Q. What were they arrested for?
A. For having goods in their possession—cloth, and everything they could get hold of.
Q. Did you take them before the mayor?
A. Before Acting-Mayor Butler.
Q. What did he do with them?
A. Some of them were dismissed, and some were sent to jail, and some were fined.
Q. Some were dismissed?
A. Yes.
Q. Why?
A. That I cannot tell you.