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Mail robbery. Post boy robbed between Newcastle and Durham

General Post Office, August 9, 1770
Raguin Code: NEWS –7004

NOTICE is hereby given to all Persons who may expect any Bank Notes, or Bills of Exchange from Newcastle, that the Post Boy was robbed between that Place and Durham, upon Gateshead Common, the 7th Inst. of the Mail from thence of the 6th, containing two Bags ticketted Newcastle, and Newcastle and York, with the Letters for London, and the intermediate Places.

The Person who committed this Robbery is described to be about five Feet ten Inches high, and mounted upon a Bay Horse.

ANTHONY TODD, Secretary.