MR. LAVERGNE : Mounted or …
A. The mounted were home in the stables before the shooting took place.
MR. FITZPATRICK: You did not give the order to fire ?
A. No.
Q. Do you know the officer who gave the order to fire ?
A. I do.
Q. He was acting on his own account. Give me his name ?
A. Major Mitchell.
Q. You were in the immediate vicinity, were you not ?
A. I was between the Boulevard and there on my way up.
Q. You were faced with the difficulties as well as others, were you not ?
A. Well, what do you mean by difficulties ?
Q. You were not having it all your own way ?
A. Oh no.
Q. So far as your men were concerned you saw no necessity to open fire on the men ?
A. I did.
Q. Did you open fire ?
A. Well, when I say I saw — if I had been there I would have ordered them to open fire.
Q. You would have ordered them ?
A. I would.
Q. These civilian casualities, were they shot by machine gun fire or by individual shots ?
A. They were not shot by machine gun fire.
Q. By isolated shots ?
A. By isolated shots, yes.
Q. Were these men shot at the same time ?
A. No, it was before the machine gun opened.
Q. Were they shot at the same time ?
A. Yes.
