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Amongst those up before the Mayor Joseph Bithnell Hallmark and a bench of magistrates at the Preston Police Court in mid May 1879 was Thomas Threlfall, aged 12. He was charged with stealing forty newspapers the property of William Dobson, stationer of Fishergate.