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Mail robbery. Edward Miles apprehended for the murder of a post boy. See Notice -9103

General Post-Office, July 11, 1793
Raguin Code: NEWS –9310

WHEREAS Edward Miles, the Person advertised in October 1791, to be concerned in the horrid Murder of the Post Boy, and the Robbery of the Mail near Warrington on the 15th September 1791, was lately apprehended, and is committed to Lancaster Castle for Trial;

And whereas some Persons, whose Names are well known, are strongly suspected of being Accomplices in, or privy to, the said Murder and Robbery.

If any one of them will surrender him or herself to Thomas Lyon, Esq. of Warrington, or any other Magistrates for the County of Lancaster, within Twenty Days from the Date hereof, such person will receive his Majesty's most gracious Pardon, be admitted an Evidence for the Crown, and be entitled to a REWARD of ONE HUNDRED POUNDS, payable on the Conviction of the said Edward Miles.

And all Persons acquainted with any Circumstances respecting the said Edward Miles, are requested, for the sake of Public Justice, to communicate the same forthwith, to Mr. Lyon, or to the Postmasters of Warrington, Liverpool, or Manchester.

ANTH. TODD, Secretary.