Q. Who had called the meeting that appointed you a committee?
A. The notice I received and read from the pulpit was signed J. I. Burnett, but his name was crossed out, as though he desired it to be impersonal—written hurriedly on a piece of paper with a pencil. I announced, at the time, that "this notice comes to me without signature, and I am unable to say in whose name it is."
Q. Was that read in the pulpit of the churches pretty generally?
A. I am not advised as to that.
Q. At what hour?
A. At the close of the service.
Q. Morning service—that would be about twelve o'clock?
A. Yes; about twelve o'clock.
Q. How large was the gathering of the citizens at the meeting?
A. I came just at its close, but I suppose, from the area they occupied in the street, that it was from one hundred and fifty to two hundred.