“How long did you wait?”—“About twenty minutes.”
“Then the meeting was opened?”—“It was.”
“And you listened to Spies?”—“Yes.”
“What did he say?”—“The substance of what he said was that the men had better go home, and not do any violence.”
(The witness confounds Spies and Parsons. The former, according to other witnesses, made no reference to Jay Gould, but Parsons did. The doctor said also that Parsons told the men that the history of strikes showed all strikes to have proved a failure; that what was wanted was a change in the system.)
“Did you see Fielden all the time he was speaking?”—“I did.”
“And he had no revolver?”—“He had not.”
“Did you keep your eye on him all the time?”—“Every minute.”
“You did not take your eye off him for a single minute?”—“Not half a minute.”