Q. Where do you reside?
A. I reside in the Nineteenth ward, city of Pittsburgh.
Q. What is your profession?
A. Practicing law.
Q. State whether you were at or in the vicinity of the elevator on the 22d of July last, about the time it was burned?
A. I was, sir.
Q. What time did you arrive at that place?
A. I arrived there just about the time that the fire was taking hold of the elevator.
Q. Just about the time the fire was taking hold of the elevator?
A. Just about the time the inside of the elevator——