Ward, Mrs. Caroline | Day 10
Widow Born 1829 Mother to Matilda & Minnie. Supplied her regular customers – around 200 people altogether – on Mr Coleman’s orders. And a lunch for 15 people from Ramsgate.
Witness Type: Treater
Party: Liberal
Witness Testimony:
- 11791.
(Mr. Turner.) I believe you keep the “King’s Arms,” at Sandwich ? — Yes.
- 11792.
Did you have 5L. for a room ? — No.
- 11793.
Nothing ? — Not a penny, and I have not yet received all my account.
- 11794.
Did you supply any refreshments ? — Yes.
- 11795.
Upon whose order ? — Mr. Coleman’s.
- 11796.
What was the amount you supplied ? — 5L. I received the first week before the election, and now the account due is 10L. 2s. 5d,
- 11797.
How long were those two accounts running ; how many days ? — It began two or three days before the election.
- 11798.
And to whom did you supply the refreshments ? — To customers.
- 11799.
What had Mr. Coleman to do with it ? —He ordered it .
- 11800.
Did the customers say that they had orders from Mr. Coleman to come ? — Yes.
- 11801.
They used his name ? — Yes.
- 11802.
Five pounds has been paid to you, and 10L. you have sent in an account for ? — Yes. .
- 11803.
Did you supply to anybody but to persons who said that Mr. Coleman had sent them ? — No.
- 11804.
(Mr. Jeune.) Where they your regular customers ? — Yes, all people of the neighbourhood.
- 11805.
Did you know most of them ? — Yes, I think so.
- 11806.
How many do you think you supplied in that way ? — I could not say.
- 11807.
About ? — Really, I could not say.
- 11808.
A couple of hundred ? — That I cannot say; I supplied a luncheon out of it.
- 11809.
When was that ? — Upon the election day.
- 11810.
Who was at the luncheon ? — That I cannot say.
- 11811.
Where there so many that you do not remember ? — No, but I was engaged in the bar, and I could not say how many went up. It was ordered for 15.
- 11812.
Can you tell me the names of any of the 15 ? — Indeed I cannot, but I believe they were Ramsgate people ; I was told so.
- 11813.
How much was that luncheon ? — I think 2L. 15s.
- 11814.
You see there is a good lot left for refreshments at other times; I suppose refreshments really meant beer if one speaks in plain English ? — Beer, spirits, cigars, tobacco, and biscuits.
- 11815.
I daresay I shall not be far wrong if I say you supplied 100 or 150 people one way or another ? — I should think more than that.
- 11816.
A couple of hundred ? — I should think so ; I know I was at work from morning till night.
- 11817.
Practically anybody who came in, I suppose, got what they wanted ? — If they came in and said Mr. Coleman had sent them I supplied them.