Q. Major Rodgers swore that every officer had been supplied with two copies of the Riot Act, one in French and one in English. You say you had none ?
A. I had none.
Q. Dont you think then that it would have been proper that this Riot Act, seeing how things were going, how badly the crowd was behaving, that this Riot Act should have been read ?
A. Is it necessary to read it before any action is taken in any part…
Q. Well, that is a thing on which we will not agree. I think so. You may say no.
MR. BARCLAY : The law says no.
MR. LAVERGNE : The law says yes.
MR. BARCLAY : It is a question of law.
MR. LAVERGNE : It is a question of law we wont agree on, you and I.
MR. BARCLAY : We don’t have to.
MR. LAVERGNE : Anyway let the witness answer. I dont know if he knows the law as well as you do.
Q. The question was, dont you think it was proper then that the Riot Act should have been read to that crowd seeing how badly that crowd was behaving ?
A. I think owing to the number of different crowds there were around that night, it would have taken a great deal of time to have…
Q. It is a very short Act ?
A. I have no knowledge of the Act, but…
Q. It takes about one minute or two to read it, not quite a minute.
A. Well, that is a point I know nothing of.
Q. It was not done ?
A. It was not done by me.
