By Senator Reyburn:
Q. Is it the custom of workingmen to congregate in meetings and crowds, that way, and hear the report, for instance, if there is a committee been known as having waited on the officials of a railroad or coal companies?
A. Yes sir; if there was a committee pending between the men and the company, possibly the committee could not afford to issue a call through the papers, and nine, ten, or fifteen of the committee would go around and tell some one, and they would tell others that the meeting would be held at such a place.
Q. Do you suppose that was the way this meeting was called?
A. No, sir; I have no idea how it was called. I have no idea how it was called, not the slightest.
By Mr. Larrabee:
Q. Except you heard it talked among several of the laboring men, that there was to be such a meeting?
A. Yes; or rather asked me if I was going to be at the meeting.
By Senator Reyburn:
Q. When the motion to adjourn was carried, and the meeting broke up, did the men that went off to the flats, and come towards the city, go in a body, or with an organization, or was it merely that portion that lived in this end of town, coming home?