Q. What is your profession?
A. I am a practicing attorney.
Q. State, Mr. Mumma, what knowledge you had of the conduct of the militia during the riots of last July?
A. We had no militia—no organized militia in the city until during the riots, until after the dispersal of the rioters by the sheriff's posse. A few men, two or three in number, sometimes came here in a train, evidently in order to meet their companies, and came for that purpose without organization, not more than five at one time, and the men who seemed to get up all the difficulties about the cars, immediately disarmed them and took their arms from them, and then there was no further violence exhibited to them. There were five, I think, is the highest number I saw. They had no means of resistance, as there was no organization, that was, of the military we had in the city before that.
Q. Those were men that had gathered in obedience to the call of their officers?
A. Gathered to meet their companies, came from the upper end of the county, some few from Lebanon county. They came in the trains, and they were only in squads of two or three, sometimes one alone.
Q. Were they overpowered by the mob?
A. They did not resist any, so far as I saw. Their arms were demanded, and they gave them up.
Q. How many did you see surrender their arms?
A. There may have been twenty or twenty-five, altogether.