Q. Did you have any further connection with the movements of the police? A. Not in the capacity of commander or leader. Q. Were you present at any of the disturbances after that? A. I went through it all, backward and forward, around the city, in the capacity of an officer. Q. Were the police, to your knowledge, reinforced in the morning of the 20th--Friday morning. A. No, sir; the police force was not reinforced until Tuesday morning--the following Tuesday--that is, were not organized. Then the regular force was filled up and organized by the committee of safety. But a number of the men who were called on on Monday and Sunday responded. But the regular organization did not take place until Tuesday. Q. They responded whenever the calls were made? A. A number of them responded on Sunday, after the fire was going on. Q. Was there any difficulty, so far as you know, in reinforcing the police force? A. I know, from my own experience, that there was considerable difficulty in bringing the men dropped from the rolls when there was no trouble,--in bringing them to the front after the trouble commenced. A great many of them objected to going on duty. Q. Why? A. I suppose they looked on it in this way. I inferred this from the tone of their conversation--that they were discharged--that the councils had thought proper to dispense with their services when there was no trouble, and that, when they were in trouble they did not propose to put their heads into the halter. I know one of them left my squad--or two of them. One of them did not reflect that he might be taken to where he would get hurt or get hit with a stone. He left and the other left. Q. What reason did he give? A. He simply left. By Senator Reyburn: Q. These men were not organized at all? A. They had been dropped from the rolls the week previous. They were not bound in any way to the city. By Senator Yutzy: Q. Did not a demand have to be made on them? A. No, sir; I simply told them. Those that wanted to go, fell into line, and marched out as volunteers. By Mr. Means: Q. They could leave as soon as they wanted? A. Yes; the same as any other citizens. They were not under pay--not under pay at all. By Senator Yutzy: Q. Did you not have the right from the mayor to demand them to go with you? A. I did not know I had a right any more than I could command you to assist me. By Mr. Lindsey: Q. Did you get such instructions from the mayor? A. At the time we went out we did not expect any such trouble. Q. But did the mayor give you instructions to demand them to go with you? A. He did not think of it, and I did not either. I thought that the presence, as Mr. Watt told me--that the presence of five or six men would have the desired effect. Q. Did you make any report to the mayor, during the afternoon? A. I reported to the chief of police. Q. That is the only report you made? A. Yes, sir. Q. Who was he? A. Philip Demmel. By Senator Yutzy: