Q. Did you move down to Twenty-eighth street with the sheriff, ahead of the militia?
Q. You formed one of the sheriff's posse?
A. About eighteen. There may have been more.
A. No; some of them had revolvers. I had one.
Q. What took place at Twenty-eighth street?
A. There was quite a large crowd of people there--rioters.
A. Talking, and hallooing, and making a great noise.
Q. Had they begun to destroy property in any way?
A. Not when we went there--at least not when I was there.
A. The sheriff advised them to disperse and go home.
A. Nothing but vile language, and throwing stones, and brickbats, &c.
Q. Were those stones thrown at the sheriff's posse or at the militia?
A. Promiscuously--all around in that neighborhood.
Q. Did they hit any of the sheriffs posse?
Q. How many shots were fired before the militia fired?
Q. To what extent were the missiles thrown?
A. There was quite a shower of stones and brickbats.
Q. Was any command given to the militia to fire?
A. Not that I heard. I heard the command to charge bayonets, but no command to fire.
Q. Was the command to charge bayonets obeyed?
Q. Did they drive them as long as they continued to charge?
Q. And drove them as far as they desired to?
A. I presume so, just at that time. Quite a number of the crowd--several of them--tried to take the muskets out of the hands of the soldiers.
Q. How did the firing by the militia commence--was it one shot--one shot or a volley?
A. One shot, and then another shot, and then two or three shots every second.
Q. What effect did that have on the crowd?
A. It drove them away for the time being.
A. In different places down below Penn street and up on the hill.
Q. Did the crowd assemble between the depot and where the militia were then stationed?
A. After the firing was over, probably three quarters of an hour, I came in Penn avenue.
A. When the firing commenced we were standing immediately in front. It was too warm to stand there very long.
Q. Did the firing disperse the sheriff's posse, too?
A. Yes; it was a rather peculiar place to stand there.
Q. Do you know how many were killed there that evening?
Q. Had you any knowledge of any pre-arranged purpose among those men to strike on that day?
A. I had not--only what you might judge from the crowds gathering there occasionally, at the corners, and on the railroad tracks, and different places.