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

SHOCKING AFFAIR.

Yesterday afternoon an inquest was held at the
Duke of Cumberland public-house, Henley-hill.
near Easebourne, Sussex, before Mr. R. Blagden,
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 :—lt appears that the mur-
derer, who was well-to-do in life, and occupied a
house in the village, returned from Bethlehem Hos-
pital, on Friday last, where he had been confined
for 10 weeks, and was supposed to have been per-
fectly recovered from his attack of insanity. The
murderer and his late wife were both abOut 60

years of age, and are said to have lived in perfect
harmony together. They had two children, aged
respectively 24 years and eight months, and the
husband seemed to have a great affection for the
elder child, but did not pay the other any atten-
tion. On Saturday morning the accused appeared
quite well, but in the afternoon his conduct was
observed to be rather strange, and on Sunday
morning he came down to breakfast with only his
shirt on, bringing 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 wa3 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 persons
assembled on the spot in a short time, and a search
was instituted, which ended in the discovery of the
younger 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 down to the bone from
the front. She was alsO cut on the right cheek,
down through her dress to the breastbone. There
was another cut from the wound in the throat down
to opposite the fourth rib, where the chest was
penetrated, and another cut across the chin to the
jawbone. In the kitchen, immediately in front of
the fireplace, was a pool f blood, and near it lay
two masses of the deceased's hair, coagulated with
blood, and evidently torn violently from her head.
The murder, no doubt, took place in the kitchen,
as there was no derangement of the furniture of the
apartment, so that it did not appear that any great
struggle had taken place. The husband was mean-
while nowhere to be found, and a search in all
directions proved fruitless. On Tuesday morning,
he went to a person at Elstead and asked for money,
but as information of the murder had reached that
place, he was immediately taken into custody.
Upon examination it was found that the shirt he
wore was very bloody on the sleeves, and he was
taken before Mr: A. Davis, one of the county magis-
trates at Midhurst, and remanded to the adjourned
inquest, and he now lies in Petworth gaol. It is
presumed that the murder was committed with a
razor, which, covered with blood, together with a