A. No, sir.
Q. What class of people were these rioters composed of?
A. Well, we afterwards arrested a number of railroaders, though we arrested a number who were not railroaders, and they who were not railroaders, I must say, were the worst characters. The railroaders did not want the trains to run, that was about the extent that they wanted or demanded. The other party, of course, that broke in stores, behaved in a riotous manner.
Q. What did your posse—or what did you find it necessary to do to disperse the crowd?
A. I think our appearance commanded respect. I could hardly put it in any other way. I think they thought we meant business when we went down there, and I gave them to understand that in as plain a way as I could.
Q. Did you disperse them?
A. Yes; we did.
Q. Was it necessary to use any violence in doing that, any more than to make the arrests you have told us?
A. Well, we arrested other parties there. In other words, when we came down there I told them what we proposed to do. We cowed them, and the parties who replied and gave us impudence, we arrested them at once.
Q. Did you have any soldiers, any of the militia at your disposal during any of them?