Q. Employ a large number of men?
A. No, sir; we have only two. I have been manufacturing heretofore, and have had quite a lot of them in a glass manufactory.
Q. You may go on and state what you desire to on the subject?
A. I noticed a few days ago, in an evening paper, a statement made by Sheriff Fife, or said to have been by him—of course, I do not know, I only read it in the papers—that I had offered the rioters a thousand barrels of flour.
Q. That was in Sheriff Fife's statement?
A. You gentlemen know, of course, what he did say. It was in the evening papers. It is altogether unfounded; it was neither flour nor money, nor have I ever offered nor paid one cent, or spoken to anybody on the subject. It is utterly without foundation.
Q. What you desire is to correct——
A. Any impression of that kind.
Q. And if such statements were made by the crowd, they were made without authority?
A. Yes, sir.