Old Bailey Proceedings:
Old Bailey Proceedings: Accounts of Criminal Trials
21st May 1817
314.
JOHN
HALLETT
proceedingsdefend
was indicted for
embezzlement
.
JOHN
HILLWARD
proceedingsvictim
. I am a dyer
, and live at Hackney; the prisoner was my servant
. On the 10th of May
, I sent him out to collect some bills.
Cross-examined by MR. ADOLPHUS. When he came home, he said the money had been taken from him: which was, very probably, the case.
NOT GUILTY
.
First Middlesex Jury, before Mr. Recorder.