<P> In the original version of the tale , Todd is a barber who dispatches his victims by pulling a lever as they sit in his barber chair . His victims fall backward down a revolving trapdoor into the basement of his shop , generally causing them to break their necks or skulls . In case they are alive , Todd goes to the basement and `` polishes them off '' ( slitting their throats with his straight razor ) . In some adaptations , the murdering process is reversed , with Todd slitting his customers ' throats before dispatching them into the basement through the revolving trapdoor . After Todd has robbed his dead victims of their goods , Mrs. Lovett , his partner in crime ( in some later versions , his friend and / or lover ) , assists him in disposing of the bodies by baking their flesh into meat pies and selling them to the unsuspecting customers of her pie shop . Todd 's barber shop is situated at 186 Fleet Street , London , next to St. Dunstan 's church , and is connected to Mrs. Lovett 's pie shop in nearby Bell Yard by means of an underground passage . In most versions of the story , he and Mrs. Lovett hire an unwitting orphan boy , Tobias Ragg , to serve the pies to customers . </P>
<P> In the original version of the tale , Todd is a barber who dispatches his victims by pulling a lever as they sit in his barber chair . His victims fall backward down a revolving trapdoor into the basement of his shop , generally causing them to break their necks or skulls . In case they are alive , Todd goes to the basement and `` polishes them off '' ( slitting their throats with his straight razor ) . In some adaptations , the murdering process is reversed , with Todd slitting his customers ' throats before dispatching them into the basement through the revolving trapdoor . After Todd has robbed his dead victims of their goods , Mrs. Lovett , his partner in crime ( in some later versions , his friend and / or lover ) , assists him in disposing of the bodies by baking their flesh into meat pies and selling them to the unsuspecting customers of her pie shop . Todd 's barber shop is situated at 186 Fleet Street , London , next to St. Dunstan 's church , and is connected to Mrs. Lovett 's pie shop in nearby Bell Yard by means of an underground passage . In most versions of the story , he and Mrs. Lovett hire an unwitting orphan boy , Tobias Ragg , to serve the pies to customers . </P>
surname of woman who owns pie shop in sweeny todd
surname of woman who owns pie shop in sweeny todd
Lovett
Lovett