Testimonies

Adams, Jack | Day 8

Witness Type: Both Sides, Bribee

Party: Conservative

Witness Testimony:

• 9512.

  What did he say about the 1L. ? — I was standing at my door with my arm in a sling ; Mr. Warner came along, and said, ”What is the matter with your arm ? ” I said, ”I run a bit of glass in my hand.” He said, “That is a bad job.” He was standing in the passage talking about it, and as he went out he put his hand in his pocket and gave me 1L. ; nothing more passed.

• 9513.

  Nothing more passed about that ? — No.

• 9514.

  When Mr. Finnis came he gave you 2L. ? — Yes.

• 9515.

  Did he tell you that Sir Julian had told him to give you that ? — No.

• 9516.

  (Mr. Jeune.) Did Mr. Warner say that the 1L. was for refreshments ? — I judged it was for refreshments by him giving it to me.

• 9517.

  Did not he ask you how you were, or what you wanted, or anything of that kind ? — He asked me what was the matter with me, and I told him, so he put his hand in his pocket before he went and gave me 1L.

• 9518.

  Did anything more pass about that between you at the time ? — No.

• 9519.

  When did the beef and other things come ? — That was a week before the election.

• 9520.

  Did Mr. Warner bring them to you ? — No ; I think a boy brought them.

• 9521.

  Do you know his name ? — No, I was not in there at the time.

• 9522.

  You found them when you came in ? — Yes.

• 9523.

  How did you know from whom they came ? — Because he told me he was going to send something for me, so I supposed that was where it come from.

• 9524.

  Mr. Warner told you that he was going to send you some refreshments ? — Yes.

• 9525.

  You said Mr. Warner said something about Sir Julian sending it ? — When he first came I was indoors, and he came to the door and said, ”Does Jack Adams live here.” “Yes,” I said. He said, “Sir ” Julian has told me you have been very ill.” — I said, “I have been ill.” — ” And he has sent me to see what I ” can do for you,” he said, “well, I will send you something in the evening,” and when I did come home it is as I told you before.

• 9526.

  Is that the same day that he gave you the 1L. ? — No.

• 9527.

  That was another day ? — Another day ; the day before the election I received the 1L.

• 9528.

  Then Mr. Warner came again to your house ? — Yes.

• 9529.

  He saw you standing at the door, and gave you 1L. ? — As I was standing at the door.

• 9530.

  (Mr. Holl.) I think you said that Mr. Warner told you that Sir Julian had told him that you had been very ill, and that he would send you some refreshments ; is that so ? — Yes.

• 9531.

  Then on the same evening you went home and found some beef, mutton, wine, and arrowroot left at your House ? — Yes.

• 9532.

  Mr. Warner told you he would send that ? — Yes.

• 9533.

  How long was it after that that Mr. Warner called and saw you with your arm in a sling ? — That was one evening.

• 9534.

  How many days after was it ? — I do not know whether it was on Thursday or Friday that I had the beef.

• 9535.

  It was some two or three days after at any rate ? — Yes, on the Monday, as the election came on the Tuesday.

• 9536.

  Mr. Warner was going by, he saw you with your arm in a sling, and he asked you what was the matter ? — And I told him.

• 9537.

  You said you had a piece of glass run in your hand ? — Yes.

• 9538.

  He put his hand into his pocket and gave you a sovereign ? — Yes.

• 9539.

  Is that all that occurred at that time ? — Yes.

• 9540.

  Subsequently Mr. Finnis gave you 2L. ? — Yes, on the election morning. He said I had had 1L. off Mr. Warner, and he had to give me 2L. more.

• 9541.

  He gave you 2L, more ? — Yes.