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see very well what they were shooting at and a man standing up, very little difference in the elevation, by the time he goes that distance, makes an awful lot of difference where the bullet hits.

MT. LAVERGNE: How big a distance, how many yards?

A. I should judge from the map that house would be ..

THE CORONER: About two acres.

WITNESS: I should judge 400 yards from that spot to the house, between four and five hundred yards.

Q. Not four hundred?

A. Roughly.

Q. There is about two hundred yards?

A. I dont know. I have not seen the place.

MR. LAVERGNE. From the map. Is there a scale on the map?

A. No, there is no scale.

MR. BARCLAY: About 135 feet.

Q. In your movements around town from one place to another, were your troops followed by a crowd?

A. You mean down there or when we were going down?

Q. Moving from the Square, when you left the Square, was there still a crowd around your troops?

A. Oh yes.

Q. Right up to the time of the firing?

A. No, up till about ten o’clock the crowd were in around all over. Once the firing started the crowd got away.

Q. Which firing are you speak of now?

A. Their firing.

Q. They got in front of you and kept in front?

A. They kept, the people, the spectators which were a big percentage I think early in the evening, when their firing started, kept off the street; they backed as near as I could explain it out towards the Boulevard.