Norfolk Annals, Vol. 1: A Chronological Record of Remarkable Events in the Nineteeth CenturyMackie, Charles
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Norfolk Annals, Vol. 1: A Chronological Record of Remarkable Events in the Nineteeth Century
Mackie, Charles
Norfolk (England) -- History
26.—Skipper, the pedestrian, undertook to walk 60 miles in 12 successive
hours on the bowling-green at the King’s Head Inn, East Dereham. “He was
so exhausted in the last two miles that he could not accomplish his
task.”
—A meeting was held in St. Andrew’s Hall, Norwich, when an auxiliary
association to the London Society for Promoting Christianity among the
Jews was established, with the Lord Bishop as president.
27.—Died at Kirby Cane parsonage, from injuries received by the
accidental discharge of a gun, the Hon. C. J. Keppel, fifth son of the
Earl of Albemarle.
—A party of Indian jugglers gave a performance at Mr. Noverre’s
ball-room, “near Messrs. Gurney’s bank,” Norwich.
OCTOBER.
1.*—(Advt.) “Christopher Woods has been a prisoner in Norwich Castle
during four and a half years, and there must remain for life, unless
assisted with £20 to enable him to put in an answer to a bill in
Chancery. The attention of the truly Charitable is earnestly requested
in behalf of this unhappy man, his distressed wife, and four children.”
11.—Mr. Robert Baker, glover and breeches maker, of Wells-next-the-Sea,
was found murdered in Market Lane, about 200 yards from the town. His
skull was beaten in and his throat cut. The county magistrates,
assembled for other business at the Shirehall, Norwich, ordered the
printing of 3,000 handbills giving notice of the murder. These were
taken by the constables to every coach, fish cart, and other conveyance
leaving Norwich. A man named James Johnson, 29 years of age, was
apprehended on suspicion at the King’s Head Inn, Hethersett, on October
15th. The prisoner was tried at the Norfolk Assizes, held at Thetford on
March 19, 1818, when, after a trial lasting seven and a half hours, the
jury returned a verdict of guilty, and he was sentenced to death by Mr.
Justice Dallas, “his body to be delivered to the surgeons to be
anatomised” on the Saturday following. On the prisoner asking for “a
longer period than two days in which to prepare for eternity,” the judge
ordered death to be postponed until the following Monday, on which day
the execution took place on the Castle Hill, Norwich, in the presence of
5,000 spectators. “Mr. Wilson, a gentleman from London, and Mr. Austen,
a pupil of Mr. Dalrymple’s, performed the dissection and prepared the
subject for the lectures which have been daily delivered by Mr. Crosse.”
At the trial an indictment was preferred against an accomplice of the
prisoner, one William Hardiment, not in custody. A third man, Benjamin
Neal, was in custody charged with being an accessory before the fact, but
the bill was thrown out by the Grand Jury. (See March 28th, 1822.)
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