ELECTION PETITION. THE EXETER SEAT.
SEVERAL VOTES DISALLOWED. A JUDGE'S REMARKS. By. Telegraph Press Association.— Copyright. (Received April 10, 9 a.m.) LONDON, 9th April. At the hearing of the . election petition against the return of Mr. H. St. Maur for the Exeter seat, the judges annulled, several bad voting papors and deducted five votes from tho total apparently polled for Mr. St. Maur, on the ground that payment had been made, and that the candidate had distributed bills. Several voters testified that the state- j ments made by them to Mr. H. E. Duke, the defeated Unionist candidate, to the j effect that they had received payment, i were all lies. I Mr. Justice Ridley stigmatised the statements and the denials as a disgrace to the city and the country. The present figures give Mr. Duke 4781 votes, and Mr. St. Maur 47T7. Judgments will ba delivered on fche other points to-morrow. [At the general election in December last, Mr. St. Maur (Liberal) polled 4786 votes against 4782 secured by Mr. Duke.]
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXI, Issue 84, 10 April 1911, Page 7
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172ELECTION PETITION. THE EXETER SEAT. Evening Post, Volume LXXXI, Issue 84, 10 April 1911, Page 7
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