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				<div style="font-family:serif;"><i>Old Bailey Proceedings Online</i> (www.oldbaileyonline.org, version 8.0, 02 June 2023), April 1751, trial of                      Mary                      Dunslow                                                                                (t17510417-23).<hr/><h2>Mary Dunslow, Theft &gt; grand larceny, 17th April 1751. </h2>                                                                                                   <p>285. (M.)                                                       Mary                      Dunslow                                                                                                          , Spinster                  , was indicted for                                                          stealing one silver watch, value 20 s. one gold ring with one ruby, and two diamonds in the same, one pair of silver shoe buckles, a mother of pearl patch box            , the goods of                                                       Richard                      Marshal                                                                                                                                , April 12                  . *</p>               <p>Richard Marshal. The prisoner lived servant                   with me; on the 12th of this instant I had some business at Westminster, I went from home about 10 o'clock, I made haste home; then I found my room door burst open, I missed a silver watch, a small diamond ring with the rim gold, a mother of pearl patch box rim'd with silver, a pair of silver shoe buckles, the chases were iron, this was about twelve that night: my servant and son told me there was a man in bed with the maid in the kitchen, the kitchen is backwards where she used to lie; then I went to the watch-house for assistance, and Mr. Colgrave the constable of the night, and two watchmen came with me. I ordered my servant to knock at the kitchen door, and tell the prisoner we wanted some plates out of the kitchen; she opened the door and we burst in; I took the man in bed and charged the constable with him. I asked the girl some questions. When I got them to the watch-house, she would not give me any account of the things. I took her to a little place backwards in the watchhouse, then she said if I would discharge the man she would tell me where the things were. I went back with her home, she took me backwards, and in the necessary house she had wrapp'd the things mentioned up in rags, and tuck'd them in a hole under the stairs, which go up over the necessary.</p>               <p>Prisoner. I have nothing to say,                                     Guilty            . ||</p>               <p>|| See No. 206, in the last Sessions paper.</p>               <p>                                                                                                [Transportation. See summary.]                                                </p>            </div>
				
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