SHOW MENUStolen bill of exchange. Description of the suspect
Whereas a Bill of Exchange, supposed to be feloniously taken out of the Mail dispatched from this Office for Ireland on Friday the 3d Instant, (which Mail was forcibly taken from one of the Sailors belonging to the Packet Wherry as he was carrying it from the said Wherry to the Post Office in Dublin, on Wednesday the 8th Instant,) hath been offered to be negotiated in London, by four Persons answering the following Descriptions:
One of them dressed in a brick-dust coloured Great Coat with a New-Market Cape, and a black Coat under it, mixt coloured Stockings, and a plain Hat, is about 5 Feet 10 Inches high, wear.s his own Hair, of a dark brown Colour tied behind, thin Face, fresh Complexion, and between 30 and 40 Years of Age. Another of them had on a reddish mixt coloured Coat, green Breeches, mottled silk Stockings, his Hair of a lightish brown Colour, tied behind, about 5 Feet 8 Inches high, and between 30 and 40 Years of Age. Another of them had on a light coloured Great Coat, a dark brown Under Coat, a Pair of dirty Leather Breeches, dark mixt coloured Stockings, a light coloured Wig; a plain Hat flapped before, and a red Handkerchief about his Neck, is about 5 Feet 7 or 8 Inches high, fresh Complexion, and seemed rather bloated with Liquor, between 30 and 40 Years of Age. And the other dressed in a grey coloured Great Coat, a dark coloured second-mourning Coat, with black Buttons and Button-holes, dirty Leather Breeches, dark grey coloured Stockings, and a dark brown frizzled Wig; is about 5 Feet 4 or 5 Inches high, thick-set, and of a pale Complexion.Notice thereof is hereby given, in Precaution to Merchants and Others, to prevent the Negociation of any of the Bills feloniously taken out of the said Mail; and also further Notice, That whoever shall apprehend and convict, or cause to be apprehended and convicted, any of the Persons concerned in forcibly and feloniously taking the said Mail, shall be entitled to a Reward of FIFTY POUNDS for each Person so apprehended and convicted; or if any Person, whether an Accomplice in the said Robbery, or knowing thereof, shall make Discovery, whereby the Persons who committed the same may be apprehended and brought to Justice, such Discoverer will, upon Conviction of the Persons who committed the Robbery, be intitled to the like Reward, and also receive His Majesty's most gracious Pardon.
ANTH. TODD, Secretary.
