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We charged the crowd in Queen's Road repeatedly.
We always had to get back to the corner to protect a shop
there. A missile struck an Indian Police constable on the temple. P.0. Wright had previously been roughly handled
The
by the crowd previously in trying to make an arrest. crowd came for us, I fired three rounds from my revolver in
the air.
Another Indian Police constable was bandaging his PM. Wright & dear look over the Carbines.
comrade
.P.06. Wright and Vear fired about the same time as
I did. I had not my eye on their carbines when they were
firing. The crowd scarcely gave at all; but fell back as
The wounding
reinforcements came up almost immediately.
There was a
was discovered on arrival of reinforcements.
dense crowd down along Queen's Road to the West from where
we were standing.
I was in com-
My duty
Some-
Misailes and
Walter William Cooper, L.S.No.74, (sworn) : mand of a company including P.C. Brook on the 2nd. was to keep order in Queen's Road and Jervois Street. time after 1 o'clock,myself, Brook and three Petty officers on whom we had called were charging the crowd in Jervois
Street from about 12.30 p.m. to 1.30 p.ia. stones, bricks and pieces of wood were thrown in Jervois
I Street and we had to fall back on to the Queen's Road. eventually posted a party opposite the Land We Live In, of constable Brook, two Indian Police constables and three Petty
in Jervois officers. Stones and bricks were thrown at us Street. The crowd became much thicker. We charged the crowd
them
I also took my re- time after time to try and clear away. volver out and fired one round in the air as a warning.
to get
I
went to a telephone 40 or 50 paces away in a shop
assistance.
Mw
I said to P.C. Brook, "Don't fire and don't
allow the Indians to load their carbines".
I was away about
M
to
almost a quarter of an hour because I had to go to No.5 get assistance. I came back with Sergeant Hedge and some