Old Bailey Proceedings:
Old Bailey Proceedings: Accounts of Criminal Trials
27th April 1715
Mary
Nash
proceedingsdefend
, of the Parish of St. Andrew Holbourn
, was indicted for
stealing 8 Guineas, the Money of
John
Cook
proceedingsvictim
, out of the Dwelling-house
of
Edward
Powell
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, on the 30th of March
last. It appear'd, That the Prisoner was a Servant to Cook
, who lodg'd in Powell's House; and that he having put 23 Guineas into a Chest of Drawers, miss'd 8 of them; whereupon suspecting the Prisoner, and taxing her with it, she own'd she had a Key to the Drawer, and had at several times She said upon her Trial that her Master gave her them; but that not being believ'd, she was found
guilty
of the Indictment.
[Death. See summary.]