Huxtep, Mrs. Harriett | Day 15

Produced a doctor’s certificate and testified on behalf of her retired husband Stephen Huxtep who was paralysed with a shaking palsy and couldn’t come.

Witness Type: Bribee

Party: Conservative

Witness Testimony:

  • 17681.

    (Mr. Turner.) Is your husband Stephen Huxstep ?  — Yes, he is too ill to come, he is paralysed and you could not understand what he said.

  • 17682.

    Do you know that he received 3L. for his vote ? — Yes. 

  • 17683.

    From whom ? — George Moon. 

  • 17684.

    Do you know that he received anything else ? —I know that he did not. I have here a certificate from the doctor (handing a paper). 

  • 17685.

    It is a certificate signed by a medical man stating that your husband is suffering from shaking palsey and is too feeble to attend ? — Yes, he cannot talk.