A. I am a citizen of Pittsburgh, and here along with the rest of them, am bound to say that the newspapers pretty fairly reflected the public sentiment in what they said. If you wish to see what it was, instead of asking my opinion, owing to my relation with the railroad company, if you will take the editorials of the various morning and evening newspapers from the 19th of July, from the day on which this thing occurred, down until some days after the actual firing occurred, I think you will find that the editors evidently tried to reflect the public sentiment, and I think they succeeded pretty well in doing it. If you wish to get that you had better ask the sheriff what responses the people made to him when he asked them to become part of his _posse_. I did not hear what was said, but the sheriff knows. By Mr. Lindsey: Q. Did the sheriff succeed in raising a _posse comitatus?_ A. He said to us in the Union depot he could not, and reported to me the next morning that he could not do it. By Mr. Engelbert: Q. Have you any knowledge whether the mayor tried to subdue the riot or assist the sheriff in trying to subdue the riot? A. I have not any personal knowledge of the mayor's action. Q. Was he in the city during the time, or not? A. Not to my personal knowledge, again. I did make one effort to have accomplished what I thought would have conduced somewhat to the public peace that afternoon, Saturday afternoon. That is the only fact within my own knowledge. About one o'clock, Saturday, seeing a large number of people attracted to the depot, and knowing that a large number of operatives were free from work that afternoon, I thought it a measure of precaution for the mayor to close the drinking saloons in the city. I drew up a paper, stating this fact, as politely as I could, and that paper was signed by Mr. Thaw and Mr. McCullough, officers of the company, and I took it over and had Secretary Quay and Adjutant General Latta sign it also, and then sent it up to the mayor, and the messenger reported to me that he had left it at the mayor's office in the hands of his chief clerk, I think he said; I never heard any more of it. By Mr. Lindsey: Q. Who was that messenger? A. His name I cannot give you, but I placed it in the hands of D. H. Rudy; he can give you the name of the messenger who sent it up. That is the answer that I got, that he left it in the mayor's office. What was done with it I do not know. By Mr. Engelbert: Q. Do you know whether he complied with it or not? A. I can only say that the drinking saloons were not closed, and I did not see any proclamation closing them. Q. So if you were not a citizen of Pittsburgh, do you suppose you would think that the mayor had done his duty, as an officer ought to, at that particular time? A. Being a citizen of Pittsburgh, I cannot put myself in the position of not being one. I will have to leave you to judge. By Mr. Lindsey: