A. I was coming down to go out on the five-twenty trip, and when I came to the round-house, above Twenty-eighth street, I saw a crowd of boys there. I asked what was going on—I asked somebody that I was acquainted with, and was told that the freight men were on a strike. That was, as near as I can tell, about four o'clock.
Q. Who told you that?
A. Robert Hardy.
Q. Do you know whether he was among the strikers?
A. I don't know.
Q. How large a crowd was assembled there?
A. I suppose about fifty persons. I thought that somebody was hurt by the Johnstown accommodation. It was just such a crowd as gathers when an accident takes place.
Q. Were they boisterous and noisy?
A. No; I didn't go into the crowd.
Q. Did you have any conversation with any of the men?