'like domestic maids, kennelmaids often developed highly personal relationships with their employers. Indeed, the first significant portrayal of them in the British press - the so-called “Kennelmaid Case” of 1907 in which the defendant Miss Josephine Leslie was accused of defrauding her mistress - exemplified many ofthe established tropes of disloyal and manipulative servitude... These included complacent home-keeping on the mistress’s behalf and attainment of the position on a false pretext. The case, having gone so far as to draw in the financial celebrity Pierpont Morgan (of J. P. Morgan fame), concluded by convicting Leslie of having stolen £13,000. [note: 'For example, “The Police Courts,” Times (London), 15, 17, and 20 July 1907 [sic]; “The Central Criminal Court,” Times (London), 27 July 1907; “High Court of Justice,” Times (London), 19 November 1907.']' (306)