A. No, sir.
Q. Did they belong to the city, mostly?
A. Oh a good many of them did; yes, sir. It brought our worst characters to the surface, of course.
By Mr. Engelbert:
Q. When you found a man who was boisterous, and rather of an ugly disposition, you did not wait until the next day to arrest him?
A. We went for him at once.
Q. Right then and there?
A. Yes, sir.
Q. Did you not propose to do it in a quiet way?
A. We did not want to bark up a fight in any way. Of course, our whole course was to suppress disorder; but when a man was violent, we would not hesitate, and we did not run around with a chip on our shoulders, and ask some one to knock it off, or anything of that kind.