Q. Did your information at that time lead you to suppose that there had been no attack made by the mob?
A. Yes, sir.
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Q. Did you depend upon your reporters for the information upon which you wrote?
A. Yes; largely. To some extent on such information as we could get outside.
Q. Were you on the ground where the firing took place, on Twenty-eight street, at the time?
A. No, sir; at no time on the ground. I had a reporter sent to Torrens station early in the evening. The idea at that time was that that would be the vital point; there was where the trouble was going to be. Colonel Guthrie was there with the Grays, and it was supposed to be the real point. It turned out afterwards that the trouble was down at the round-house. I got my information from sundry sources.
Q. Had you a reporter there?
A. No, sir; I had no reporter, but I had parties who were out there and gave me information that was supposed to be intelligent. At the time, they thought that the trouble would be at Torrens station, and I sent parties there, and there was no trouble there. There was no news from that point. The reporter was detained there until very late in the night.
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