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Mail robbery. General Penny Post Office in Gerrard Street, Soho, broken into. £50 reward

General Post-Office, Friday, December 9, 1796
Raguin Code: NEWS –9613

THE Westminster General Receiving Penny Post-Office, in Gerrard-Street, Soho, having been burglariously broke open last Night, and an Iron Chest, containing a considerable Sum, in Money and Bank Notes, taken away. Whoever shall apprenhend the Person or Persons concerned in the said Burglary and Robbery, will be entitled to a Reward of FIFTY POUNDS, over and above the Reward given by Act of Parliament.

If an Accomplice will surrender himself and make Discovery, whereby One or more of the Persons concerned may be apprehended and convicted, he will be intitled to the said Reward of FIFTY POUNDS, and will also receive his Majesty's most gracious Pardon.

ANTHONY TODD, Sec.

The under described Bank Notes were taken away:

£50 No. 511 - October 6th, 1796.
£10 No. 2161 - November 24th, 1796,
£5 No. 9728 - November 3d, 1796.
£5 No. 4588
£5 No. 3318
£5 No. 8189
£5 No. 4180

All the Bank Notes, except the £50, are wrote upon "J. Prior, P.P.O."