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Mail robbery. Benjamin Child & William Wade, robbers of the Bristol mail, apprehended

General Post Office, London, January 5, 1722
Raguin Code: NEWS –2201

Whereas Benjamin Child and William Wade, two Persons concerned in robbing the Bristol Mails, have (by the Direction of the Postmaster-General) been apprehended for the same, and are committed to Newgate; These are therefore to give Notice to such Persons who may have been Sufferers by these Robberies, that there is also seized a considerable Number of Bills of Exchange and Notes of Hand, which are supposed to have been taken out of the said Bristol Mails in the several Robberies committed within these two Years last past, the Particulars of which may be seen in a List kept at the General Post Office for that Purpose.