see very well what they were shooting at and a man standing up, very little difference in the elevation, by the time he goes that distance, makes an awful lot of difference where the bullet hits.
MR. LAVERGNE : How big a distance, how many yards ?
A. I should judge from the map that house would be…
THE CORONER : About two acres.
WITNESS : I should judge 400 yards from that spot to the house, between four and five hundred yards.
Q. Not four hundred ?
A. Roughly.
Q. There is about two hundred yards ?
A. I don’t know. I have not seen the place.
MR. LAVERGNE : From the map. Is there a scale on the map ?
A. No, there is no scale.
MR. BARCLAY : About 135 feet.
Q. In your movements around town from one place to another, were your troops followed by a crowd ?
A. You mean down there or when we were going down ?
Q. Moving from the Square, when you left the Square, was there still a crowd around your troops ?
A. Oh yes.
Q. Right up to the time of the firing ?
A. No, up till about ten o’clock the crowd were in around all over. Once the firing started the crowd got away.
Q. Which firing are you speak of now ?
A. Their firing.
Q. They got in front of you and kept in front ?
A. They kept, the people, the spectators which were a big percentage I think early in the evening, when their firing started, kept off the street ; they backed as near as I could explain it out towards the Boulevard.
