A. I cannot remember the date. I told you I thought it was Thursday evening or Friday; that would be the 19th or 20th. * * * * * John J. Davis, _sworn with the uplifted hand_: By Mr. Lindsey: Q. Where do you reside? A. No. 114, Sixteenth street, on the south side. Q. What was your business in July last? A. I was clerk to the chief of police. Q. Where were you on the 19th day of July--Thursday? A. At the mayor's office, and at the railroad. Q. State if you have any knowledge of the disturbances that occurred? A. I was not at the railroad during the time of the disturbances. Q. Did you receive information of them? A. We got a second dispatch, or rather a young man came from the ticket office asking for fifty men. I was present in the office at the time. Q. What time did you receive that dispatch? A. Between twelve and one o'clock. Q. By whom was it signed? A. I cannot say now. It was brought by a young man at the ticket office? Q. You mean the railroad ticket office? A. Yes, sir. Q. Asking for fifty men? A. Yes, sir. Q. To whom was it addressed? A. To the mayor. I started out and hunted up all the men I could find, and during my progress I saw the mayor, and he gave me orders to hunt up all the men I could, both the old men and the men that had been dropped. I met him on Fifth avenue. Q. Did you inform him of the dispatch? A. I did, and he ordered me to hunt up all the men I could possibly find. Q. How many did you get? A. In the neighborhood of twenty-five or twenty-eight that afternoon. I can not say exactly. Q. What did you do with them? A. Some went out on a train, and some walked out. I went out with one squad, with Mr. White. We saw Mr. Watt, and he suggested the sending of the men to Torrens station, six or eight of them; the balance of them stayed at Twenty-eighth street. Q. What time did you meet the mayor on Fifth avenue? A. I suppose five minutes after the dispatch came. I started out and went down to the station-house to see if any officers were there, but I found none there. I then went two squares, and on my way coming back, I met the mayor on Fifth avenue. It was not over five or ten minutes. Q. You informed him about the dispatch calling for fifty men? A. Yes, sir. Q. Where was he during the rest of that afternoon? A. As I stated before, I went to Twenty-eighth street, and stayed there all that afternoon. Q. Did you have any communication with him that afternoon? A. No; everything was quiet at Twenty-eighth street that afternoon. My instructions were to communicate if anything was wrong. I went to Torrens station about four o'clock. Quite a crowd was there. Q. What was the crowd doing? A. They were watching to see if any trains would go out. It was curiosity. Q. How many were there? A. One hundred or one hundred and fifty, while I was there. Q. Of whom was this crowd composed?