A. I believe that was about the way it worded, or something like that. I cannot say positively the exact wording of the telegram.
Q. I just want this for information?
A. Certainly, I understand, I will answer all questions.
Q. I just want to know this, that if there was an understanding—did you as an officer, in the absence of the mayor of the city of Reading, believe that there was an understanding between these rioters, in the city of Reading, and the city of Pittsburgh?
A. There may have been, but I do not know it. I have no knowledge of that at all. As regards any understanding between the parties here, and the parties in Pittsburgh, I do not know. The only reference I had in regard to the trouble in Pittsburgh, is, as I stated, that I believed that had it not been for the trouble there, the probability is, we might not have had any here, because the news coming here, seemed to stimulate the matter.
George S. Goodhart, recalled:
By Mr. Lindsey:
Q. State whether this is the testimony taken before you at the coroner's inquest held here in July last? [Indicating paper.]
A. It is; yes, sir; I took it down.