9.--Mr. Samuel Bignold was elected Mayor, and Mr. Robert Chamberlin
appointed Sheriff of Norwich.
13.--A salmon weighing 9 lbs. was captured in the river near Trowse
Bridge, Norwich.
21.--Died at Richmond, Mr. William James Achilles Abington, M.A.,
barrister-at-law, of the Middle Temple, aged 41, the only surviving son
of Mr. William Abington, of the East India House. The deceased gentleman
was in 1845 lessee of Norwich Theatre.
28.--Madame Dulcken, pianist to the Queen, gave a grand concert at the
Assembly Rooms, Norwich.
--Mr. Isaac Jermy, Recorder of Norwich, and Mr. Jermy Jermy, his son,
were murdered at Stanfield Hall, Wymondham, by James Blomfield Rush.
Mrs. Jermy Jermy and her maid, Elizabeth Chastney, alarmed by the report
of the firearm, proceeded to the assistance of the victims, and were
severely wounded, the former in the arm and the latter in the hip, by
another shot fired by the murderer. Rush was apprehended the same night
at his house, Potash Farm, by Police-constable Mortar, of the Norwich
city police, and conveyed to Wymondham Bridewell. The first examination
of the prisoner took place on the 29th, before the Hon. and Rev. R.
Wilson, Mr. Cann, and Mr. Parker. He was afterwards taken to Stanfield
Hall, where Mrs. Jermy Jermy identified him as her assailant. Rush was
further examined at Wymondham Bridewell on the 30th. At the adjourned
hearing on December 2nd, Emily Sandford, his housekeeper, gave evidence,
and the prisoner was committed to Norwich Castle, where the third hearing
was conducted in private on December 5th. The final examinations took
place at the Castle on the 13th and 14th; on the latter date the
depositions were publicly read, and the prisoner was formally committed
to take his trial on the charge of wilful murder. On the 19th he was
taken, under writ of _habeas corpus_, to Stanfield Hall, where Chastney
gave evidence in his presence. The inquest on Mr. Jermy and Mr. Jermy
Jermy was opened by Mr. Press at the King's Head Inn, Wymondham, on
November 30th, and adjourned sittings were held on December 1st, 2nd, and
5th. On the last-named day the Coroner issued a warrant for the
detention of Emily Sandford in Wymondham Bridewell. The final sitting of
the Coroner's Court was held on December 19th, when the jury returned a
verdict of wilful murder against Rush. The funeral of Mr. Jermy and his
son took place at Wymondham church, on December 5th. (_See_ March 29th,
1849.)