Matthews, Thomas | Day 10
Paid £5 for assisting Mr Ramell with carpentry work, making and repairing stretchers ‘for canvass and boards, and other jobs beside’.
Witness Type: Bribee
Party: Liberal
Witness Testimony:
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(Mr. Jeune.) Where do you live ? — 11, St. George’s Place.
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What is your occupation ? — A carpenter.
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What did you get at the election ? —5L. ; for helping Mr. Ramell in the carpentry work.
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Did Mr. Ramell give it you ? — Yes.
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Did he engage you to help him ? — He did.
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Did he engage you to do work for him for that exact sum ? — I made some stretchers, and repaired stretchers for canvass, and boards, and other jobs beside. I continually kept working for him.
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Did he engage you for 5L. or did you send in your bill ? — No bill at all, he came and paid me the money.
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Before you did the work, did he arrange with you what you were to have ? — Yes.
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He came and said, “I will give you 5L. to do “what” ? — If I helped him, and my vote.
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That is all you got ? — Yes, that is all.