Q. Those were employés of what railroad?
A. The Pittsburgh, Port Wayne and Chicago road. They admitted their actions were contrary to law, and that they might be amenable, but still they asserted their assumed right to stop the running of trains until their demands were complied with.
By Mr. Lindsey:
Q. You say they asserted their right to stop the trains?
A. An assumed right. They supposed they had such a right. Some of them supposed, ignorantly, that they had such a right—a great many of them honestly believed that.
By Mr. Larrabee:
Q. Did they claim that they had any right to set themselves up against the authorities?
A. No; at no time; as they construed the laws of the Commonwealth, they did not want to set themselves up against them.
By Senator Reyburn:
Q. Do you know what the feeling was in this city when the strike broke out?