By Senator Reyburn:
Q. The soldiers had no means of knowing that the crowd had become dispersed, or weakened, or drunken?
A. I don't think they had. I think the soldiers thought the whole community was against them. If they had known that they could have come out, and drove the mob down, I think they would have done it.
By Senator Yutzy:
Q. Officer Coulston has testified, that the round-house was not on fire where the troops came out—that he went through the building. Could he have gone through those buildings soon after the troops evacuated them?
A. He couldn't. He might have gone into the carpenter shop, or the paint shop, but the flames were coming out of all the windows of the round-house. Nobody could have lived there.
By Senator Reyburn:
Q. Could a man have got on to the engines as they stood in the stalls?
A. He might, in one part by the carpenter shop, but I don't think he could have lived in any part of it, on account of the heat.