Q. What would be your plan in such a case?
A. I would have policemen to do it. I don't think the policemen would create such a truculent feeling as an arrest by the use of military.
Q. You think then that the police are the proper force to use on such occasions?
A. Until you ascertain you can do nothing with them, until all other means have failed, and then, and not till then, are the military to be used.
Q. Did you attempt at any time on Sunday to gather your police force in a body so as to have an organized force large enough to accomplish something?
A. I could not get any force on Sunday large enough.
Q. You got fifteen—you say there was fifty or sixty policemen—did you undertake to gather that body?
A. I did not say there was fifty or sixty policemen. I am talking now about the night before.
Q. I think the question was asked you how many there was about there on Sunday?
A. I could not tell how many were there. I know only a small body of them could be got together, and then they began to collect the men who had went home in the morning before we knew that the soldiers had been withdrawn—they began to gather in before dark—then we had a pretty good force, and then with such assistance as citizens gave, we broke the back of the riot—we knocked them right and left.