Deal Walmer & Sandwich Mercury
The Deal, Walmer & Sandwich Mercury reported the trial proceedings in its weekly editions listed here.
The Dover Chronicle
Text of a letter, ‘signed ” The Sandwich man,” which appeared in a London daily paper questioning why there was no examination of corruption in prior elections, or the fact that the Lliberals had bribed between elections and the Conservatives had no choice but to act in self defence.
The New York Times
The Election Commissions now sitting in England have unearthed a surprising variety of corrupt practices by which the provisions of the Ballot act were evaded or defied at the last election. Petitions for investigation have issued from a large number of boroughs. Commissions have lately been sitting in Oxford, Sandwich, Chester, Canterbury, Knaresborough, and Macclesfield.
THE SANDWICH ELECTION – CONSERVATIVE TRIUMPH
The election of a member to replace Mr. Hugessen is over, and the result is the return of Mr. Crompton Roberts by the large majority of 440 votes. The excitement which prevailed throughout the constituencyduring the polling day, was unprecedented in the electioneering annals of Deal.