Q. How long had you been there?
A. I had been down a week previous.
Q. Had there been any rumors of any difficulty here, prior to the commencement of the Pittsburgh riots?
A. I telegraphed, on Saturday, to Mr. Halsted, superintendent, like this: "Do you apprehend any difficulty; if so I will return home." He telegraphed me, on Saturday: "I apprehend none; if I do so I will wire you." I have not got a copy of that telegram here.
Q. Did you, from any source, receive any intimation that there was liability to be any strike here, prior to the outbreak at Pittsburgh?
A. No, sir; not in the least.
Q. In your judgment, was this trouble here precipitated by the news of the rioting at other places?
A. Yes, sir.
Q. You think it grew out of that? That, the news of what was going on at other places, stirred up the workingmen, and incited them to do as they did?
A. Yes; permit me to say that I do not believe the miners would ever have come out of the mines, had the railroad men not suspended, and if the coal had been taken away from them as they mined it, the men would not, in my opinion, have come out of the mines.