THE CORONER: Oh surely.
A. About 10.30.
Q. When you got to the Boulevard ?
A. We were around the Boulevard. Then patrols and picket moved to Boulevard Langelier where civilians first opened with single shots. There was sniping from the roofs and over the snowbanks up towards the Hill; that is, south, I think.
Q. Do you know if they were firing, shooting with revolvers or guns ?
A. Well from the report I should say it was revolver.
Q. Many shots you heard there ?
A. Oh yes, there were quite a few.
Q. What do you mean by quite a few ?
A. I should say ten, fifteen.
Q. The Riot Act had been read at the time ?
A. Oh yes, much before that.
Q. And was it read again at the corner of St. Valier Street and St. Joseph Street ?
A. Oh I could not say definitely.
Q. You don’t know ?
A. They went on up a little further and when I was between the Boulevard some other troops had gone up while I went back to telephone. When I came back they had moved up to the corner of the cabstand and just as I came to the corner towards the Hill they had opened fire. I had heard quite a bit of firing before that and I went up. I immediately blew my whistle to cease firing, which they did practically at once. There were one or two firing; it was very foggy; you could not see more than I should judge the width of this room up there.
Q. About fifty feet, forty or fifty ?
A. No. You could, I should say, one hundred because I
