Called to give evidence at the Petition Trial but not the later Corrupt Practices one. Admitted to being given £5 by Mr Olds for a committee room that was used by ‘some people who came several times’, but he could not be sure because he had been ill and laid up in bed with rheumatic fever for months. In evidence he stated the annual rent on his public house was £12 so the payment for the room amounted to nearly half of this. Conservative bills were posted in the front and back windows even though the back window looked into a yard. Claimed that customers came through the back gate to enter.