Middlesex
to Wit
The Examination of
Ann Ware< no role >
charged with Felony by
John
Campbell< no role >
of Belton Street
, Long Acre,
Taylor
taken before me
this 23rd. day of August 1786
Who saith that between one and two o'Clock in the Morning of Monday
the 14th. day of August instant she met a person now present who calls himself
John Campbell< no role >
in Drury Lane
with whom she went to the
Apartments of a Mrs. Price a Lodger in the House of Ann [..] Dunn< no role >
Wife
of Luke Dunn< no role >
of Cross Lane
, Saint Giles's
Coachmaker
That
during the time they were in bed together she got up and stole
his Watch, Breeches, and MoneyThat she was presailed on so to do
by said Mrs: PriceThat she delivered said Watch and Breeches
to said Mrs: PriceThat Examinant and said Price went to
a Mrs: Morgan in Crown Court
to Breakfastthat said Mrs. Morgan
sent [..] this Examinant out to buy Articles for said Breakfast
That on Examinants return she found a person now present who
calls herself Ann Dunn< no role >
, sitting on the side of the bed [..] on which
said Price layThat Examinant heard said Ann Dunn< no role >
express
herself in the following Words, or Words to the same Effect "what
is to be done (addressing herself at the same time to said Mrs: Price)
with these things, meaning the said Watch and Breeches and at
the same time observed that they would not fetch more than
a Guinea That if disposed of for that Sum there would
behalf a Guinea each for themThat said Mrs: Dunn then told
this Examinant that as she had been indebted to her
three Years for Rent, amounting in the whole to Six Shillings,
thatshe should therefore deduct said Six ShillingsThat said
Dunn gave Examinant two Shillings and eight pence to
fetch her Gown out of Pawn and promised to let her a
Lodging Room and with this Examinants consent was
to detain in her hands one Shilling and Six pence out of said