QSR1843/4/5/13

Depositions and examination - Mary Nicholls, charged with stealing one white muslin dress, one cap, one muslin collar and two diaper towels from Henry Richard Checkley

28 August 1843

From: 1843 To: 1843

Elizabeth Checkley - she was staying with her brother who lives in a farm of her father's at Marston. On 15 August they had been washing and she went to look for her clothes which were left on the hedge to dry. They were gone. She said as much to Nicholls, who said she hoped she would not think she had them. She said to Nicholls she supposed someone had stolen them to wear at Marston feast. Nicholls then said she would look about for a white dress. From information received she suspected Nicholls and applied to the policeman. She saw him search Nicholls' box. He found the cap They went to her father's and met her mother at the door. The policeman said they had come for the dress and other things her daughter had sent down. The mother took them upstairs and showed them where they were. Ann Nicholls- she is the mother of the prisoner. On Tuesday August 22 her daughter called on her and said she was going to Hilton for her mistress. Her daughter had a bundle which she left in a back room. The next day she opened the bundle and found a white dress. The next day, Thursday, Thomas Keep brought to her house a box from her daughter containing her own linen - a collar and two towels, which are now produced. Jane Checkley - she believes the two towels now produced are the ones she lost on 18 August. and are the property of her father-in-law Henry Richard Checkley. She marked them herself but the marks have been picked out. Charles Flint, police constable - on 26 August he had information of the robbery. On asking Nicholls whether she had heard of some things being lost from the family she prevaricated but denied knowing anything about them. He searched her box and found the cap. He then went to her father's and found the other articles. Mary Nicholls - nothing to say.

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Nicholls, Mary,
Checkley, Henry Richard,
Checkley, Elizabeth,
Flint, Charles,
Nicholls, Ann,
Checkley, Jane

LIDLINGTON, MARSTON MORETAINE, stealing, clothing