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ON THE THIRTEENTH DAY OF APRIL, 1918.

Témoignage du Major George Gooderham Mitchell[1]


GEORGE GOODERHAM MITCHELL, of the City of Toronto, in the Province of Ontario, Major, aged 39 years, being duly sworn upon the Holy Evangelists, doth depose end say :-



THE CORONER : When did you arrive with your regiment, battalion ?


A. I left — I am not sure of the dates.


Q. Only the day you arrived here ?


A. A week ago Sunday at about four o’clock in the afternoon.


Q. 31st of March ?


A. 31st of March at about four o’clock, that was Sunday afternoon.


Q. On Monday evening, the first of April, you were in charge of a certain number of soldiers at the corner of St. Valier Street, St. Joseph Street and Bagot Street, were you not ?


A. At what hour ?


Q. From say ten to twelve. You might tell the jury what you did that night, which would be the same thing, if you remember where it was. Here is St. Joseph Street, there Jacques Cartier Market and St. Valier Street and Bagot Street ?


A. Yes, I have got them.


Q. MR. BARCLAY: There is the cabstand there.


A. Then the Boulevard Langelier is there — here, is it not ?


THE CORONER : Yes, right here.


WITNESS: On the evening of Monday I was with Major Rodgers at the Merger Building, that is, the early part of the evening. Some time later, I should say it must have

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