CONTROVERTED ELECTIONS (IPSWICH). (Hansard, 2 April 1886)

§ MR. SPEAKER

informed the House, that he had received from Mr. Justice Denman, and Sir Lewis Cave, knight, two of the Judges selected for the Trial of Election Petitions, a Certificate and Report relating to the Election for the Borough of Ipswich:— We, George Denman and Lewis Cave, being two of the Judges on the rota for the trial of Election Petitions, having presided at the trial of an Election Petition in which Packard and others were Petitioners and Henry Wyndham West and Jesse Collings were Respondents, against the return of the said Henry Wyndham West and Jesse Collings as Members for the Borough of Ipswich on the 25th day of November 1885, do hereby certify and report to the Speaker as follows:—

1stly. We hereby certify that, at the conclusion of the Trial of the said Petition, we determined that the said Henry Wyndham West and Jesse Collings were not duly elected, and that the elections of the said Henry Wyndham West and Jesse Collings respectively were void.
2ndly. We report that it has not been proved that any corrupt or illegal practice has been committed by or with the knowledge or consent of the said Henry Wyndham West or the said Jesse Collings at the said Election.
3rdly. We report that the said Henry Wyndham West and the said Jesse Collings were guilty by their Agents of corrupt practices at the said Election.
4thly. We report that the said Henry Wyndham West and the said Jesse Collings were guilty of illegal practices by their Agents at the said Election.
5thly. We report that the following persons have been proved at the said Trial to have been guilty of corrupt practices, namely:—

James Stephen Garrard, of 8, Alan Road, Clerk;
Arthur Emmanuel Baxter, of South Street, Colchester, Iron-tinner;
John Stroulger, of Trinity Street, Fitter;
William Abbott, of Abbott's Court, Fore Hamlet, Shoemaker;
Robert Norton, of 45, Myrtle Road, Boilermaker;
Isaac Dalby, of 4, Grey Friars Road, Licensed Victualler;
Robert Bennett, of Her Majesty's Gaol, Ipswich, Labourer;
George Suckling, of Chapel Court, Fore Hamlet, Labourer;
Isaiah Bloomfield, of the Welcome Stranger Inn, Fore Hamlet, Licensed Victualler;
Walter Double, of Stone Court, Fore Hamlet, Quay-lumper.

6thly. We report that the following persons have been proved at the said Trial to have been guilty of illegal practices, namely:—

The said Robert Norton;
Henry Norton, of 84, Myrtle Road, Boilermaker;
William Green, of 24, Westgate Street, Shopkeeper;
Henry Gunn, of 9, Trinity Street, Fore Hamlet, Sawyer.

7thly. We report that there is no reason to believe that corrupt or illegal practices have extensively prevailed at the said Election.
8thly. We report that the following persons, who have been reported by us as having been guilty of corrupt or illegal practices, have been furnished by us with Certificates of Indemnity, namely: the said James Stephen Garrard, the said Arthur Emmanuel Baxter, the said Isaac Dalby the said Henry Gunn, the said Henry Norton, the said William Green, the said Robert Bennett, the said George Suckling, the said Isaiah Bloomfield, and the said Walter Double.
9thly. We report that the following persons, who have been reported by us as having been guilty of corrupt or illegal practices, have not been furnished by us with Certificates of Indemnity, namely: the said John Stroulger, the said William Abbott, and the said Robert Norton.