A. No, sir.
Q. Would it have been possible that night for these men to get hold of these parties—those officers that had the warrants? Were you out that night on duty?
A. Not that night—never off duty, you might say—we are always on duty.
Q. What I want to know is, whether these officers could have arrested these men they had warrants for?
A. I think it would have been almost an impossibility to have got them, unless they were got at their homes. To take them out of that crowd would take twice the force to get one or two men.
Q. You believe that with the force of the mayor, it would have been impossible to have taken these men?
A. To take these men right in the crowd, it would have been dangerous. I felt that way. I have had occasion to be where there was something like a riot at the bolt works, this same summer, and we had about twenty police there, and I suppose there was some fifteen hundred or two thousand men. We gave them to understand they could not pass into the gates, and they did not pass in, and it all passed quiet, and nobody hurt; but if we had fired one shot, I do not think we would have been of much use.
Q. As an experienced officer, you would not have made the arrest that night in that crowd?
A. Not in that crowd.
Q. Do you know whether there was any effort made to shadow these men—following them to their homes?