A. I think the mayor handed me this dispatch.
Q. Did he make any call for a posse of police?
A. No; no more than telling me to do as I did—to see if I could get the men.
Q. Did he tell you how the men were to be paid?
A. I do not know. That was one objection with these men. They wanted to know about their pay, and whether it was going to be a regular thing. I could not satisfy them about that, and they did not care much about going.
Q. You just went around and hunted up the men that would go voluntarily of their own accord?
A. Yes; after getting this report from the Twelfth ward station-house. We thought that fifty men would hardly be necessary anyhow; but we could not have raised them if we had wanted them.
By Senator Yutzy:
Q. Could you not have got them if you had commanded them?
A. We could not command them any more than I could command you.