Q. What prevented you from drawing?
A. Well, I thought it is his reception that might have a bad feeling on the city of Chicago, giving him a reception like that; I thought I might have plenty of chance to get at him later on if it wouldn't be just at the reception.
Q. Let me understand you what prevented you from drawing.
A. I says because it was the reception—— There was so many people receiving him and I suppose the city of Chicago would like to give him a decent respectable reception. It would look awful bad if at the reception he would have got shot down, I says to myself that wouldn't go, I might get a better chance.
Q. You knew there was a death penalty in Illinois?
A. No, sir; I never knew anything like that.
Q. How near were you to him when he passed you that morning at the La Salle?
A. How near? It was on the other side of the street.
Q. Is that the nearest you got to him?
A. Yes.