2268 AWARD OF THE FISHERY COMMISSION. 



Q. Could you name your informant ? A. I could not say that, either. 

 But I have heard a number of times. 



Q. Can you give me the name of the cutter that seized these vessels 

 seven miles off? A. No, but probably others could. Probably plenty 

 could. I could not personally. 



Q. You really are sincere in the belief that vessels have been taken 

 seven miles off? A. Five miles I believe they have been taken. 



Q. "Will you swear to that ? A. No. I said I didn't see it myself, 

 but still I would not be lying seven miles off if I saw a cutter coming. 

 I would calculate they would take me, from my experience when I saw 

 the men that boarded me. 



Q. They boarded you ? A. Yes. They jumped on board and blus- 

 tered around until I thought I was going to be hanged. The captain 

 said, " Get out of the bay ; if I catch you here again I will take your 

 vessel." There was a number of vessels taken about that time. 



Q. Who was in command of the cutter ? A. I could not say. 



Q. Where were you then ? A. In the Bay Chaleurs. 



Q. What year? A. Somewhere just before I was in the Etta Gott^ 



Q. Can you give the year ? A. No, I could not. 



Q. You were in the bay at the time ? A. In the Bay Chaleurs. 



Q. Whereabouts? A. Eunning out from, I should think, half-way 

 between Port Daniel and Point Miscou. 



Q. You were just at the mouth clearing out ? A. Just inside the 

 mouth. He stopped every vessel and would not let one go by. 



Q. They frightened you so you took a license for fear you would be 

 taken ? A. Not that year. It was the next year that I took a license. 



Q. Not that you ever thought that you would have occasion to use 

 it ? A. No. 



Q. Did you go within when you had a license ? A. Yes, a number of 

 times. 



Q. Whereabouts'? A. Off Cascumpeque. 



Q. What, on the Prince Edward Island shore ? Didn't I understand 

 you never had been there fishing? A. I don't say now that I was fish- 

 ing there. 



Q. What did you want there ? A. A harbor. 



Q. Why would you run there for a harbor? A. It was handy where 

 we were fishing. 



Q. Where were you fishing that it was handy ? A. We were coming 

 from Bradley. 



Q. Where to ? A. No place. We were coming with the fleet, run- 

 ning promiscuous-like. 



Q. Will you swear you were not running along there with the fleet to 

 fish ? A. No ; if there had been fish there we would fish. 



Q. Will you swear your intention was not to run around and fish ? 

 A. No, I would not swear. 



Q. Did you try to catch them ? A. I call it fishing when I catch 

 fish. 



Q. Trying to fish when you don't catch them is not fishing? A. No, 

 I don't call that fishing. 



Q. Did you catch none at all? A. Three or four we might have 

 caught. 



Q. That was fishing? A. Well, no, we do not call it. Generally 

 speaking, anything over two or three barrels we call fishing. 



Q. When you were there dW you ever go near enough to see whether 

 the coast was well lighted ? A. It is. 



Q. All around ? A. It is, very well. 



