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Mail robbery. Daniel Hughes sought on connection with the Bristol mail robbery

General Post Office, April 24, 1782
Raguin Code: NEWS –8207

DANIEL HUGHES, standing charged on violent Suspicion of being an Accessary after the Fact to a Felony committed by George and Joseph Weston, now in Custody for robbing the Bristol Mail, on the 29th of January, 1781, near Cranford Bridge, in the county of Middlesex; Whoever will apprehend the said Daniel Hughes, or be the Means of his being apprehended, shall receive a Reward of FIFTY POUNDS, to be paid on his Conviction.

The said Daniel Hughes is by Trade a Taylor, lately lived at No. 15, Leicester-street, near Swallow-street, and from thence removed to Mrs. Taylor's, Titchfield-street; he is Brother to Luke otherwise Lucius Hughes, now under Sentence of Death in Newgate, is about Thirty Years old, Five Feet Four or Five Inches high, stout and well made, has a large Scar under One of his Jaws, wears his Hair, which is of a dark Colour, generally tied in a Queue, and lately kept a Lottery-Office near Charing cross.

ANTH. TODD, Sec.