Minter, William Robert | Day 6
Witness Type: Briber, Publican, Beerhouse Keeper
Party: Liberal
Witness Testimony:
- 5948.
I see you received before the election 30L. besides the 129L. you received after ? — Yes.
- 5949.
You seem to have disbursed that for hire and purchase of 16 POLES, 5L. ? — Yes.
- 5950.
Who was that paid to ? — Different parties.
- 5951.
Were they voters ? — Yes, some of them.
- 5952.
Carriage of the same, lOs. ; erecting the same, 4L. 10s. ; who was that paid to ? — To voters principally.
- 5953.
To different persons who were voters ? — Yes.
- 5954.
Rope blocks, &c., 3L., was that to voters too ? — Yes. I had a little bill of them, but I gave them in, and they were destroyed.
- 5955.
Advertising places — Joseph Walker’s shop, 3L. Was that a station that you hired to put your BILLS up on ? — That is it.
- 5956.
And you paid him that amount ? — Yes.
- 5957.
What is he ? — He is a baker.
- 5958.
Where did you post the BILLS, on the walls of his house ? — In the shop.
- 5959.
The shop window ? — Yes.
- 5960.
Anywhere else ? — He may have had one or two on his house, I think, as well.
- 5961.
Do you remember whether he did ? — Yes, I think I remember seeing one on the side of his door.
- 5962.
You think there was one on the side of the door, and one or two in the window ? — We only sent one at a time, where the different meetings were to be.
- 5963.
You paid him 3L. for that ? — Yes.
- 5964.
It was a small shop, I suppose ? — Yes.
- 5965.
How many days did he have these BILLS up ? — All the time I could get any to put up.
- 5966.
You paid him 10s. a day for putting up one bill in the shop and one on the side of the door ? — No, we had BILLS before Sir Julian Goldsmid came into the place.
- 5967.
How long before ? — Two or three days. We were undecided for two or three days about a candidate, so that some little BILLS came out.
- 5968.
But you had BILLS ? — Oh yes, we had BILLS of different sorts.
- 5969.
Then there is Richard Sutton, garden wall: what is he ? — He is a coachman.
- 5970.
To whom ? — To Mr. Green.
- 5971.
e let you put a bill upon his master’s garden wall ? — No, his own. He has a large frontage close to my place. That is where the printing is done.
- 5972.
You paid him 1L. 15s. for putting a bill up on his wall ? — Yes.
- 5973.
Is he a voter ? — Yes.
- 5974.
Is Joseph Walker a voter ? — Yes.
- 5975.
How many days did he have the bill up on his wall ? — The whole time.
- 5976.
Ten days ? — Yes, about 10 days.
- 5977.
(Mr. Jeune.) How big was the bill ? — It was not one bill alone, all the BILLS.