Q. What did he tell you to do?
A. He told me to collect as many men as I could get.
Q. Of the force on duty?
A. There was no force on duty.
Q. From what source were you to collect them?
A. He told me to get as many men as I could get. He meant the office men. But they were only on duty at night, and at this time none of them were about except the chief of detectives, Mr. O'Mara, who was busy, I believe. I so reported to the mayor. I told him I could get a number of the men who were dropped from the rolls. He told me to go ahead and get them.
Q. How many of those men were there then?
A. I suppose there may have been twenty or twenty-five.
Q. You selected ten of them?
A. I thought that would be a sufficient number on account of what Mr. Watt had told me.