THEFTS OF MAILS
There were almost wholesale thefts of mails carried in the old-time coaches, which rolled along the roads in pre-railway days in England. Stern punishment was administered for offences, but there were men then, as there are to-day, who did not hesitate to risk detection. Two hundred years ago, or lopger, the roads were infested with footpads, and the conveyance of the mails, then undertaken by private contractors, was a dangerous business. The robberies of mail-bags continued when they were consigned by railways in the early nineteenth century. They occurred in 1812.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 80, 5 January 1945, Page 2
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94THEFTS OF MAILS Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 80, 5 January 1945, Page 2
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