Q. For the purpose of protecting trains going out?
A. No, sir; I didn't know that. I don't think I knew that.
Q. For what purpose were they assembled there, so far as you know?
A. I only knew about them from Mr. Watt, and what he told me, I have forgotten now.
Q. You have forgotten what he told you?
A. Yes, sir.
Q. Did you take any measures to ascertain what the purpose of the assemblage was?
A. I think Mr. Watt must have told me what it was, and I judge so. The first thing I heard after the police went there, was that a man had struck Mr. Watt.
Q. I want to know if you don't know that during the day on Friday, and during the day Saturday, there was a large assemblage of men at or near Twenty-eighth street?
A. I knew that by common report, and hearing the police talk.