think there were aimed shots. I think they were … they could not aim them on account of the fog. There was not an aimed shot I don’t think could be taken that night on account of the fog. They had brought a machine gun up to the corner. I told the sergeant on no account to start it without orders from myself direct. I asked the policemen that were there to go and tell them to go home, that I was going to start the machine gun. I walked out across the corner back of the cabstand and they had gone down — the name of this street, Valier Street ?
Q. And this one Laviolette?
A. Yes, this street. They had gone down that street. So I saw no one in front of me and I got down on the ground myself and saw that the machine gun was traversed as I thought into the brick wall or very close to it, and I got an interpreter to yell at them three or four times that we were going to start the machine gun. There were three or four shots around the corner ; they did not come up into St. Valier Street ; they were just around the corner to the right. So I started the machine gun and stopped it just like that (the witness snaps his fingers).
MR. LAVERGNE : How many rounds?
A. I would judge it ran about three-quarters of the drum, that is, about 36 shots, about 36 shots were fired.
THE CORONER: Did you fire in the crowd?
A. No. I stated I walked up in front of the machine gun myself and I saw there was no one in front of the machine gun before I gave the command to fire. And I stopped it before it ran the whole drum off. I told him to pick it up, unload it and I telephoned back to Headquarters and said that the crowd had dispersed and the best thing, with permission I would fall back to the
