North & South Shields Gazette & Daily Telegraph, 12-12-1866:
THE EMBEZZLEMENT BY A GAS COLLECTOR. - In
this case, which was before the South Shields
County Petty Sessions yesterday, the magistrates
after hearing the evidence committed the collec-
tor, John Reece Grewcock, for trial.
Newcastle Guardian & Tyne Mercury, 15-12-1866:
EMBEZZLEMENT BY A JARROW GAS COLLECTOR. - A
painful case of embezzlement has occurred at Jarrow. A
young man named John Reece Grewcock, about twenty-
four years of age, and married, in the employment of the
South Shields and Jarrow Gas Company as a money col-
lector, failing to produce the sum of £5, the amount of a
bill for which he had settled, suspicions were aroused that
he had been tampering with the accounts. Accordingly the
books were examined, Grewcock meanwhile absconding,
and defalcations to somewhere near £20 were discovered.
A warrant was then issued, and Grewcock apprehended in a
house in the Scotswood-road, Newcastle. He is now on re-
mand.
Newcastle Guardian & Tyne Mercury, 5-1-1867:
[under "Durham Sessions" - on Wednesday, before T.C. Thompson and S. Smithson]
EMBEZZLEMENT AT SOUTH SHIELDS
JOHN RUSE GREWCOCK was indicted for embezzling
£5 10s. and other monies, the property of the South Shields
Gas Company, at Jarrow, on 10th October. Mr Mey-
nell was for the prosecution, and Mr Blackwell for the de-
fendant. The case was expected to have occupied a long
time in hearing, but ultimately a sort of compromise was
effected by the prisoner pleading guilty. He was sentenced
to six weeks' imprisonment, with hard labour.
The Court adjourned.
