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in omming to this conclusion,-that superhuman efforts had been made
te warn this mob of the consequences and that furthermore the meb
were fully osgnisent of what the consequences were and that the
oensequences might ultimately end in sheeting. I do not think any
sther conclusien oan ba oenɑ to.
We have now come to the stage when Mr.King gave the order to fira,
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I think we may fairly omsider ourselves what were the considerations
in Mr.King's mind when he gave the order,because we have te com
to this position eventually "as the firing reasonable"? To decide
that we have te consider what were the considerations in Mr.King's
mind before he gave the order to fire. Now he had this first
considerati en consideration of the general strike and the
general conditions of this Jeleny. He knew the assembly was part
of that strike, He had particular knowledge as a member of the
strike committee - of what was going on in this Colony in reference
to the strike. He know there was criminal intimidation and shooting
and stabbing. All those facts were obviously prosent in his mind, and
they were facts which he took into consideration in giving the
deliberate orders which he gave deliberate erders because these
erders were given after all ether precautions had been taken, after
having harangued the assembly for a period of ten minutes, after having told them of the consequences, of what the result would be of their
refusal to ebay. All these factors were obviously present in his
mind. Alse there was the demeanour of this assembly, the consequences
which were likely to arise if this as embly were not dealt with, Kr King knew there had been a show of Ens by the Police at the Tater- Werks. He knew every effort had been made at the Water Works to disperse this assembly. He knew that the Indian pelios had made a very serious chew of arms and that shets had already been fired, He knew all this had failed to disperse the as-embly, He knew the Indian Police had attempted to held back this neb,had been pressed back and eventually ferced to let them through, He knew that there had been a continual refusal by this assembly te obey the lawful Commands of the police. He had heard that the meb had shouted "Strike him" Striko him". In other words he knew that unloss
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