my superiors to be careful as to the carrying on of our troops : that we must use every consideration and remember ourselves on all occasions. It is natural that such instructions should be given end even if I did not receive these instructions to speak to them along these lines I would have done so on my own responsibility.
THE CORONER : Do you remember that night when you arrived at that spot at the corner of St. Valier and St. Joseph Streets, when you saw a crowd, if the policemen that were standing there to quieten the crowd asked you or your men to help them disperse the crowd or did you offer your services to help them without the firing of arms ?
A. When we arrived at this corner, at I say a small body of our troops were here, at the corner of Laviolette and St. Valier Streets, coming from St. Joseph Street to St. Valier Street. The police moved from the corner where the troops were up to Laviolette Street, seemed to move between those two points without being molested. At the time I first noticed them they were up immediately in front and to the side of the crowd that was up by Laviolette Street. They were there when I proceeded up there and spoke to the crowd and asked them to disperse. The crowd at Laviolette Street seemed to be an entirely different lot to those on Bagot Street. I decided that if there were nasty ones there that they would probably be in that crowd. At Laviolette Street it was reasonable light. These men from the remarks they were making (in Bagot Street) and the taunts they were throwing at us and the fact that they were up this (practically) side street, I think…
Q. They appeared to you more dangerous than the other one ?
