9.--A woman, named Mary Hudson, aged 35, escaped from Norwich City Gaol
under extraordinary circumstances. She made a hole through the wall of
the room in which she was confined, and crept through it into the street,
taking her six months old infant with her. The wall was two feet in
thickness, and she must have been employed some nights in making the
aperture. The bricks were concealed beneath her bed, and the loose
rubbish put into the pillowcase. Another bed served to conceal the hole
in the wall. In the hue and cry advertisement, offering a reward of ten
guineas for her recapture, it was stated that a Yarmouth hawker and
pedlar, named Thomas Cocks, "who frequently feeds cocks for fighting in
Norfolk and Suffolk," was suspected of having assisted the woman to
escape. There is no record of her recapture.
15.--Swaffham Coursing Meeting took place. It was described as "the most
successful meeting since the renewal of coursing here." Two hundred
persons attended the ball.
24.--The Wymondham troop of Yeomanry Cavalry presented a valuable sword
to the commanding officer, Capt. John Darell.