Q. Did you so inform the mayor of that week?
A. Yes; and the question was raised as to how they were to be paid, and quite a number of citizens there pledged themselves for the payment, and the mayor was asked if that would be satisfactory, and he said it was entirely so.
Q. Did the mayor issue any call, or any command, or summon any posse of citizens as a police force?
A. Immediately a call was made for citizens to unite with the mayor, and I think there was quite a force congregated together, and started to procure such arms as were available.
Q. That was the request made, was it?
A. I am not able to recall whether the request was made by the mayor. It was suggested from some source, and matters were done under a good deal of excitement. There was not much formality about that.
Q. Doctor Donnelly's command was organized at that time?
A. Donnelly had charge of it. An hour afterwards or so there were some others that repaired to the Duquesne depot. There are others can tell you more about that than I. The next morning I was at the mayor's office, when a sort of militia force was organized.
Q. How large a force was organized?
A. It is difficult to tell; I could only guess at it. There were, perhaps, two hundred.