A. Standing there—a great many of them—but they were afraid to speak or to do anything for fear of getting hurt—those that felt like stopping it. A good many were arrested. I saw the "black maria" very busy taking men down to the station-house, and I asked the policemen how many were arrested, and they said one hundred and thirty or one hundred and forty, for stealing, and in the morning I asked a man what they did with them, and he said that the mayor had fined them three dollars and costs, and let them go. I said they were all thieves, and he said that nobody was there to identify the property. I said it was not necessary to identify stolen property.
Q. Did he get the three dollars out of them?
A. That is what the policeman said—three dollars and costs.
Q. He did not let them go until he got that?
A. That is what he told me.
By Senator Yutzy:
Q. What time was the round-house set on fire?
A. About seven o'clock in the morning.
Q. How was it fired?
A. From cars on the Allegheny Valley railroad.