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				<div style="font-family:serif;"><i>Old Bailey Proceedings Online</i> (www.oldbaileyonline.org, version 8.0, 06 December 2023), September 1789, trial of                      ROSE                      FLOOD                                                                               (t17890909-103).<hr/><h2>ROSE FLOOD, Theft &gt; grand larceny, 9th September 1789. </h2>                                                                                                   <p>686.                                                       ROSE                      FLOOD                                                                                                          was indicted for                                                          feloniously stealing, on the 14th day of August                      last, one blue linen apron, value 6 d. and one linen table-cloth, value 13 d.             the property of                                                       William                      Connell                                                                                                                              .</p>               <p>                                                WILLIAM                   CONNELL                                                                                        sworn.</p>               <p>I know the prisoner; she lived in my house; she came to lodge there on the 2d of August; on the 16th, I missed a tablecloth and other articles, out of my bed-chamber; I saw it there the day before, on the table, about three in the afternoon; I missed it the next morning; I suspected her for it; and asked her about it; and she denied it; on the Monday, I enquired in her name, at Mr. Jones's, the pawnbroker's, about three doors off; I asked him if such a thing was pawned on the Saturday, between six and seven; I saw the table-cloth; I told him to look back to the 2d of August, in his books; for I had missed several things between the 2d and that time; I missed a blue apron on the 11th; I never saw that again; the other articles are in another indictment.</p>               <p>Prisoner. Did I take it out of the dining room? - She was in there, cleaning the dining room out that day.</p>               <p>                                                WILLIAM                   JONES                                                                                        sworn.</p>               <p>I am a pawn-broker, at No. 95, Rosemary-lane; the prisoner pawned a tablecloth with me; I have it here; she pawned it in the name of Rose Flood.</p>               <p>(Mr. Connell deposes to the table-cloth.)</p>               <p>Jones. She pawned it for 13 d.</p>               <p>PRISONER's DEFENCE.</p>               <p>I bought it in Rosemary-lane.</p>               <p>                                                      GUILTY            .</p>               <p>                                                                           Transported for seven years            .</p>               <p>Tried by the second Middlesex Jury before Mr. Justice GROSE.</p>            </div>
				
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