A. Many of them looked like laboring men. Most of them were young men, reckless young fellows, half drunk, and of a class you would call roughs, which you will find always around cities and places where there is anything going on, you don't know who they are—they appeared to be all young men.
Q. From the works about the city?
A. They might have been; I don't know. I couldn't recognize them.
By Senator Yutzy:
Q. Didn't one recognize and call to you "Doctor, get down from that?"
A. They knew me well enough—these men knew me well enough.
By Mr. Lindsey:
Q. Told you to get down from there, and said they were going to burn that car?
A. Yes; they had made up their minds to burn the depot.
Q. Did he say that?