A. You might hear men talking of a great many things, but nobody could imagine what they were going to do. Nobody had any firearms to resist anything with. They were asking the question, that there were one thousand five hundred Philadelphia soldiers coming, and what are you going to do with them?
Q. The crowd resisted the soldiers, did they, when they attempted to clear the track?
A. Yes, sir.
Q. The soldiers did not use any more force than was necessary, at first?
A. No, sir; they did not use any force at all, but simply pushed ahead with their breasts.
Q. Tried to push the crowd back quietly?
A. Yes, sir.
Q. Did you see any stones thrown?
A. I saw one that I took to be a clod of earth, about the size of my hand, thrown from the west side of the watch-box from the side of the hill, down into the soldiers. That was the only stone I saw thrown that day.
Q. You were not near enough to tell who ordered the firing?