A. No; I couldn't say that.
Q. My question was simply this: that I wanted to know if the citizens of the city of Reading were in sympathy with the strikers, or the discharged employés of the Reading road?
A. I should say no; although they had a good many to sympathize with them here in the city.
Q. Well, then, Mr. Goodhart, were they simply discharged employés of the Reading road that participated in this destruction of property?
A. That question I cannot answer, because, as I stated before, I don't know any of the engineers of the road now.
Q. Did there appear to be any tramps or any strangers connected with this party who were with the engineers or employés of the Reading road?
A. So far as I know they were all strangers to me, and I have very little hesitation in saying, that a good many of them were strangers, coming here from a distance.
Q. From a distance and from other sections of the country?
A. Yes, sir. I think a number of them were strangers, not citizens of the place, nor had they been in the employ of the Reading Railroad Company.
Q. To your knowledge, do you know whether or not, the mayor of the city of Reading ordered out his police to suppress these rioters?