Q. Do you know Colonel Brown or Moore?
A. I don't know him by name.
Q. Did General Pearson give this command to an officer standing close by him?
A. Yes; called them officers.
Q. You saw him when he gave the command?
A. The men that had swords, I think.
Q. You saw General Pearson when he gave this order?
A. Yes, sir.
Q. How close was he to the men he gave the order to?
A. He was standing looking towards the switch box, where these were coming from. Right in front there were some men had a bayonet in another, and he wanted to get it away. He wheeled round this way and gave the orders for these men to fire, and then walked right down the track, but wherever he went to I could not say.