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sion for us to trouble ourselves : he was positive there was no 

 danger.'' The prisoner also directed the men to do every thing 

 contrary to what I ordered, wliich occasioned much confusion. 

 Colonel Broughton then ordered him to desist, and to allow the 

 men to obey his orders. In consequence of the confusion caused 

 by the prisoner, we were not prepared to receive the mutinous 

 party ; who came upon us so suddenly, that they took the gun 

 the Colonel had command of, just as it was loading. I gave 

 Colonel Broughton two spikes to have the gun spiked, in case it 

 should fall into the jnutineers' hands ; and when they came up to 

 Colonel Broughton, as they shewed no violence, the Colonel 

 slipped the two spikes into the prisoner's hands ; yet he made no 

 use of them : but suffered the gun, unspiked, to fall into their 

 hands. 



Q,. From the Judge Advocate. — What time do you suppose 

 elapsed between the guns being ordered to be drawn out, and 

 their being ready ? 



A. It was about an hour and a quarter from the time of the 

 alarm to the gun falling into the mutineers' hands. If it had not 

 been for the confusion that the prisoner put us all into, we might 

 have been ready with the guns half an hour before the mutineers 

 came up. 



Q. How many men were there to take out the guns ? 



A. Sixteen ; but the whole, except two or three, went with 

 the first two guns, under Serjeant Tnnstall, to Deadwood. I 

 had to get those men back again (leaving Serjeant Tnnstall with 

 three men) to man the other two guns, and to take them on 

 the road towards the Telegraph, to meet the mutineers — but 

 several men joined me from Long Wood, when I was leaving 

 the shed. 



Q. Notwithstanding these necessary delays, do you say that 

 you could have been ready with the guns, at their proper posts, 



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