Q. Did your force act in concert with the strikers in protecting the property of the Fort Wayne railroad?
A. We acted under the advice of Mayor Phillips, and we acted in concert, as a matter of course, in protecting property. We sent down men to watch the property and to keep it from being stolen.
Q. You assisted the railroad strikers, or they did so, in protecting the property?
A. They appeared to exercise a guard over it for one or two nights. I guess we had taken charge of the freight trains and set a watch over them, and then, when they gave them up we took charge of them. We sent police down, thirty or forty police, along the road where they had run them out to watch the property, and to keep it from being stolen and carried away.
Q. Was it a general understanding between your police force and these railroad men that you would assist each other in stopping any violence or destruction of property?
A. After they had——
Q. Taken possession of it?
A. Yes; there was an understanding, so far as I understood the situation of the case, the property had to be protected, and they were not able to protect it themselves, and they could not stand it, and when they were not able we protected it, and we had policemen down there by direction of the railroad company, to watch the property also. Under the circumstances we were placed in, we were disposed to do the best we could.
Q. Regardless of who it was that helped to protect the property?
A. Yes; that was the way I understand it.