Brett, Robert | Day 9
Paid his expenses for Travel from London to vote after receiving a letter requesting him to come.
Witness Type: Bribee
Party: Liberal
Witness Testimony:
- 11557.
What led you to expect it, was it merely your own idea that you would get something more, or did anybody suggest to you that you would ? — No, not at all.
- 11558.
We think that you have kept within bounds, and you will not be considered as having been bribed, because it stands in this way, if anybody before the election is promised anything more than his bare expenses, that is to say, anything for loss of time, or for work, that is a bribe ; but as you were promised nothing whatever before, beyond the bare expenses, we shall not consider you as having been bribed ? — Nothing at all was promised before, I will take my bible oath.
- 11559.
If you only got what you had any right to expect, we do not consider that you were bribed; so you will not want a certificate ? — I am obliged to you.