The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1886-03-30 00:00:00

ELECTION PETITI()S.

I,CNc.Vi UNsKATKII.

The trial of the Barrow election petition was con-
cluded on Tuesday at the 11..wrow Town Hall, before
Justice* Field and Day.—Mr. Matthew, resumed his
addle., and contended that the 17th Amnon it the
Act had been contravened. With regard to the
workers and those who had recei,ed ntmiihnients, it
was not Mr. Schneiders wish that any One should be
punished. He only claimed that the meat eh lit be
A. B. Kelly, representing the Public
Prosecutor, said that if their lordships preferred to
deal in the report with any person they must know
that such person or persona MSAL be subpieueed, and
it would be his duty to bring them beton, the Court.
if they came to the conclusion that !retsina had been
illegally treated, and mune. were submitted, then he
would see that those parties were served with the
proper notice.—On their lordship.. taking their seats
after luncheon, Justice Field proceeded ti deliver
judgment. After referring to the evidence, he 'ski
there VIM no doubt some difficulty in construing
the section, but after consideration they
were of opinion that there were no illegal practices
committed by the candidate or his agent in reference
to the platen. or bills, or in their distribution. With
regard to the refreshments, he reviewed peat legis-
lation, and stated what he took to be the intention of
the Act id IMita. Ile had had great difficulty, he said,
in deciding whether it would not come to be hi, duty
to say that the practice ws, a corrupt one under the
circumstances before them. But lie could not help
coming to the conclusion that there was on this
occasion an employment of men, and an employment
for payment. He was therefore compelled to come
to the concluaion that it would lei his duty to report
the matter to the Speaker of the House of Commens.
There did not appear to ne any socrecy_about it how.
ever. It WM au open practice. They mist not
impute to a man a crime if his conduct NSA consistent
with any other construction tieing put upon it. There.
fore he could not under the circ tenors, come to
the conclusion that the conduct. of Mr. Duncan and
Mr. Garnett was corrupt an the sense onderstood l.
the Act.—Mr. Justice Day oil,' that to hi, mind it
hail been clearly established in the evidence before
them that person* were, for the purpose id promising
the election if Mr. Duncan, employed for payment in
ways other than those provide I by the statute, and
that constituted, under the Act, illegal payment in
the came of his agent and other.. .tx set forth by hie
learned brother, they had been guilty of Moira'
practices, and such illegal praetices necessarily voided
the slection.—Their lordships granted the petitioner
eitate.

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