| Summary: | scrob v FH. Young. An'. VH. Young. JW. And he's done this several times before, eh? VH. Yeah, he done it before. FH. He tried to kill me with a knife, see. He.we grabbed his hand when he went an' hit me. Just dug the.the carpenter's knife right in the coat, an' I. (DRPW AP, YOU KNOW??) the handle an' just grabbed his hand. VH. This was the side,see. FH. An' put a little mark on it to find out who it was I put.scrabbed[??] it, an' I haul (ed) down his coat an' found a button. JW. Did he frighten anybody else that night? VH. .No- yeah! yeah. Remember the other.? FH. Yeah VH. Georgie, Garry.I wasn't there. FH. we -they- wasn't afraid of him, though. When he went an' done.ripped my coat, I was real mad, an' I had a big boulder in my hand an' I walked up to him like that. An' I slapped the (?) of his head an' cut his head open. VH. An' the other feller's mother, you know, Christopher, (SAID DON'T!) GO! Let him go!' FH. An' then another feller.no, see, I was.he never ripped my coat then; he just grapped me. That was.split one o' the young feller 's head open first. An' then another.there was three o'them, I think - two or three. VH. Yes. FH.and then the other one came out from the bushes an' he grabbed me by the coat. That was when (the man) ripped - my coat. But i grabbed his hand an _scrabbed_ it. JW. So they were all dressed up, three of 'em? FH. Yeah. An' I scrabbed his finger so I know who it was if I saw him. JW. An' were they all dressed up to.in the same way? Did they all have masks on, or what? FH. No, never had masks [PT]. They had all black stuff over their face, soot. JW. Yeah. The faces were blackened, and what about their [reverse] hands? Did they have gloves on, or what. FH. Yeah, gloves. JW. An' they were all covered in black otherwise? FH. An', see.no, they .one of 'em never had any gloves on, see. That's why I thought that. the other (boys) had gloves 'cause I felt his hand; I scrabbed it, scrab- bed his hand. An' then I ran down anI I was.I picked up a rock an' slap- ped it on ( THE ? ) an ' took ...
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