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* 1898: Hoole sub-postmaster for nine years, Richard Balshaw, indicted for embezzling £37, "''a sum entrusted to him by virtue of his employment''". He had not forwarded a deposit of Mrs Carter to London although he had initialled her Post Office Savings Bank Book. (He was the son of Thomas Balshaw who opened a grocery shop in Peploe Street 40 years earlier, now Lewis's office, where the Post Office was subsequently located). Richard Balshaw was sentenced to 12 months' hard labour.