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Mail robbery. Bags of letters stolen from the post office at Loughborough

General Post-Office, March 14, 1774
Raguin Code: NEWS –7403

LAST Saturday Night the Mail, containing the Bags of Letters from Derby, Ashbourne and Burton upon Trent, which should have arrived here this Morning, was stolen from the Post-Office at Loughborough whilst the Boy was putting his Horse in the Stable;

Whoever shall apprehend the Person or Persons, who stole the said Mail, will be intitled to a Reward of FIFTY POUNDS, to be paid on Conviction agreeably to an Advertisement from this Office the 27th of January, 1770, for encouraging the immediate Pursuit of Mail Robbers. Or if any Person, whether an Accomplice in the said Theft, or knowing thereof, shall make Discovery whereby the Person, who committed the same, may be apprehended and brought to Justice, such Discoverer will, upon Conviction of the Person who committed this Theft, be intitled to the said Reward of Fifty Pounds, and will also receive His Majesty's most Gracious Pardon.

ANTH. TODD, Secretary.