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Q.-What was his special duty?
A. The same as mine.
Q.-He succeeded you?
A. Yes.
Q.-What was he doing before he went into the Public Works Department?
A. He was Armourer Sergeant.
Q.-And he came from there into the Public Works Department?
.A. Yes.
Q. Do you know how many years he stayed there?
A.-I relieved him, I think.
Q.-So he was in the department about six years, or eight at the outside?
A. Yes, that is about the time.
Q. And then he had $4,500 to buy his undertaking business with?
A.—I don't know what he paid for it.
Q. He did buy the business?
A.—I don't know whether he bought it; I know he went into the business.
Q.-Well, I am told he gave $4,500 for that business. He could only have made that money in the department. Is not that so?
A. I don't think so, because I remember a few months afterwards he told me he wished he had never left his position as Armourer Sergeant, where he had good pay.
Q.-A man does not make $4,500 as Armourer Sergeant, does he?
A.-I don't know.
Q.-You know as a fact, I suppose, STAINFIELD is well of?
A.—I don't know, I never go to visit him, I meet him in the street, and shake hands with him, but I never go to his house.
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Q.-The CHAIRMAN.--Have you never been there with Mr. McLEOD?
A.-No, sir.
Q.-Nor with Mr. CRAMP?
A.-No.
Q.-Were you not with CRAMP at STAINFIELD's one day when there was a talk about the Public Works Department?
A.-No.