Ballard, Edward | Day 9
Claimed to only have received £4 5s 6d despite giving out refreshments totalling £12 2s 2d for which he put in a bill but hadn’t been paid in full.
Witness Type: Briber, Publican, Beerhouse Keeper, Treater
Party: Liberal
Witness Testimony:
- 10503.
(Mr, Holl) Did Mr. Coleman take a room at your house ? — No, he never took a room particular.
- 10504.
Did not Coleman take a room at your house ? —No.
- 10505.
Did he engage your house ? — He engaged it for refreshments, and he asked me if I would assist him a little in canvassing.
- 10506.
When he engaged it for refreshments, did not he ask you to use your influence with the people who came to your house ? — Yes.
- 10507.
And he said he would pay you 4L. for that ? — No, he never said nothing about it ; I did not know I was to have 4L. till a few weeks back.
- 10508.
He said when he engaged your house that he would pay you something ? — He never promised main that way, only refreshments.
- 10509.
Is it not correct, as he told us, that he asked you to keep back from taking anything from the other side until he had arranged with you ? — He never said anything about it.
- 10510.
You were to canvass the people who came to your house ? — Yes.
- 10519.
Witness recalled and further examined. (Mr. Holl.) Did you have anything from the other side ? — Yes.
- 10520.
How much was that ?— 3L.
- 10521.
Who from ? — Mr. Lock.
- 10522.
Was that to vote for Mr. Crompton Roberts ? — I do not know what it was for, he never mentioned.
- 10523.
He asked you to vote for Mr. Crompton Roberts, did he not ? — He never asked for my vote at all.
- 10524.
He spoke to you before you voted, before the election day ? — It was before then some time.
- 10525.
What did he say to you ; did he ask you if you would go with them ? — Yes, he told me he had got a few words to say to me.
- 10526.
What were the few words ? — About the coming election.
- 10527.
About voting on their side ? — Yes, that he was canvassing for Mr. Roberts.
- 10528.
And he asked you to vote for Mr. Roberts ? — He never asked me to vote.
- 10529.
What did he say ? — He said he was canvassing, and wanted to get all he could.
- 10530.
He said it would be all right, did not he ? — Yes, he said it would be all right ; but there was nothing said about my vote, there never was to him.
- 10531.
Afterwards you voted ? — I voted. It was some time before the election.