A. Yes; and I asked them what the difficulty was. They told me the men came there and ordered them out, so they went out. They stood all around the streets there.
Q. Have you any knowledge of some men being clubbed and beaten and injured?
A. No, sir. Did not see any clubbed, injured, or beaten in any way, shape, or manner.
By Mr. Larrabee:
Q. Do you not know that such things did take place—that some were beaten and driven out violently?
A. It was talked so. I never heard a man say he was hit.
By Senator Reyburn:
Q. Did you see the mayor hit?
A. No, sir.
Q. Did you see the mayor bleeding as if he had been struck?