A. I think they had belonged to the police force—the men who had been discharged, owing to the inadequacy of the funds to meet bills.
Q. Did you have any conversation with the mayor in regard to these policemen?
A. No, sir; I had no conversation myself. We put down what we could pay, and paid it when we were called upon.
By Senator Reyburn:
Q. Did you go down to the scene of the riot and burning on Sunday?
A. Sunday afternoon a good deal of the firing had been done before I got to the city, and walked on down Liberty street past the wrecking—just made a pretty quick trip.
Q. What kind of people were engaged?
A. Some of them appeared to be about as rough a crowd as I ever saw.
Q. Was there much of a crowd actively engaged?
A. I thought so. Down about the Union depot there was an immense crowd of people carrying off all sorts of baggage—seemed to be more engaged at that than anything else, outside of the firemen.