A. We have a police telegraph from each station-house. We send messages on it every day.
Q. There is no particular call by which you assemble your police?
A. There is no alarm.
By Mr. Lindsey:
Q. I want to ask the mayor a question in connection with his answer to this. He says he used all his powers in preserving the peace, so far as he could exercise them. Was there anything to prevent you from exercising your powers as mayor?
A. Yes; the ground had been occupied by the State military and the sheriff, and occupied in a way that it was utterly impossible for me to act with them.
Q. And it was the only thing that prevented you from exercising your powers?
A. I will say that there was a party went down to the depot—the Duquesne depot—Sunday afternoon, stating he was going to set it afire. That man was arrested by the police, assisted by some citizens, and taken to the lock-up.
Q. You know that there was an assemblage of men at or near Twenty-eighth street during the day, on Friday, don't you?
A. I presume there was, or Mr. Watt would not have come down there and asked for police?