Q. Some of the crowd were gathered there out of curiosity?
A. I would have them all around the engine. It was a regular hum, just like bees—everybody seemed to be talking.
Q. Was there any general expression against the soldiery?
A. I believe there was, after they fired on the mob. I believe some classes of men had a feeling against the soldiers, but I believe the better class of citizens had not.
Q. You say the soldiers could have cleared the tracks and dispersed the mob, when they came out of the round-house?
A. They could—if they had opened with the Gatling guns, there would not have been a soul in sight for fifteen squares.
Q. Do you know whether the officers of the soldiery in the round-house had any communication with anybody outside, during the night?
A. I don't think they had, to my knowledge.
Q. None of them were passing back and forth, between the round-house and outside?
A. That I cannot say. I was not close enough to it.