Page:C29 - Émeutes de Québec de 1918 - Témoignage du Major George Gooderham Mitchell BAnQ Québec E17S10D1661-918.djvu/32

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A. I was.


Q. Were you there when it was fired ?


A. At the corner ?


Q. Yes.


A. I was not. I did not see the gun fire, no.


Q. Did you hear it ?


A. I think I heard machine gun fire. At the time that that firing took place I was in the cabstand at the corner there and had to interrupt my conversation because I could not hear what was saying and remarked at the time that there was a machine gun there.


Q. Did you see or hear it fired afterwards ?


A. It was after this original firing that I say I was telephoning some time.


Q. I mean after the telephoning did you hear the machine gun again ?


A. I only heard what I thought a Lewis gun on one occasion.


Q. On one occasion ?


A. Yes.


Q. Did you come back to Major Rodgers afterwards to proceed further ?


A. It was just a case of stepping out of the door and Major Rodgers and I were both at that little intersection there.


Q. Did you stay there to the end of the trouble that night ?


A. I did. I was there and in that neighborhood. I went up Bagot Street. I had a conversation with a priest or a minister up there ; did what I could and covered that immediate neighborhood. I was there till we were withdrawn.


Q. Did you go back to the barracks with the troops ?


A. I am not sure on that point. I am not sure whether