Mail robbery and murder. Mail robbed between Warrington and Manchester

MAIL ROBBERY and MURDER.

ON Thursday the 15th Instant, about Five o'Clock in the Morning, James Hogworth, the Post-Boy, carrying the Mail from Warrington to Manchester, was murdered about a Mile from Warrington: The Mail was found open, and the Letters in the following Bags were taken out and carried away, viz. the Bags from Chester for Manchester and Rochdale, which contained the Letters of the 10th from Ireland for those Towns and Places beyond, and the Bags from Liverpool and Warrington for Rochdale.

Two Men (supposed from their Accent to be Irishmen) were seen near the Place where the Robbery and Murder was committed immediately afterwards, and were, about Six o'Clock the same Morning, seen a Mile and a Half from Warrington on the Road to Liverpool. They were about Five Feet Five Inches high; one dressed in a strait-bodied ash-coloured Coat, the other in a striped Great Coat, with a large Cape, and each carried a small Bundle.

Whoever shall apprehend and convict, or cause to be apprehended and convicted, the Person or Persons who committed this Robbery and Murder, 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 or Persons, whether an Accomplice in the Robbery and Murder, (except the Person or Persons who actually committed the Murder) shall make Discovery, whereby the Person or Persons who committed the same, 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.

ANTH. TODD, Sec.