every time a senior officer speaks to a junior. It practically means they always are in receipt of verbal orders. As I stated in my evidence I was instructed on that evening in question to proceed to the neighborhood of the Boulevard to be followed later by Major Rodgers. That was a verbal order.
Q. I am not talking of that. Before you left the barracks were not the officers supplemented with certain verbal orders confirming or adding to the written orders ?
A. That is invariably done whenever there are verbal instructions. I think on this occasion we also - I had written instructions detailing the various parties.
Q. Would you mind telling the Jury what were these verbal orders as far as the work you had to carry out that night ?
A. As I say any orders that were issued were simply in the form of a conversation between myself as senior officer and other junior officers.
Q. Would you mind telling what you told them ?
A. I cannot recollect in the slightest what conversation took place prior to our starting out on our various duties.
Q. You have had a considerable military experience ?
A. Spread over a limited number of years, yes.
Q. Have you been required to render aid to the civil power before ?
A. Have I ?
Q. Yes.
A. I have not.
Q. Do you know whether there was any civil magistrate with your detachment under whose orders you were to be that night accompanying you ?
A. Under whose orders we were to be ?
