2.--The garrison steeplechases of the 16th Lancers took place at
Stanninghall, near Spixworth.
21.--The execution of James Blomfield Rush, for the Stanfield Hall
murders, took place on the Castle Hill, Norwich, in the presence of an
enormous gathering of spectators. Thousands of persons entered the city
by road--"one woman who had been confined only three weeks travelled from
the country on foot fourteen miles during the previous night, in order to
be present"--and many thousands more were brought in by the trains.
Cheap return tickets were issued from London to Norwich, and the persons
who availed themselves of the facilities were principally members of the
"swell mob." At Attleborough station the London detectives who travelled
by the train transferred the gang to an up-train; several who evaded the
police were apprehended immediately on their arrival at Norwich and
conveyed to the Police Station, where they remained in custody until
after the execution. The culprit was hanged at noon, by Calcraft. "The
greatest silence prevailed, the solemn stillness being only broken by the
solitary shriek of a woman who had fainted in the crowd."