I did not hear of him.
Q. There was none ?
A. Not to my knowledge.
Q. Do you know if there was any civil magistrate accompanying every detachment of your force or any officer commanding any detachment of your force on that night ?
A. I can hardly understand what you mean, sir.
Q. Well, I mean, I am referring to the King’s Regulations which say that troops when called out in aid of civil power, the force and every detachment thereof must be accompanied by a civil magistrate under whose orders that troop or detachment is. I want to know if that was done ?
A. Our various detachments proceeded out on duty that evening under instructions received from my superior officers.
Q. Oh yes, it is not a blame ; I would not like you to take it that way.
A. These are the only orders that I received and I proceeded to carry then out in the way …
Q. Quite so ; but you had no orders to be accompanied by a civil magistrate ?
A. No.
Q. Nor any of your detachments to be accompanied by a civil magistrate. There were no orders to that effect ?
A. My detachments, unless they received orders which did not come through me, were — they did not receive instructions from me along these lines. This is the first suggestion …
Q. Were you present at the distribution of the rounds of cartridges ?
A. Present at the distribution ?
Q. Yes, to the men ?
