FRAUDS IN WORKHOUSES.
OFFICIALS BENT TO GAOL. mass association, LONDON, 10th May. The tiisl h-3 concluded of the casa aridng out of tho rccont West Ham Workhouse scandnls. The prisoners wcro : — Lewis Hill, Gtcward of the Infirmary ; Alfred Riches, infirmary storekeeper; Edward Itodgkin, mat-ter of iho vrorklsoino ; .loliu Daird, engineer at tho workhouae; and Ric'iaid Tarr.mt, George (Jninip, John Anderson, William Skinner, Frank Hill, and John AVattG, mombci'3 of tho Board" of Guardir.ni. The charges against tho piisoncr3 were of conspiring with Ilarry Jilijah Bond, a coal contractor, nov,- undergoing impii3onment, to obtain money by f also pretcnccc. Tarrant wa3 found not guilty end discharged. Tho others weio convicted. Bond's process was to charge for value not supplicil, cn;l to pay part of tho plunder to Iho prisoners for their connivance. Crump and Lcwir. Hill wcro each sentenced to two ycrr3' impTitfonmont with 1.-n:d libcuv, permaneally disqualified Troni holding public offico, and declared ir.cr.pnblo of voting for a poiiod of seven years. Hodgkin wat; tcntonccd to eighteen montli3' imprisonment; Anderson and bkinncr to tifteeu monlha' ; Riches and Watts to nine months' ; Frank Hill and Baird to six months' — all with civic di3- | qualification.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXIII, Issue 118, 20 May 1907, Page 7
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193FRAUDS IN WORKHOUSES. Evening Post, Volume LXXIII, Issue 118, 20 May 1907, Page 7
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