SHOW MENUMail robbery. General Penny Post Office in Gerrard Street, Soho, broken into. £100 reward
ONE HUNDRED POUNDS REWARD.
THE General Penny Post-Office, in Gerrard-street, Soho, having been burglariously broke open on Thursday Night, the 8th inst. and an Iron Chest, containing a considerable Sum of 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 ONE HUNDRED POUNDS, payable upon conviction, 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 ONE HUNDRED POUNDS, and will also receive his Majesty's most Gracious Pardon.
ANTHONY TODD, Secretary.
The Chest has been found in the New River, near Sadler's Wells.
The under described Bank Notes were taken away:
| £50 | No. 511 | - October 6th, 1796. | |
| £10 | No. 2161 | - Nov. 24th, 1796, wrote on | J. Prior, P.P.O. |
| £5 | No. 9728 | - November 3d, 1796. | |
| £5 | No. 4588 | - Nov. 18th, 1796, ........ | J. Prior, P.P.O. |
| £5 | No. 3318 | - Oct. 11th, 1796, ........ | J. Prior, P.P.O. |
| £5 | No. 8189 | - June 23d, 1796, ......... | J. Prior, P.P.O. |
| £5 | No. 4180 | - Aug. 22d, 1796, ......... | J. Prior, P.P.O. |
All the above Bills were endorsed ... A. Jones.
