Constant, Thomas John | Day 8
£3 for his vote from Mr Finnis of The Fox plus 3 amounts of 1s 8d & pint of beer for putting up flagpole, 3s for same, 1s 7d for same (Total £3 6s 3d)
Witness Type: Bribee
Witness Testimony:
- 9422.
(Mr. Jeune.) Where do you live ? — No. 8, Griffin Street.
- 9423.
What is your occupation ? — A beachman.
- 9424.
What did you have at the election ? — I cannot exactly tell you.
- 9425.
Do not you know ? — No.
- 9426.
Tell me as near as you can ? — I had 3L. for one thing.
- 9427.
Who was that from ? — Mr. Thomas Hornby Finnis, the “Fox Inn.”
- 9428.
Was that 3L. for your vote ? — I cannot say ; I expect so.
- 9429.
You think it was ? — Yes.
- 9430.
Was it given to you before the election ? — Two or three days before the election; on the Saturday morning ; the election came on the Tuesday.
- 9431.
Did he ask you to vote for either candidate ? — No ; he heard the yarn I had been spinning some weeks and weeks before the election.
- 9432.
When he gave you the money what did he say it was for ? — He did not say it was for anything.
- 9433.
You understood it was for your vote ? — Of course.
- 9434.
What else did you receive ? — 1s. 8d and a pint of beer one day.
- 9435.
What was that for ? — For putting up a flag pole.
- 9436.
Anything else ? — Yes, 3s.
- 9437.
What was that for ? — Putting up a flag pole.
- 9438.
Anything else ? — 1s. 7d. and a pint.
- 9439.
Was that for putting up a flag pole ? — Yes, that was for putting up a flag pole.
- 9440.
Anything else ? — No.
- 9441.
From neither side ? — No.
- 9442.
You are sure that is all you got. Who gave you the 1s. 8d., the 3s., and the 1s. 7d. ; who did you receive these sums from ? — I cannot say.
- 9443.
You do not remember ? — No.
- 9444.
Do you remember who gave you the beer ? — Yes.
- 9445.
Who was that ? — Mr. Finnis.
- 9446.
That was all you had at the election, was it ? — Yes, that was all.