Book 2 - Nathan, Amy, Madison and Ethan Berga

A. The front door.
Q. Did you wait there until he came up
and struck you with this bottle
A. He did not strike me.
Q. Then you started for the back door
A. Yes Sir.
Q. When you started to go out the back
door, did he hit you again
Q. You had the axe handle
A. Yes Sir.
Q. What were you doing
A. I had it in my hands and was using it to
keep him from striking me.
Q. Did he throw the bottle at you
A. Yes Sir.
Q. And the glass
A. Yes Sir.
Q. He did not hit you with those
A. No Sir, I dodged those.
Q. And after he threw those you clinched
A. Yes Sir.
Q. And then you got this piece of wood
you spoke of
A. No Sir, I was standing at the door and
he took the handle away and I tried to get
out of the door.
Q. That is the back door
A. No Sir, the front door.
Q. He had got between you and the door
A. Yes Sir.
Q. Had either of you been knocked down
A. No Sir.
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A. He struck at me. He had the axe handle
and he crowded me so close I see I had to
do something.
Q. What did you do then
A. I picked up a piece of wood.
Q. Where did you strike him
A. I could not say exactly, but I suppose
somewhere on the head.
Q. He fell down
A. No Sir.
Q. What did he do
A. We clinched, and after we were clinched
I noticed Wheeler at the door, and I said,
“Come and help me get my checks and
help me out.” And he said, “No, I don’t
want to have anything to do with it.”
Q. What had you done with the kindling
wood
A. It had got out of my hand entirely. We
struggled over the axe handle then. We
were scuffling there.
Q. You threw him down finally
A. I had him down once and he had me
down. We were both down.
Q. That was after you struck him
A. Yes Sir.
Q. Now, do you know how many times you