Trigg, William | Day 14
Received £5 for himself from Mr Rose. Of the remainder £10 guineas was spent on treating and he testified to £11 being spent on 3 voters but two testified they were paid £5 and one testified to receiving £3.
Party: Liberal
Other Days The Witness Was Called On: Day 7
Witness Testimony:
- 16790.
Recalled and further examined. (Mr. Holl.) Did you canvass with Sir Julian Goldsmid ? — Yes.
- 16791.
Do you remember whether you went to the house of Mr Loyns ? — Yes.
- 16792.
Did you and Sir Julian canvass him ? — I went in with Sir Julian to the shop.
- 16793.
Did you canvass him for his vote ? — Sir Julian did.
- 16794.
Did you hear what took place ? — We went into the grocer’s shop, and Sir Julian passed through into the draper’s shop. I heard Sir Julian speaking to him, and when Sir Julian came out he told me he had promised, and I marked in the book: “Promised.”
- 16795.
You did not hear what took place ? — I heard talking, but I did not catch the words distinctly. Mr Loyns does not speak out.
- 16796.
Sir Julian Goldsmid came out and told you that Loyns had promised ? — Yes, he said he had promised, and I marked him in the book as promised.
- 16797.
Do you know whether at that time any of the children had blue colours on ? — He is a neighbour of mine, and a friend too. Am I obliged to answer it all ?
- 16798.
Yes, you must answer it ? — Yes, some of the children had blue on, and the house, before Sir Julian canvassed. I cannot say that all had blue on, because I cannot say how many children there are. He has several like myself; I have got 11.
- 16799.
After you had canvassed him, did he say anything to you about whether he could vote for Sir Julian or not ? — No, I never spoke to him after that.
- 16800.
Did he say anything to you ? — No, not afterwards; in fact we looked at one another rather shy after that.
- 16801.
Why was that ? — Because a Tory flag came out of the window.
- 16802.
Was that after you had canvassed him ? — Yes.
- 16803.
Did he say anything to you about having had an order from Mr Roberts ? — No.
- 16804.
Nothing of that kind ? — No, I never spoke to him. I have spoken to him since, but I did not speak for several weeks after that.
- 16805.
Nothing was said to you about his having had an order from Mr Roberts, and therefore he could not vote for Sir Julian Goldsmid ? — Mr Loyns never said to me anything about it, but it had been the talk about the place, and we pretty well knew it; but Mr Loyns never told me, nor Mrs Loyns.
- 16806.
He never said anything to you about it ? — No, nor Mrs Loyns.
- 16807.
Who did you hear talk about it ? — Just the people up there. Mr Rose, and people at work there, we heard talking about it.
- 16808.
Do you know whether you or anybody else said anything to anyone that came down from Mr Lewis about that ? — No, Mr Lewis did not call upon me.