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TIL that 7-year-old Julie Ann Crumpling was sent to jail in 1870 for ‘stealing’ a pram to play dollies. She was Oxford Jail’s youngest prisoner, sentenced to hard labour for 7 days. The judge wanted to send her away for THREE months.

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