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Q. That might be enough to scare the rioters ?


A. No, I did it before down there.


Q. Moving the magazine ?


A. Yes.


Q. You said there were about ten machine guns ?


A. Yes.


Q. Do you know if the others were fired at all ?


A. They were not fired.


Q. You are quite positive of that ?


A. Yes.


Q. Quite positive, to your personal knowledge ?


A. To my personal knowledge they were not fired that night.


Q. You told me that the machine gun had about two feet of elevation ?


A. Yes.


Q. In a trajectory of 135 or 150 feet how would you cock it that it might hit the top of the building ?


A. It was not fired up that street that he asked me — It is not the way to answer a question, Mr Lavergne, but he asked me about coming in the house. Well, I showed you these were the gun fire, not machine gun.


THE CORONER : These shots up in the house were rifle shots ?


A. Yes, these were rifle shots.


Q. Did you see the marks on the house ?


A. No.


Q. You have not seen them ?


A. No, I have not.


MR. LAVERGNE : You are positive that the machine gun was not horizontally fanned when it was fired ?


A. No.