Q. What classes of men refused—conductors and brakemen?
A. Yes; they refused to go, and I went then to get up the yard crews to put on, and brakemen to go in the place of conductors. I got an engine out. We were just going to make a coupling. I had got two crews and brought them up, and I had told a brakeman named W. S. Gerry to couple the engine. He made an effort to do so, and while doing so, they threw at him with pins and links and stones. One of the pins struck him on the side, and he had to run for his life to the Philadelphia fast passenger train, which was standing on the track where he was, and he jumped on it. Had it not been for that they would have been very apt to have caught him.
Q. Who threw those missiles?
A. I cannot say who threw them, but the whole crowd apparently made a rush.
Q. How large was the crowd?
A. Not over twenty.
By Senator Reyburn:
Q. Were they train men?
A. Yes.
Q. What time was that?