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Mail robbery. West mail robbed near Turnham Green

General-Post-Office, London, February 8, 1744
Raguin Code: NEWS –4402

WHEREAS the Post-Boy, going out with the West-Mail from this Office, was this Morning, between Five and Six o'Clock, attack'd on the Highway at the Staling Place, on the other Side of Turnham-Green, by a single Highwayman, who took the said Post-Boy into a Field, adjoining to the Road, and open'd the Mail, and carried off the Exeter and Plymouth Bags: The Person who committed this Robbery is a middle-siz'd Man, and had on a blue Great Coat, with his Hat tied over his Head; and he rode on a Sorrel Horse with a white Face, about fourteen Hands high, and made off for Acton, the Oxford Road.

This therefore is to give Notice, That whoever shall apprehend and convict, or cause to be apprehended and convicted, the Person who committed this Robbery, will be intitled to a Reward of TWO HUNDRED POUNDS, over and above the Reward given by Act of Parliament for apprehending of Highwaymen: Or if any Person or Persons, whether Accomplice in the said Robbery, or knowing thereof, shall make a Discovery, whereby the Person who committed the same may be apprehended and brought to Justice, such Discoverer or Discoverers will, upon Conviction of the Party, be entitled to the same Reward of TWO HUNDRED POUNDS, and also have his Majesty's most gracious Pardon.

GEO. SHELVOCKE, Secretary.