12.--Mr. Fred Phillips, while performing the part of Rob Roy at Norwich
Theatre, fell from a "fictitious precipice" and sustained a compound
fracture of the bones of the leg "implicating the ankle joint." He was
removed to the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital, and "upon a consultation
among the surgeons it was deemed necessary to amputate the lower
extremity of the bone, an operation which was borne with heroic fortitude
by the poor sufferer." A performance was given at the Theatre on May 6th
for the benefit of Mr. Phillips, when Mr. George Bennett made his last
appearance on the stage, in the part of Farmer Ashfield, and Mrs.
Phillips sustained the character of Miss Blandford in "The Ladies' Club."
Mr. Phillips received a second benefit on April 20th, 1852, and on July
9th, 1853, announced that he had taken the Boar's Head Inn, Surrey
Street.
23.--The headquarters of the 11th Hussars, commanded by the Earl of
Cardigan, marched from Norwich Barracks for Nottingham, and were
succeeded on the 25th by the 2nd Dragoon Guard's (Queen's Bays).
--Samuel Woodhouse, of Plumstead, and William Pyle, of Holt, were buried
alive in a well 115 feet deep, at Docking, by the falling in of 36 feet
of soil. "Some of the inhabitants proposed to fill up the well and let
them remain in it, stating that the same thing had been done at
Tittleshall, where an inquest was held at the mouth of the well and the
body or bodies remain there to this day." Efforts were made, however, to
recover the bodies. That of Pyle was found on May 14th, and of Woodhouse
on the 15th. "Though the bodies had been buried exactly three weeks, on
their being brought to the surface and moved about blood flowed freely
from both of them."
30.--Died, aged 78, Mr. Richard Slann, of Southtown, Great Yarmouth,
historical engraver to her Majesty the Queen.