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Mail robbery. Bags were lost or stolen at Knutsford

General Post Office, July 28, 1786
Raguin Code: NEWS –8605

THE Bags of Letters from hence of Monday the 24th Instant, for the following Places, were lost or stolen out of the

Boot of the Mail Coach at Knutsford, between One and Two o'Clock on Wednesday Morning, viz.

Liverpool, Ormskirk, Warrington, Wigan, and Prescot.

Whoever shall apprehend and convict, or cause to be apprehended and convicted, the Person or Persons who stole the said Bags, will be entitled to a Reward of TWO HUNDRED POUNDS; or if any Person, whether an Accomplice in the Robbery or knowing thereof, shall make Discovery, whereby one or more of the Persons concerned therein may be apprehended and brought to Justice, such Discoverer will, upon Conviction of the Party or Parties, be entitled to the same Reward of TWO HUNDRED POUNDS, and will also receive His Majesty's most gracious Pardon.

ANTHONY TODD, Sec.