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Mail robbery. Thomas Munns apprehended

General Post-Office, July 21, 1749
Raguin Code: NEWS –4903

Whereas Thomas Munns, one of the two Foot-Pads charged with the Robbery of the Yarmouth Mail Yesterday Morning, between Ingatestone and Rumford, near a Place called Puddle's Bridge; was last Night apprehended and committed to Newgate, and the other, whose Name is unknown, is not yet taken: This is to give Notice, That a Reward of Two Hundred Pounds is hereby offered, for the taking or apprehending of the other Person concerned in the said Robbery, so that he be convicted thereof: He is described to be a young Man of about twenty five Years of Age, five Feet seven or eight Inches high, pretty well set, of a dark ruddy Complexion, a high Forehead, and had on Yesterday a blue grey Coat, and a dark or brown Wig.

N. B. This Person is said, of late, to have lived or lodged at an Alehouse, at one of the Thorndon's or Horndon's, near Brentwood in Essex.

GEORGE SHELVOCKE, Secretary.