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Q. Whether it made any impression upon
your mind for the purpose of reporting it
A. It made an impression upon my mind
as being cruel. But I didn't know the
rules or instructions or anything about it.
I didn't consider it my business as a
new hand to stick my nose into any
business of that kind.
Q. Did you think at the time there was
any occasion to interfere about it at all
A. I thought there was occasion enough,
yes, sir.
Q. So far as you know that never came to
the knowledge of any officer of the institution?
A. So far as I know it never did.
Q. Do you mean to say that the engineer
struck the man hard? A. He used to
strike him across the ear a back-handed
blow.
Q. With great violence? A. Violent enough to
make him cry out.
Q. What you would call a hard blow? A. Rather
an uncomfortable blow, not hard enough to
knock him down or anything of the kind.
Q. Hard enough to move him at all from
when he would be standing?