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Mail robbery. Post boy robbed at Ewell while picking up bye letters there

General Post Office, Wednesday, December 28, 1796
Raguin Code: NEWS –9616

THE Post-Boy, in his Way from Epsom to Kingston, with the Bags of Letters from Horsham, Ryegate, Dorking, Leatherhead and Epsom, of Tuesday the 27th Instant, for London, having stopped at the Bull's Head at Ewell to take up the Bye Letters, had the Mail cut from the Pillion, and the above-named Bags taken away.

Whoever shall apprehend and convict, or cause to be apprehended and convicted, the Person or Persons who stole the said Mail and Bags, will be intitled to a Reward of FIFTY POUNDS; or if any Accomplice will surrender himself and make Discovery, whereby the Person or Persons who stole the said Mail and Bags may be apprehended and brought to Justice, such Discoverer will be intitled to the said Reward of FIFTY POUNDS, and will also receive His Majesty's most gracious Pardon.

ANTHONY TODD, Sec.