Q. Were you in the immediate vicinity, when the firing took place?
A. Yes; I suppose twenty or thirty yards—well I was at the guns at the time—five or ten yards away from them.
Q. Was General Pearson there?
A. I did not see him.
Q. Who was in command of the troops that came up—the Philadelphia troops—at that time?
A. General Pearson, I thought, was in command of the troops—he was in command.
Q. Was he present?
A. That I could not say.
Q. Was Brinton present?
A. Yes; all I know is—I was watching everything as close as I could—the general outline of thousands of people at the time, and I was trying to watch it as much as I could, to see how the thing was going to get on, and the first things I saw was the firing, when the stones were thrown.