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London, England, 1841-08-10 00:00:00

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" Parish of St. Margaret and St. John, Westminster.
To the Churchwardens, Overseers, Vestrymen, Go-
vernors, Directors, &c., of the parish of St. Mar-
garet and St.. John—We, the Poor-law Commis-
sioners, under the power and authority of an Act
passed in the fifth year of the reign of his late Majesty
King William IV., intituled—' An Act for the amend-
ment and better administration of the laws relating to
the poor of England and Wales,' do hereby order
and direct that any person in a state of destitution
who may apply for relief under circumstances of sudden
and urgent necessity, at any workhouse belonging to the
parishes of St. Jobn and St. Margaret, Westminster,
shall immediately on such application be relieved by ad-
mission into the workhouse, and by the supply of food,
clothes, medicine, or other articles of absolute necessity, as
tlie urgency of the case may require, until some lawful
order touching the relief of such person be made by those
duly authorised, and we do hereby order and direct the
master, matron, and porter of the said workhouse to
admit any such persons so destitute as aforesaid into
the said workhouses, and so, for each of them respect-
ively, is empowered to supply, or procure to be supplied,
such relief in food, clothes, medicine, &c., as aforesaid,
until such lawful order be. given in respect to any such
person by those duly authorised in their behalf.
Given under our hands and seal of office this 6th
day of August, 1841. .
(Signed) " J. G. SHAW LEFEVRE."
William Taversham and 'Thomas Lee, who, we be-
lieve, was formerly a comedian of some note, were this
morning placed before Mr. Jardine, charged with em.
bezzlement, under the following circumstances :
Mr. Burgess appeared for the prosecution, and Mr.
Wolfe and Mr. Pearson appeared for the prisoners.
Mr. Eliason deposed that he was the sole lessee of
Drury-lane Theatre. The prisoners were employed by
him as check and money-takers. From information he
received he made an application to the police respecting
the prisoners. Told Grunson, the person from whom he
received the information, to act upon the directions (of
Mr. Chalk.

Sergeant Chalk, of the police division, stationed
at Drury-lane Theatre, stated that he had the ma-
nagement of the police stationed at Drury-lane.
That on Thursday last saw Mr. Eliason, who told
him he had received information' which lel him to suspect
the prisoners. In consequence of this I told Grunson,
one of the check-takers, to mark a certain number of
checks, and send them down to the money-taker, and to
take the numbers, marking any money he might receive
from the money-taker. When this was done, pri-
soner gave the witness a signal, and the
witness took the prisoner Lee into custody. The.
witness here produced a number of checks found
on the prisoner, and also a purse, in which was ss. 6d.,
part of which was marked.
William Hall, 48 A division, stated that he was an
officer on duty at Drury Lane Theatre ; from instruc-
tion he received from the last witness took the pri-
soner Taversham into custody. Searched the prisoner and
found 6s. id. upon him, one of the shillings was marked.
- Grunson stated that he was a check-taker at
Drury-lane Theatre. The beginning of last week the
prisoner came to him, and said " I owe you 10s. ; here
it is." Witness answered, " You owe me nothing," and
would not receive the money. In consequence of this
witness communicated what had passed to Mr. Eliason,
and told him that he thought he was being defrauded
to a considerable amount. Mr. Eliason then directed
the witness to take any money that was offered to him,
and to " fall into the plans of the prisoner," until he re-
ceived further orders. On Thursday last he received 255.
On Monday, Lee, the money-taker, asked the wit-
ness why he did not do something for him ?
saying "we ought to have had 15s. each that night."
Witness did not know what he meant, but did not ask.
for any explanation. The prisoner Faversham directed
him how to act, which was, when checks were sold by
the prisoner Lee, the money taken below, instead of put-
ting them into a box, as was the custom, and from
which they could not be extracted without the
knowledge of the check-inspector, the witness was to
send some down again, in order to have them resold, and
the produce was to be divided between the three. The
witness then sent down five checks by Paver-
, sham, which were marked. On Thursday the witness
sent down ten more checks, and the money that was re-
ceived from them was divided between the witness and
the two prisoners. On Thursday the prisoner Lee said
he hoped the witness would be more liberal than he Was
before, having only sent five checks down. The station of
the witness was P. S. dress circle, and he received
up to Thursday 2/. Is. as his share. This was without
the share of the first five checks. On Saturday Mr. Elia-
son requested witness to mark the checks, and he
marked six. Two of these he received back again
as resold, and he then called the officer and gave
them to him. The checks produced are the same checks.
Lee was not present at any time when the money was
transferred to the witness. _

Cross-examined.—Has only been connected with
Drury-lane Theatre since its recent opening. I am
officer at the Royal Academy of Music.
Several other witnesses were then called who had
marked money, and paid for checks with it to the prisoner
Lee.

The prisoners said nothing in their defence, and they
were committed for trial.

Mr. Burgess stated to the Magistrate that Mr. Elia-
son had reason to suspect that he had been robbed to the
amount of 501. a week.

[We think it right to notice that our Reporter, not
being able to catch the name of one of the prisoners,
went into the charge-room for the purpose of ascertain-
ing it, when a police-officer, who takes the charges, in
the most insolent manner asked " What it was to him ?
—they wanted no newspapers there," although the re-
quest was made as civilly as possible. We-understand
the officer's name is Musgrove, an Inspector.]

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