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Mail robbery. Spence Broughton and John Oxley indicted in Cambridge for mail robbery

General Post-Office, April 14, 1792
Raguin Code: NEWS –9203

AT the Lent Assizes, 1792, for the County of Cambridge, an Indictment was found by the Grand Jury against Spence Broughton and John Oxley for robbing the Cambridge Mail, near Bourn Bridge, on the 9th of June last; and at the same Assizes for the County of York an Indictment was likewise found against them for robbing the Mail between Sheffield and Rotheram on the 29th of January, 1791; on which last Indictment Broughton was tried and convicted.

Oxley escaped out of Clerkenwell Bridewell on the 31st of October last.

He is about Twenty-five Years of Age, Five Feet Ten Inches high, pale faced, rather pitted with the Small Pox, and his

Nose turned a little to the Right.

Whoever shall secure the said John Oxley, and lodge him in any of the Gaols of this Kingdom, within Three Months from the Date hereof, will be entitled to a Reward of ONE HUNDRED POUNDS, to be paid immediately on his Commitment.

ANTH. TODD, Secretary.