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On Saturday evening I was in my office; it would be a quarter to seven, I was called to the telephone, got a message that an automobile had gone over the North Arm Bridge. I got down there and there was a man standing at the gate on the northside of the bridge with a lamp. A;- I could not say who he was. I thought it was Mr Dodson. The light was not in his face. I did not stop. I stepped across the swing. I heard a voice down in the water ask, "Is that the doctor," I climbed over the railing and down the pier and got on the scow that the girl on it and when I got through on the deck in the stern, saw a man bending over the little girl, and he said he didn't think she was drowned; did think she was dead. However I picked her up and the two of us carried her down in the stoke hold and there was another man there holding another little girl in his arms. I didn't notice him particularly. I didn't notice this little girl very closely. She began to cry. I concluded she was all right. They told me to take her to his house, but with the other little girl I didn't think she was dead and practiced artificial respiration. I took, got him to take her clothing off so I could work on her. I could find no evidence of her heart. In the meantime I sent a man out for helpers. After I had been working there for twenty minutes it struck me there were no police around to take charge so I asked one of the men if he had telephoned the police and I sent him out and after a few minutes they came along. In a few minutes one came down. I went to see one in Mr Mitchells house. He was in a pretty fair condition. I left him. I went to see the little girl Evans at Mr Dodson's house, and looked after her. Then I crossed the bridge, came to the corner of the River Road and I went in and saw him, and he was in a pretty good condition, didn't waste any time on him. I went back to the bridge thinking perhaps some other might get out. Mr Jackson; - Q;- A;- I would not be prepared to say