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[page 760] 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?