Q. When you got fifty policemen, did you make any effort with those policemen to drive the crowd from the cars that were burning?
A. No, sir; I did not.
Q. Your efforts were simply confined to arresting men that were carrying off plunder?
A. Yes, sir.
Q. Your policemen armed?
A. Some are and some are not.
Q. They are all armed with maces, I suppose?
A. Yes; they all have maces.
Q. Why didn't you make some effort to stop the burning?
A. Because, in my judgment, it could not be done.