lord john grey , pale and limping but steady of eye and voice , testified before the board , this consisting of five officers drawn from various regiments-none of them siverly's-and the judge advocate , that he had received the papers now presented to the board from captain charles carruthers in canada , where carruthers had served under major siverly and been witness to the actions described herein , and that he , grey , had heard such further testimony from carruthers in person as inclined him to believe the documentary evidence as it stood .