CO129-474 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1922 [1-4] — Page 503

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With someone else ?

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Yes.

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Did you ask the moaning of this convormation ? what I heard to memory.

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Then the shooting took place you were pushing through

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the crowd if you were still moving ?

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I was not pushing the men

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in front, I was approaching them when I was shot.

There were about two thousand people there

Yos.

And therefore there were about

You were in the tenth row ?

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one hundred people in front of you ?

Yes.

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Yos.

So that the big bulk of the mob were behind you ? And the nob in front of you was so thin that you could still walk on ?

place.

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By His Worship.

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I was still walking on at the time the firing took We were all moving on.

Just before the firing took place did you not stop ?

We were walking.

You never stopped ?

or ten minutes.

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What did you do them ?

The people in front waited for about five

During that time I was moving on from behind. I was a long way behind when the crowd was stopped

and I gradually walked a to the tenth row,

Hia Worship. (To Mr. Shenton). That appears to be what he wishes

to explain to us.

Mr. Shenton. I agroe that that is what he wants us to believe. His Worship.

I will put it to him. His Worship then asked the witness whether he was a long way behind when the front part of the or ad

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halted and gradually walked on to the tenth row before the

shooting took place. The witness replied that this was 30.

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By His Worship. How long after you reached the tenth row was it when the

shooting took place ? Then I reached the tenth row the people

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in front started again and we wero all moving on.

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Then the firing took place ? - Yes.

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Mr. Shenton,

Did you take any food with you when you startod on

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this walk?

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No.

How did you expect to got food? - I had my food before started.