A. I went back and reported to Mr. Cassatt that he had declined to see me—to come to see him, or to see him.
By Senator Reyburn:
Q. Were you acquainted with the Mayor?
A. Oh, I know him. Not intimately. Have been in his office frequently before. I think he knew me, too.
Q. Have you any knowledge of any steps taken by the mayor to preserve the peace?
A. Not at that time. He declined then. He said the matter had been taken out of his hands, and he would not do anything.
Q. Do you know of his having taken any step at any time?
A. Well, after that—after the fire on Sunday, I saw him then with a lot of police, bringing some men from the Brownsville boat, or Connellsville road, or somewhere along there—after the fire on Sunday. I was not in town on Sunday, owing to an article in the Globe that Thomas A. Scott was at my house directing affairs from there. Having my family over there, I expected a lot of those men out there. I was at my house in East Liberty, around about the stock-yards, all day on Sunday.
Q. You say there was an article in the Globe newspaper published here?
A. On Sunday morning.