Rose, Edward Thomas | Day 3

Listed in 1881 Census as Tailor Master (1 man). Initially received a payment of £306 before the election and the balance a fortnight afterwards. Money was paid in gold at a rate of £50 a day.

Witness Type: Briber, Treater

Party: Liberal

Witness Testimony:

  • 3102.

    You paid it without any receipt being taken ? — Yes, I paid it without any receipt.

  • 3103.

    Was all the 306L. that you paid paid for these things as here represented ? — Yes.

  • 3104.

    And to the people whose names are here ? — Yes, I handed the money to the people whose names you have there.

  • 3105.

    (Mr. Jeune.) You knew, I suppose, before the election that promises of money were being made ? — Yes.

  • 3106.

    When did you first know that such promises were being made, was it before the election ? — About three or four days before the election the canvassers told me that money would be required.

  • 3107.

    Did you have any conversation with Mr. Edwards about that ? — Yes, I told him.

  • 3108.

    You told Mr. Edwards that money would be required ? — Yes.

  • 3109.

    And Mr. Edwards told you that it would be forthcoming ? — He said that nothing of that kind would be paid before the election, and whatever was done in the way of promises would be paid afterwards, and I had it about a fortnight after the election was over.

  • 3110.

    About a fortnight after the election you went to Mr. Edwards and got money ? — No, Mr. Edwards brought it to me.

  • 3111.

    How did Mr. Edwards know what to bring ? —I gave him a list of the claims two or three days after the election.

  • 3112.

    You sent a list to Mr. Edwards, and he came to you and brought the money ? — Yes, a fortnight after the election he came, and brought the money to me according to those lists.

  • 3113.

    You did not get any money from Mr. Edwards before the election upon the Monday ? — No.

  • 3114.

    Did you know that money was being given out by Mr. Edwards upon that day ? — No, I did not know anything of the kind.

  • 3115.

    I suppose you saw Sir Julian Goldsmid about from time to time ? — I saw him twice for a few minutes during the election.

  • 3116.

    Did you have any conversation with him ? — No.

  • 3117.

    Not about money at all ? — No, nothing.