Pritchard, Stephen | Day 7
The Eagle Pub is close to the railway now 52, Queen Street. Then known as 4 Upper Queen Street.
Party: Liberal
Witness Testimony:
- 6832.
Tell us a few people you canvassed ? — I went from house to house.
- 6833.
Where is that ? — Close to the railway station, next door.
- 6834.
Who were these that you canvassed ? — Well, anyone.
- 6835.
Just tell us a few names ? — I cannot tell you ; there is a few names there ; there is the two Whites and Barber.
- 6836.
Tell us the names of the people whom you say you canvassed, and charged 10L. for canvassing ? — That was to pay my expenses of canvassing.
- 6837.
But tell us the names of a few that you canvassed, if you did canvass any ? — Rogers, here, in Deal, and seven others.
- 6838.
Can you tell me any name, excepting the name of the two Whites and Rogers ? — Yes.
- 6839.
Who else ? — Well, I do not know as I can, anybody else ; they promised, but I did not have no book to put it down in.
- 6840.
You kept 10L. for yourself, for your services ? — Yes.
- 6841.
Had you any canvassing book ? — No.
- 6842.
Or any list of the people you canvassed ? — No, I have never been used to such a thing.
- 6843.
(Mr. Jeune.) Did Mr. Outwin tell you to canvass ? — Yes.
- 6844.
Did he give you any list to canvass with ? — Yes, he gave me a list of 10 I was going to pay that money to.
- 6845.
Can you give the list of that 10 ? — The 10, I tell you, had been and voted.
- 6846.
(Mr. Holl.) Give us the list of the 10 people you say you were to pay. It is a very odd thing, for everybody else has found the people he was told to pay beforehand. Tell me the 10 people you had the money given to pay ? — I told him of it two or three days before. I do not know who they were now.
- 6847.
What day did you get this 30L. ? — Not till the middle of the election day, that is where I lost them.
- 6848.
The middle of the Tuesday ? — Yes.
- 6849.
You got the 30L. then, did you ? — Yes.
- 6850.
Now give us the names of the people you told Mr. Outwin you wanted to pay the money to ? — He has the list of them, I do not know who it is now.
- 6851.
Just see if you cannot make out a list, please ? — Yes.
- 6852.
We will see if you can find the eight voters or not. We will ask you to write down the list of people. Now you charge 2L. 15s. for house allowances ? — Yes, that is what it came to on the day of the election, that was not half of it. There was a committee at the house, and he told me then to let them have whatever they liked to drink.
- 6853.
Mr. Outwin told you that, did he ? — Yes, Mr. Outwin.
- 6854.
Have you any memorandum of what you did allow to anybody ? — Not a bit.
- 6855.
Have you nothing at all to show that you supplied anything to anybody ? — No, merely we slated down what anyone came in and had.
- 6856.
Have you any memorandum book in which you entered any single things supplied to anybody that day ? — No, not at all.
- 6857.
You charge an extra 2L. for treating on the day of the election ; now where did you treat people on the day of the election ? — In going round.
- 6858.
In your own house ? — No, several different houses ; North End and Walmer Road.
- 6859.
Now do be careful ; you tell us you spent 2L. in treating people, in going round ; do you mean that ? —Yes.
- 6860.
Did you keep any memorandum of it ? — No.
- 6861.
You kept no memorandum of anything ? — No.