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Q. That might be enough to scare the rioters?

A. No, I did it before down there.

Q. Moving the magazine?

A. Yes.

Q. You said there were about ten machine guns?

A. Yes.

Do you know if the others were fired at all?

A. They were not fired.

Q. You are quite positive of that?

A. Yes.

Q. Quite positive, to your personal knowledge?

A. To my personal knowledge they were not fired that night.

Q. You told me that the machine gun had about two feet of elevation?

A. Yes.

Q. In a trajectory of 135 or 150 feet how would you cock it that it might hit the top of the building?

A. It was not fired up that street that he asked me -- It is not the way to answer a question, Mr. Lavergne, but he asked me about coming in the house. Well, I showed you these were the gun fire, not machine gun.

THE CORONER: These shots up in the house were rifle shots?

A. Yes, these were rifle shots.

Q. Did you see the marks on the house?

A. No.

Q. You have not seen them?

A. No, I have not.

MR. LAVERGNE: You are positive that the machine gun was not horizontally fanned when it was fired?

A. No.