Q. Are you at liberty to state the object of the Engineers' Brotherhood?
A. It is a more beneficial thing than anything else.
Q. The object of that association is not to control railroad companies, is it?
A. No, sir.
Q. Simply for their own benefit?
A. Benefit; yes, sir.
Q. During the trouble at the outer depot, or on the Fort Wayne, did you know of any armed force of railroad men that were prepared to protect any trains from coming into the city of Pittsburgh that had troops on?
A. I know there was a lot of them went to get some guns. Went down to the lower end of the yard.
Q. Railroad men?
A. I could say I did not see that. I saw a crowd about two squares off from our house. I could see them move down the track. I understood afterwards that was who they were.