if it could be avoided, to avoid a clash. I went around myself, visited them all. And we started - I should judge it would be a little after seven. The crowd was beginning to get quite a size. We kept the traffic going both ways; and about, I should judge, eight o’clock they began to congregate around Jacques Cartier Square. So I started the traffic up one side and down the other. That is, having them all go in the one way on the one side of the street. At that time there were two or three prisoners had been brought if for — caught throwing, some of hem had been caught throwing stones or bricks. That was about, I should judge, 8.30, between eight and eight thirty. One man in particular that I asked myself two or three times to move on would not. Well he was more than an individual, I did not bother with him. He was caught on the side street later throwing bricks in, brought in by one of the others. And I started Captain Rothry up the main street to move one. About 9.30 the Dragoons came in. I started the infantry off. I am not sure whether I was riding or walking, but Captain Rothry said — I want to move on — what will I do with this man? One man had been hit in the head with a brick.
MR. BARCLAY: One of the soldiers ?
A. One of the soldiers. He was about the first casuality. I said all right. Captain Rothry sent him back to the Merger Building where he got medical treatment. Went on up the street and just then they brought in another boy shot in the leg.
Q. A soldier again ?
A. A soldier. I might say here that we never had a man scratched or hit after we opened fire, there was not one person upon our side, and we had up to that time, minor
