Q. You never examined the record?
A. No, sir; I never examined it because it was a trifling matter compared with other things that had to be done, and I paid no attention to it.
Q. Had you any intimation from any source prior to the appearance of Mr. Watt on Thursday at your office of an outbreak among the railroad employés?
A. No, sir; but on the contrary, I happened to know from the president of the Trainmen's Union that when he was told that, eleven o'clock that day, he disputed the accuracy of the statement. He knew nothing of it, but when he was assured in such a way that he thought there must be something in it, he left the corner of Eleventh and Liberty streets for Twenty-eighth street, to know what the facts were. He himself did not believe it.
Q. You had no reason at all to anticipate anything of the kind?
A. No; I never dreamed that there would be an outbreak such as there was.
Q. That there would be a strike at all on the railroad?
A. Oh, no; had no idea of it at all. I very seldom come in contact with railroad men.
Q. In the conversations that you had with the men who went out in the Twelfth ward, did they give you any reasons for the outbreak and the strike?
A. No, sir; never entered into a critical examination of the question there at that time.