Old Bailey Proceedings:
Old Bailey Proceedings: Accounts of Criminal Trials

12th April 1727

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John Rainsford proceedingsdefend , of St. Mary Le Bow , was indicted for stealing three Guineas and one Moidore, in the House of Richard Baker < no role > , on the 28th of March last, the Property of Richard Smith proceedingsvictim ; 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.]




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