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1740-1749

-- 4 9 0 3 NEWS (General Post-Office, July 21, 1749)

Whereas Thomas Munns, one of the two Foot-Pads charged with the Robbery of the Yannouth 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 Thomdon's or Homdon's, near
Brentwood in Essex.
GEORGE SHELVOC:KE, Secretary.

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