Q. Did they offer to become responsible for the payment of the additional police?
A. When?
Q. Friday, Saturday, or Sunday?
A. I never heard of it at all. I never heard any such an offer made. The committee of public safety afterwards agreed to pay a certain number of men on the police force from that time until the end of the year.
Q. When did they make that proposition?
A. I think Monday, Tuesday, or Wednesday, but it was after all the trouble had occurred, so far as I know anything of it.
Q. You know nothing of any such offer having been made on Friday, Saturday, or Sunday?
A. No.
Q. Were you with the mayor during those days?
A. Off and on, Friday and Saturday. On Sunday I was at the central station until twelve o'clock, noon. We had about one hundred and twenty-five prisoners there Sunday morning, and it took all my attention until noon that day to get through with the business.