Mr Gypson the aeronaut, ascended from Spalding, in Lincolnshire, on the 14th inst., in his balloon, and had a very narrow escape of being swept into the ocean. He descended in an arm of the sea, close to Holbeach marshes, where he was fortunately rescued by a gentleman named Rowling, residing in the neighbourhood, having been dragged through the water for thirty or forty yards.
Bell's Life in London and Sporting Chronicle (London, England), Sunday, October 24, 1841
At Spalding,Lincolnshire, a little girl, age thirteen years, has been sentenced to fourteen days imprisonment and four years in a reformatory for plucking a flower from a geranium plant inthe garden attached to some almshouses!
John Bull (London, England), Saturday, July 10, 1875
