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Robbery ring exposed in Hertfordshire Bedfordshire case
A list of robberies across multiple counties centers on John Walters, Blowes, and James Ward accused of highway thefts from Reading to Thetford. Walters and accomplices allegedly robbed travelers, stole money, hats, and goods including a horse, baggages, clothes, and coins. Blowes was captured near Lempstead Mills, and Ward remains in Oxford Gaol while details urge victims to come forward for corroboration.
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John Walters
Tuedington
Bedford
Bedford- Gaul
Will. Blowes
Dunstable
James “Ward
Leighton Buffard
High-Wicomb
Rook
Thame
Ailesbury
Reading
Berkshire
Hitchen
de Gouncy
Hertford
Shefford
Biggleswads
Clhiey
Biggleswade
Thetford Fair
Norfolk
Walters
Royton
London
Royston
Buntingford
Genett
Oxford
Blowes
Waters
Bedford-Gaol
Horn-Beam-Hall
Lempstead-Mulls
Hertfordshire
North Road
Gaples