A. I saw a portion of them come out of the entrance on Twenty-sixth street, and I think a portion of them came out of the rear end of the carpenter shop. I saw some twenty-five or thirty come out. * * * * * Thomas Hastings, _sworn with the uplifted hand_: By Mr. Lindsey: Q. What is your business? A. I not doing anything at present. Q. What were you doing in July last? A. I was a police officer. Q. What connection had you with the efforts to suppress the riot? A. I did everything, so far as I could, at that time. I didn't know much about it until Saturday evening. Our time for going on duty was eight o'clock in the evening. I went on at seven o'clock, and had orders from the lieutenant to go down and notify each tavern-keeper to close his saloon, at the request of the mayor. I did so, and we were distributed in the vicinity of Twenty-eighth street. There was a large crowd at Twenty-eighth street and Twenty-sixth street, and the crowd increased up to eleven o'clock. Q. What time did you receive orders to close the saloons? A. About seven o'clock in the evening. Q. In the vicinity of Twenty-eighth street? A. All along Penn street. I went up about eleven o'clock, and stayed looking around for a while at Twenty-eighth street, and then came down as far as Twenty-sixth street, and went back again, and just as I got at the corner of Twenty-eighth and Penn streets I saw the fire, and I ran up Liberty street and saw a car of oil. I then ran down and pulled the alarm, and just as I pulled the alarm I was thrown out in the street. Just then the mayor passed me, and asked me what the car was, and I told him it was a car of oil. He asked me if I pulled the alarm, and I said yes. I didn't see any engine coming. I went down then to the Twelfth ward station-house, and I asked the captain if he had pulled the alarm, and he said he had tried to, but couldn't. I then went down a little piece, and saw an engine and the Independence hose carriage standing at Twenty-fourth or Twenty-fifth street. Somebody made a remark that they would not let them come up any further--that they had threatened to shoot them. I stayed around there all that night, and on Sunday morning, after the Philadelphia troops left---- Q. Did you see the Philadelphia troops come out of the round-house? A. I saw what they called the Philadelphia troops. Q. Where did they come out? A. They were in this round-house and in the carpenter shop. They appeared to come out of the west end of the carpenter shop. Q. On to what street? A. On to Liberty, and then down Twenty-fifth street to Penn. Some were deployed as skirmishers, at the head of the column. They appeared to be pretty well frightened. Q. Were they marching in good order? A. Yes; but they appeared to be pretty well scared. Q. They marched regularly, did they? A. Yes. Q. Was any attack made on them?