A. No, we then proceeded up St. Joseph Street to Bagot Street.
Q. Your men did not retaliate there ?
A. At the Boulevard ?
Q. Yes, at the Boulevard ?
A. There was no firing while I was there. As I say I simply lingered there a few minutes.
Q. Had you heard shots, firing before ?
A. I had heard firing an we were going up.
Q. Revolver shots or rifles or machine gun ?
A. I heard no machine gun. And it was at such a distance that I could not pretend even to say whether it was a rifle or a revolver shot that you hear in the distance. When I got out to the Boulevard there were revolver shots then there and close to my own position.
Q. Did you or Major Rodgers designate any officer for every detachment used that night which was to command fire ?
A. Which was to ?
Q. Command fire. And did you warn the men that that officer alone had the power to command fire ?
A. You could not designate an officer, you could not designate any one officer. For instance, a couple of bodies of troops might come together, I might be by order of seniority senior there, and some one designated that they could take orders only from. So it is against all reason that that should be done.
Q. I don’t know. You are aware of the paragraph.
A. Outside of that, orders are laid down in my own orders which perhaps you have not seen.
Q. No.
A. Specified from time to time. And I invariably draw their attention to the fact that troops would receive the
