(Notes read by stenographer)

I asked you if he was incompetent to take an oath and you said Yes. Of course Mr. Taylor your objection from beginning to end has been noted and read. MB, TAYLOR: It is not an objection, or cannot be put as an objection. MR. POWELL: Are you going to change it ? MR TAYLOR: No, but I am going to point out in way that my friend can understand it that that does not amount to an objection, if I rise up here and call the attention of the court to something that is not an objection. MR POWELL: You have said that he is incompetent there. MR TAYLOR: I merely called your Honor's attention to the fact that the man was not in such a stage of mind to make an oath— I called your Honor's attention to that fact and I stick to that now. COURT: And you said as a result of those facts that this man was incapable of taking an oath. MR TAYLOR: I said that it did not seem to me that he could be Justified at all. MB. POWELL: Mrs. Blygh has read it and settled it, why is there all this discussion now about it ? I would ask that we proceed. It has already already been settled, and I would ask now that we have the witness affirmed ---- COURT: There may be something in what Mr Taylor says that the form of oath must be binding on this witness. I don't know whether it is binding on BC Archives GR-0419 BRITISH COLUMBIA. ATTORNEY GENERAL. Box 100 File 1904/10 Attorney General documents.