fire only on the instructions of an officer, but you cannot specify any particular officer for duties of that sort : he might have been the one that was hit.
Q. I dont know ; I did not make the law. You are aware this is not warfare ; this is by civil power. Will you allow me to refresh your memory, with all due respect. Paragraph 752 of the King’s Regulations says : If there are more officers than one with the detachment, and it is necessary for more than one section to fire at a time, the Officer Commanding will clearly indicate to the troops what officer is to order any of the sections to fire. No person, except the officer indicated by the Commanding Officer, is to give orders to any file or section to fire ?
A. There was no vast number of troops there and there was no section to my knowledge with more than one officer in charge of it. This was just one section working and there was but one officer with me with that section. I should hardly judge it necessary to read that particular paragraph to the party before starting them on their work.
Q. That is not blame particularly. I am asking you to state if your own troops were not warned and you officers were not instructed either that a civil magistrate was to tell you when to fire and that you were not to fire before ? There was nothing in that connection in your orders or in your instructions, in those given to you or …
A. Orders given to me ?
Q. To you or to Major Rodgers or any of the officers ?
A. That I had to wait under instructed by a magistrate ?
Q. Yes.
Q. To protect those under me, no sir.
Q. You saw at the corner of the Boulevard a crowd ?
A. At the corner of the Boulevard ?
