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Mail robbery. Post boy robbed on Milford Heath, near Goldalmin

General Post-Office, May 16, 1787
Raguin Code: NEWS –8705

THE Post Boy bringing the Mail from Haslemere to this Office, last Night, was stopt on Milford Heath, within Four Miles of Godalmin, about a Quarter before Ten o'Clock, by a tall Man on Foot, dressed in a White round Frock, who, with a naked Knife, demanded and took the Mail, and ordered the Boy to ride on to Godalmin. The Mail contained the following Bags of Letters for London, viz.

Arundel, Midhurst, Petworth, Haslemere, Steyning, and Shoreham.

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 of Highwaymen; or, if any Person, whether an Accomplice in the said 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, Sec.