Q. How many did they arrest?
A. I could not tell you. I suppose there may have been about a hundred.
Q. What was done with these men?
A. They were taken to the station-house, and Alderman Butler, I believe, who was in charge—I was not in charge for a week; I had something else to do—I believe they came to the conclusion that they could not be convicted of larceny, from not being able to identify what goods they had. All things were thrown together in the hurry of the moment, and they could not identify them nor the goods, and I believe they came to the conclusion that an action of larceny would not lie, and it would be troublesome to prove it, and he fined them.
Q. How many of them did he fine?
A. Indeed, I cannot tell. I never looked to see.
Q. Did he discharge any of them?
A. That I do not know. I had too much to do, to look after them.
Q. Was any record made of it?
A. Oh! yes; they have their names down in the watch-house docket.