Old Bailey Proceedings:
Old Bailey Proceedings: Accounts of Criminal Trials
12th April 1727
John
Rainsford
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, of St. Mary Le Bow
, was indicted for
stealing three Guineas and one Moidore, in the House of
Richard
Baker
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, on the 28th of March
last, the Property of
Richard
Smith
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; who depos'd. That the Prisoner and he were Fellow
Servants
at the Crown Tavern in Bow-Lane
, and that the Prisoner (by his own Confession) had a Key to his Trunk, by the Help of which he robbed him of the Money mention'd in the Indictment. The Prisoner having nothing to say in his Defence, but that he was intoxicated with Liquor, and knew not what he did. The Jury brought him in
guilty to the Value of 39 s.
[Transportation. See summary.]