A. You couldn't get a man to go after them—the great body of them—until night would come. You would get them just as soon by waiting until they came on duty.
Q. Didn't you have the address in your mind?
A. Yes; and knew where they lived. We had plenty to do without doing that.
Q. Any more important duty to perform than to get these men to assemble?
A. That would depend altogether upon what the man in charge thought. I thought the most important duty was to have the police up there—all we could get—and let them do what they could.
Q. Without calling on the night police?
A. If we had means of calling on the night force to gather them in, it would have been done, but, to do so, we would have had to abandon everything else for the time being. Possibly, that might have been as well, though. When I went to the corner of Seventh and Grant streets, I found the firemen playing there, and the police having charge of the ropes—keeping the crowd away from them.
Q. Did you employ all your powers during these riots, regardless of any other efforts adopted to subdue the riots, in preserving the peace?
A. What do you call during the riots?
Q. The time from Thursday until Sunday?