Q. What is your business at the present time?
A. I am a book-keeper in the Exchange National Bank.
Q. How long have you held that position?
A. About twelve years.
Q. Are you a member of the National Guard?
A. I am Colonel of the Eighteenth regiment.
Q. How long have you held that position?
A. Since 1874. I think my commission dates 1874.
Q. Just state to us now what orders you received, and when you first received them, and from whom, in relation to the riot last summer?
A. Well, on Friday morning, about half past four o'clock, I was awakened by a knock, and received an order, a telegraphic order, from General Pearson, informing me that by orders of the Governor, my regiment was ordered out for service, and ordered me to report at seven o'clock, at the Union Depot hotel. I have one company whose head-quarters is at East Liberty, where I reside, some five miles out. I notified them by hunting up the captain, and then came into town, sent off, the best way I knew how, to get my officers together, and notified them. They notified their subordinate officers, and assembled the regiment. It was too late to get any orders in the newspapers, they had all gone to press. It was too early to find messengers, and the work had to be all done by carrying messages from man to man, by the corporals and sergeants of companies. My command was ready at half past eleven o'clock, and by a little after twelve I was at the Union Depot hotel.