Q. Then they got out of the cut on to level ground, and then it was that the firing was done, and when the mob was dispersed.
A. Yes; there was firing done there, and at Penn street. They couldn't fire up and down Penn street without being very close to it.
Q. And this stone that took two men to throw down—did that hit anybody?
A. That is more than I know; not directly, evidently, or it would have killed them.
By Mr. Means:
Q. Was the sympathy of the people of the city of Reading with the strikers, the discharged employés of the Reading railroad?
A. Well, there was sympathy on both sides, evidently; and during the day, on Monday, I am inclined to think, quite a number of the people sympathized with the strikers, rather than with the railroad company.
Q. You say on both sides. Now, I would like to know what you mean by both sides?
A. I mean the Reading Railroad Company and the dismissed engineers of the road.
Q. Then, in your opinion, the sympathy of the people of Reading was with the employés of the Reading railroad in striking and destruction of property?