2i6 MINUTES OF EVIDENCE taken before SELECT COMMITTEE Midget Keating.
6654.
Who invited you to go there?—David
Keiley's wife.
"
6655.
Did you go and dine in consequence of that invitation ?—I
did.
s8 February 1848.
^^ Who*was there?—Bob
Black.
6657.
Was David Keiley there ?—He
wras.
6658.
And his wife?—Yes.
6659.
Did you see them pay for the dinner?—No,
sir.
6660.
Did you go for any porter for them ?—Yes,
I went for stout for them.
6661.
To the bar?—Yes,
from the kitchen.
6662.
And did you get it when you went for it r—I did.
6663.
And you were not asked to pay for it ?—No,
sir.
Cross-examined by Mr.
B.
Andrews.
6664.
You went for stout for them ?—Yes.
6665.
And brought it ?—Yes.
6666.
What clay before the election were you there?—I
think it was three or four days before the election, I am not certain which.
6667.
I wish you could fix the day?—I
am not certain ; three or four days before the election.
6668.
What part of the day was it you were there ?—In
the evening.
666g.
In the evening you wrere there?—Yes.
6670.
How late in the evening ?—I
think it was, but I am not certain; as near as I can think, it was about four or five o'clock.
6671.
Do you know anybody else wrho w7as there that time ?—I
do, 6672.
Was William Doyle there?—I
saw7 William Doyle there.
66j3.
He was there?—Yes.
6674.
At the same time ?—Yes.
6675.
How long wrere you there ?—I
was there from about three o'clock till late that night.
6676.
Did you see John M'Carthy there ?—Yes,
I did see John M'Cartlry.
6677.
And Daniel Connolly?—Yes.
667S.
William Howes ?—Yes.
6679.
Patrick Brennan ?—I
did not see Patrick Brennan ; Bob Black, John Farley, of Scilly; there were a great many there I did not see.
6680.
I do not ask you as to those you did not see, but those you did see ?—
Those I did.
6681.
You are a servant of Mike Murphy ?—Not
at that time I was not.
66S2.
When did you go into Mike Murphy's service ?—A
fortnight or three weeks after.
6683.
Who w7ere you living with ?—At
David Keiley's house, if was there I was lodging.
Re-examined by Mr.
Manisty.
6684.
Do you recollect where you got your dinner?—In
the kitchen.
6685.
Where were they drinking ?—In
the kitchen ; they were in all parts of the house ; it w7as in the kitchen I got my dinner.
6686.
Can you tell us where you saw Doyle drinking ?—I
saw Doyle come in from the road and go dowrn to the tap-room and drink there.
6687.
By the Committee] When you fetched the stout, did you say who it was.
for ?—No
; I was not asked who it was for.
6688.
Who gave it you ?—Mrs.
Sisk.
6689.
Were you Keiley's servant at that time?—No;
I went in with David Keiley's wife; they asked me in the kitchen to go to the bar for a few bottles of stout.
6690.
You said for a few bottles of stout ?—Yes.
6691; Y'ou said you were living in his house, I thought?—I
was lodging in David Keiley's house.
6692.
Had you ever got things from Sisk's before ?—Never.
oGgs.
You fetched a few7 bottles of stout for them?—I
am not sure whether it was five or six bottles of stout that I got.
6694.
Was it either five or six you got ?—It
was either five or six I got that 1 took into them one time; I took them in two or three times to them.
6695.
In the wdiole you mean to say that it w7as five or six bottles ?—It
was at cue time I got five or six bottles from him to take into the kitchen.
66g6.
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