Q. Were the passenger trains interfered with by the mob?
A. All were stopped at Twenty-eighth street, and the mob went through and examined each and every train for soldiers.
Q. And then allowed them to go on?
A. Sometimes it was a very serious question. If we had not had some engineers determined that they were going to try to get their trains through, they would have cut the passenger trains off and allowed nothing but mail cars to go.
By Mr. Means:
Q. On the 23d of July, did the sheriff not throw a guard around the burned district?
A. I was stationed then at Blairsville Intersection, and I cannot answer that question of my own knowledge.
Q. Then you do not know whether on or after the 23d day of July the railroad company could or could not have had entire control, if they had seen fit?
A. Most decidedly they could not, simply for the fact that they could not get beyond Lawrenceville station.
Q. But did not the sheriff throw a guard around the burned district?