A. If it was struck plumb dead I think it might do the same thing unless a brick happened to give one place. You asked me about steel plate. That resistance is considered even resistance. Into this brick wall it might take one top off the corner of the brick wall, it might chip out this way.
Q. There would be ricochetting on a brick wall?
A. Ricochetting, perhaps, Ricochetting means this, that it get a some thing to slide on.
Q. And bounces back?
A. It cannot bounce back not to any appreciable extent.
Q. It might hit a brick wall, for instance, and take another direction; that is what we call ricochetting in French?
A. Yes, that is it; you take a brick wall on an angle like that (an acute angle); it will so slide off (in whichever direction it happens to be twisting at the moment).
THE CORONER : Everything you say about the effect of bullets on the body might depend on the distance where it is?
A. Unquestionably.
Q. Because at the exit of the bullet from the gun it has great rapidity and it does not go straight, as you say there is a little wobbling?
A. There is a little wobbling.
Q. It will only settle after a certain distance?
A. Yes.
C. What distance do you think?
A. It should be clear of this keyholing, should be steadied down at about — I am speaking quite broadly — say fifty yards.
Q. Say fifty yards?
A. Should be quite steadied down.
