A. Not materially. Q. Were any pistols fired? A. Yes. Q. How many shots were fired before the militia fired? A. There may have been five or six. 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? A. Yes. Q. Did they drive back the crowd? A. A very short distance. Q. Did they drive them as long as they continued to charge? A. Yes; they cleared the tracks. 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. A rattling volley? A. Yes. Q. Was it regular? A. Yes. Q. What effect did that have on the crowd? A. It drove them away for the time being. Q. Where did they assemble afterwards? 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. I don't know. Q. What became of you? A. After the firing was over, probably three quarters of an hour, I came in Penn avenue. Q. Did the posse remain together? 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? A. I don't know the exact number now. 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. By Senator Yutzy: Q. Was there any talk of striking among those men that gathered in crowds before the strike? A. Yes; you could hear a great deal of talk about a strike, but nothing was said as to the time when it was going to take place. Q. How long before this strike? A. On Tuesday and Wednesday. By Mr. Lindsey: Q. Who was the talk among? A. Among the laboring classes--among the men that worked in the mills, and the glass houses, &c., and railroad men. Q. Did you hear it before the news of the strike on the Baltimore and Ohio railroad? A. No. Q. It was not until after that that you heard talk of striking? A. No. Q. Prior to that you had heard nothing that would lead you to believe there was an organization for the purpose? A. No. Q. That was the subject of conversation, I suppose, among all classes--to some extent? A. Yes; it was. * * * * *