Old Bailey Proceedings:
Old Bailey Proceedings: Accounts of Criminal Trials
3rd December 1729
Francis
Spicer
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, of St. George's Hanover-Square
, was indicted (be being a Servant
and not an Apprentice) for that
he having 4 Guineas deliver'd to him to be kept and apply'd to his Matter's Use, went away with it, and converted it to his own
.
John
Lynn
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depos'd, That the Prisoner was his Servant, and that he gave him 4 Guineas to carry to a Corn-Chandler's in Picadilly; that he never paid the Money to the Corn-Chandler, but went away with it, and that on the Wednesday following he met with the Prisoner in Rag Fair.
The Prisoner acknowleg'd his Master gave him the Money, but that he got in Liquor and lost it, and that he was going to his Friends to see if he could raise it.
The Jury found him
Guilty to the Value of 4 s. 10 d.
[Transportation. See summary.]