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				<div style="font-family:serif;"><i>Old Bailey Proceedings Online</i> (www.oldbaileyonline.org, version 8.0, 04 October 2023), September 1789, trial of                      MARY                      MITCHELL                                                                               (t17890909-87).<hr/><h2>MARY MITCHELL, Theft &gt; grand larceny, 9th September 1789. </h2>                                                                                                   <p>670.                                                       MARY                      MITCHELL                                                                                                          was indicted for                                                          stealing, on the 6th of August                     , one cotton gown, value 10 s.             the property of                                  George                   Lane                                                                                                            .</p>               <p>                                                DAVID                   LLOYD                                                                                        sworn.</p>               <p>I am servant to Mr. George Lane, pawnbroker                  ; on Tuesday the 6th of August in the evening, between eight and nine the prisoner in company with two young men came into my master's shop to buy a pair of buckles; they looked at some; the prisoner bought a pair, and paid for them; there were some gowns hung on a string, and the tallest went out, and the string was cut, I ran to the door, and cried stop thief; one of the gowns was gone, the prisoner and the other young man was in the shop when I went out; I found the gown at Mr. Duberry's, a pawn-broker.</p>               <p>                                                SARAH                   WARD                                                                                        sworn.</p>               <p>I live with Mr. Duberry, the pawn-broker; I produce a gown, which the prisoner pawned the 6th of August, about nine; I often saw her, and knew her; she said she gave 19 s. for the gown at Mr. Lane's.</p>               <p>PRISONER's DEFENCE.</p>               <p>I went into Mr. Lane's to buy a pair of buckles, and there were a many people in the shop; he called out stop thief; three ran out; I staid till they all came back, I knew Mr. Lane very well; he did not stop me; as I was coming out, I picked up a gown, I did not know it was his; I went to Mr. Duberry's and pawned it; my friends are all gone home.</p>               <p>                                                      GUILTY            .</p>               <p>                                                                           Transported for seven years            .</p>               <p>Tried by the second Middlesex Jury before Mr. RECORDER.</p>            </div>
				
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