ABSTRACT
The Hunter Committee heard the evidence of witnesses on eight days in Delhi, twenty-nine days in Lahore and three days at Bombay. All, with the exception of Sir Michael O’Dwyer, General Hudson and Sir Umar Hayat Khan, a Punjab Government supporter, who gave their evidence in camera, being examined in public. Dyer was questioned at Lahore on November 19th. He made a wretched witness, falling into the pitfalls set for the unwary, being goaded to make indiscreet answers and into explaining his action at Amritsar by statements which Sir Michael O’Dwyer, who heard him, found ‘indefensible’ and which caused him to think, he told the jury at his action for libel in 1924, that Dyer’s explanations could not be correct, an opinion confirmed by General Beynon who said on the same occasion, ‘I am sorry to say that the evidence he gave is quite different from what he was thinking and doing at the time’.
