Q. What did you find there?
A. I found a howling mob, many of them armed.
Q. Did you know that this firing was going on all this time between ten o'clock Thursday and ten o'clock Saturday night, when you went to the scene of the disturbance?
A. I knew nothing of the disturbance at all. I heard that the soldiers had fired upon the crowd.
Q. You knew that there were crowds there, didn't you?
A. Yes, sir.
Q. You knew they prevented freights from running?
A. I did not.
Q. You know that they prevented freight trains from going out?
A. No, sir; I believe the fact is otherwise. I believe the fact is that after the police got possession of a train, on Thursday afternoon, that the engineer deserted, and that the Pennsylvania Railroad Company didn't attempt to put another freight out—that is what I heard.