We found that the nearest we could get to it was, that someone had told somebody else about it.

One day I managed to discover a Canadian soldier who said he had seen the crucifixion himself.

I at once took some paper out of my pocket and a New Testament and told him, "I want you to make that statement on oath and put your signature to it." He said, "It is not necessary." But he had been talking so much about the matter to the men around him that he could not escape.
I had kept his sworn testimony in my pocket and it was to obtain this that the Deputy-Judge-Advocate-General had called upon me.

I gave it to him and told him that in spite of the oath, I thought the man was not telling the truth.

Weeks afterwards I got a letter from the Deputy-Judge telling me he had found the man, who, when confronted (p.