A. Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday. I will give another little fact. This morning a lady came to my office, asking me to solicit transportation for her over the Pennsylvania railroad to Philadelphia. She wished to get a pass. I asked her why, and she said that she had a son living in Chester county who had come here and mixed himself in with the riots, and had laid out and slept out until he had got a cold, and that he now was dying with consumption, and she was poor, and wished me to solicit the Pennsylvania railroad company to give her a pass to go and see him before he died. She lives here, and her son is married and lives in Chester county. She lives nearly across the street from where I do. But I didn't know she had this son, though. Q. As soon as you returned on Thursday night from Twenty-eighth street, you telegraphed to the Governor? A. Yes, sir. Q. Had you become satisfied, then, that it was necessary to call out the troops? A. Yes, sir; I had. The riot had assumed--although there had been no actual outbreak, except the striking of Mr. Watt--had assumed such proportions then, that it would have been folly for me to attempt in this city to have got a posse to remove the crowd. I might, if I had had time, have got the rural districts of this county to assist me--I might have got a force there, but then it would have been a worse slaughter than what it was. But in this city it would have been folly for me to try it. I knew the feeling of the people. Q. Did you make any effort on Friday forenoon to raise a posse? A. I did not. I viewed it in this way. That, when I had called on the State authorities, and the State authorities had responded, that that relieved me of that responsibility of calling a posse. In fact, I considered the idea of a sheriff of any county calling out a posse almost as an obsolete piece of law to-day. The time was, when the military were under the control of the sheriff, but it is not so now. Q. Do you know what the law is in regard to calling out the militia to suppress a riot? A. I have read the acts of assembly. Q. You knew what they were? A. Yes. Q. You knew what was necessary for you, as sheriff, to do before calling the militia? A. Well, any citizen can call on the Governor for aid--any responsible party. Q. But you knew what was necessary for you to do as sheriff? A. I think I did. I might have been mistaken. Q. You thought that you laid sufficient ground for calling on the Governor, did you? A. Yes; this riot had assumed such proportions at that time--it had gone so far, and such a crowd was there, of all the rough elements of society, that no posse, raised inside of three or four days--and then it would have had to be collected from all parts of the county--could have removed it. Q. How large was the crowd that night?