Q. Do you know how large a crowd was there?
A. No.
Q. Do you know whether there was any efforts made by the civil authorities of the city to disperse the crowd during the day?
A. Well, there was an effort made, at least it so appeared in the inquisition, that parties went to the sheriff, with a view of getting him to render some assistance. One party, a man by the name of Miller, proffered to suppress the mob with fifty men. Said that if the sheriff would allow him to, that he thought he could procure that number of men. This was sometime during the day of Monday that this statement was made. The proffer was made to the sheriff.
Q. Made by Mr. Miller himself?
A. By Mr. Miller, in company with Mr. Wood.
Q. What reply did the sheriff make to that offer?
A. I don't know the exact words—I have all that testimony down.
Q. Give us the substance of it—of his reply?
A. He did not feel disposed to do anything. They said they would get arms and ammunition, and everything that was necessary, to put it down, if he would give his consent, which, it seems, he declined to do; and when they said they would get the arms or guns, he said the rioters have guns, too; and he also said to them that he would not go to do anything by way of suppressing it, for fear that he would be shot the same as the sheriff was at Pittsburgh.