London Evening Post in London, Middlesex

Excise Notice Seeks Crackdown on Robbery Letter Authors

London excise officers publish rewards for information leading to the capture of two men who protested a demand for fifty pounds after threatening the victim with violence. Descriptions include a tall ruddy man about 30 and a slender man with long fingers and a velvet cap, plus a suspected accomplice Benjamin Salars alias Ben Allen described as a short black man with a long beard. Rewards of forty pounds each are offered upon conviction.