Q. How many of your men became casualities at the corner of St. Valier Street and Bagot Street where the shooting took place ?
A. There was ― I could not say definitely how many.
Q. About approximately ?
A. If you remember what I said …
Q. Well, I remember it.
A. I came up and met the casualities coming down.
Q. I understand that you were very busy that night ?
A. Yes.
Q. Can you tell us if you are satisfied that those casualities among your men took place in the immediate vicinity of St. Valier Street and St. Joseph Street where your men were confined, can you tell us that ?
A. They were in that neighborhood.
Q. How many casualities had you caused by bullet wounds ?
A. We had five I think all told.
Q. Would you tell us if any physical effort was made to disperse the mob before you opened fire on them ?
A. Yes.
Q. Would you tell us what that physical effort consisted in ?
A. We sent different parties around different ways. You mean late in the evening before the shooting ?
Q. Yes, immediately before the shooting or at the time of the shooting ?
A. Immediately before the shooting. Yes, there were parties up to two side streets and were told to disperse if they could and at that time ― I might explain it in this way, that early in the evening they would get in mobs, there was no firing, once the firing started they kept backing up from us all the time, they kept backing up, they would not — you could not get near them at all.
