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A. Yes, sir* 



Q. Tou refused to give him the information ? 



A. In that way I refused to go with him. 



Q. Did you refuse to give him the information ? 



A. No* not of repeating what I have already said. 



Q. I ask you that question ? 



A. I refused in the first place to give Mr. Garmon information as 

 an informer, that it was not my duty to report to him. 



Q. Did you refuse to give Mr. Burke the information you have now 

 given this committee ? 



Chairman Ryan. — Mr. Lynch please answer that direct. 



A. I refused to go with him in that way or give him any information. 



Q. But you have now come and given the information to this com- 

 mittee which is the first information that any member of the forestry 

 commission has had, or the warden, in reference to any particular 

 trespass ? 



A. Yes, sir. 



Q. How did they get it ? 



A. I told Mr. Garmon at the time where these trespasses were, even 

 to naming one of the lots, and I gave the number of the lot. 



Q. Did you tell him who the trespassers were ? 



A. I told him my suspicions. 



Q. Did Mr. Burke proceed to look the matter up ? 



A. I don't know. 



Q. Then you don't know but what your information was acted on ? 



A. I don't know; I can't tell about that. 



Q. Then you are not giving the information in the first instance 

 now, but gave it to the commission several months ago, and for all 

 you know it has been acted on previous to this time ? 



A. Certainly; I don't know what they have done or haven't done in 

 that way. 



Q. Do you know anything at all with reference to those trespasses 

 at Long Lake; did you make any inquiry from those men as to the 

 lots or localities ? 



A. I did not; I told all that I had to say in regard to that; all that 

 I knew of it I told in, my direct testimony. 



Q. Did you ever communicate that fact to any one connected with 

 the forestry commission ? 



A. I did not because all this has come there lately. 



Q. How long ago ? 



A. I can't say as to days, but within some weeks. 



Q. So that it is a recent matter ? 



