Q. Did they get fifty more policemen that they called for?
A. No, sir. Wait a moment, and I will prove to you that at supper time—after supper—they sent word from the outer depot to the inner depot that they would not furnish transportation to the policemen that went there—they had enough, and they did not want any more.
Q. You did not send them the fifty policemen?
A. I do not know anything at all about it. They got all they wanted.
Q. Now, in not getting them, they called upon the sheriff?
A. No, sir. I will prove to you they got all they wanted. They said they wanted no more, and they would not furnish transportation to the men at the Union depot; but if these men wanted to go they would have to walk.
Q. They did not get the fifty policemen. You have stated they sent for fifty policemen, and they did not get them?
A. I do not know that they sent for fifty policemen, but I have a moral conviction they sent for more men. How many I do not know. It may have been fifty. I have a moral conviction that more men were sent to them than they wanted, for they said so. Whether it was fifty men, I do not know. I do not think it was fifty.
Q. You were not at your office, and did not receive that dispatch calling for fifty men?
A. I was not at the office from quarter to five in the afternoon until eight in the evening. From eight in the evening I was there all night.