A. I saw them pull the cock back—that part that turns back—and put in a cartridge. I was lying right underneath them when they were doing it. The parties in front fired the last shot down Twenty-eighth street. I don't know who they were. They were men with black plumes in their hats.
Q. You say the parties next to Twenty-eighth street were the last to fire?
A. They wheeled right round——
Q. That was the party that fired first?
A. No; the party that fired first was over here. [Illustrating.]
Q. The party facing down Liberty street?
A. Yes; they fired. There was some that was against a car that could not do anything.
Q. Did they fire before the front line fired?
A. They fired about the same time. There was a car stood in here when they fired, so that you could do nothing. Some of them fired up like.
Q. Fired in the air, did they?