The day the notorious “Jane Cakebread” was arrested at Darlington

THE NORTHERN ECHO of August 12, 1902, contained the full report of the coronation of King Edward VII, which had been delayed six weeks by his emergency operation, but far more interesting than the pages and pages of detailed descriptions is the single paragraph story contained beneath the fascinating headline: “Stockton’s Jane Cakebread fined at Darlington.”

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