A. Yes.
Q. You knew what was necessary for you, as sheriff, to do before calling the militia?
A. Well, any citizen can call on the Governor for aid—any responsible party.
Q. But you knew what was necessary for you to do as sheriff?
A. I think I did. I might have been mistaken.
Q. You thought that you laid sufficient ground for calling on the Governor, did you?
A. Yes; this riot had assumed such proportions at that time—it had gone so far, and such a crowd was there, of all the rough elements of society, that no posse, raised inside of three or four days—and then it would have had to be collected from all parts of the county—could have removed it.
Q. How large was the crowd that night?
A. Well, I cannot tell you that, because the cars not loaded with freight, as I said before, were all occupied. Some had four or five in, and some ten or twelve in. I cannot tell how many cars were full. At Twenty-eighth street, I judge that a thousand persons were there at that time, and all along, from Union depot to Twenty-eighth street, they were scattered.
By Mr. Larrabee: