Mail robbery. Sarah Liddiard escaped from jail

Whereas Sarah Liddiard, the Wife of William Liddiard, lately a Letter Carrier in the Post-Office at Hungerford, was convicted, at the Assizes held in Salisbury the 9th Instant, of feloniously stealing Bills and Notes, which were taken out of a Letter at Hungerford; and at the same Assizes an Indictment was preferred and found against Mary Richardson, the Wife of Thomas Richardson, of Hungerford, Painter, Mother of the said Sarah Liddiard, as an Accessary after the Fact to the said Felony so committed by her.

The said Mary Richardson was committed to Devizes Bridewell on the said Charge in November last, but escaped from thence on the 24th of December.

Whoever shall apprehend the said Mary Richardson, and secure her in any of His Majesty's Gaols of this Kingdom shall be entitled to a Reward of FIFTY POUNDS, to be paid on her Conviction.

ANTHONY TODD, Sec.