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Mail robbery. Post boy robbed between Bodmin and Truro

General Post-Office, January 15, 1787
Raguin Code: NEWS –8702

THE Post-boy carrying the Mail from Bodmin to Truro, on Thursday Night the 11th instant, was stopped within two miles of Truro, about ten o'Clock, by a Person mounted on a stout White Horse, who presented a Pistol to the Boy, and took from him the Mail which contained the Bags of Letters from hence of Tuesday the 9th instant, for Falmouth and Truro, and the Bags with the Bye Letters for Truro, and all other Parts of Cornwall beyond Truro.

Whoever shall apprehend and convict, or cause to be apprehended and convicted, the Person who committed this Robbery will be entitled to a Reward of Two Hundred Pounds, over and above the Reward given by Act of Parliament for apprehending Highwaymen; or if any Person, whether an Accomplice in the Robbery 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 Party, be entitled to the same Reward of Two Hundred Pounds, and will also receive His Majesty's most gracious Pardon.

ANTHONY TODD, Secretary.