded woman.

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