A. Because they would be destroyed any way.
Q. You said you had no difficulty in getting citizens to volunteer and organize into bodies to assist in suppressing the riot or keeping the peace?
A. There was no riot in Allegheny.
Q. You said they were willing to organize?
A. They were very ready.
Q. Did the citizens generally express a willingness to go elsewhere, where there was riot or lawlessness besides in their own locality?
A. That question I do not think was brought up at all. I heard nothing of the kind mentioned. I know citizens of Allegheny, that they were in Pittsburgh, and took an active part in organizing to put down this riot.
Captain W. J. Glenn, being duly sworn, testified as follows:
By Mr. Lindsey: