A. After the fire got started, it would have taken right smart, but before that I think that one hundred and fifty or two hundred men could have stopped the whole thing, because police can do more than soldiers.
Q. We have testimony that the police offered to give protection to one engine?
A. Let the police come up and name the engine. I saw that in the papers.
A. Motts and Goldsmith. They came out in the papers and said they went to one man named Kennedy, and told them that they would give protection, but I went and asked them, and they said that they never came to them at all.
A. Yes; I can have them at any time at all. I will fetch them to you. None of them came to me; and I am the proper person to come to for a purpose of that kind.
Q. You say that a couple of hundred or one hundred and fifty policemen could have driven the crowd back?
A. On Saturday, one hundred and fifty policemen, well armed, and staying together, could have moved the crowd away so that they could have moved the trains.
A. Not until Saturday night, when the alarm was given.
Q. On Saturday and Sunday morning, when you were there, were the police doing anything to prevent the pillaging?
A. After I came back from East Liberty, I saw the police arresting people for stealing. The "black maria" was busy taking them down to the station--the Twelfth ward station--and then running them down to the Central station.
Q. From what you saw, do you think it would have been possible for the police to have stopped it?
A. It would have been impossible for what was there to have stopped the mob. They could catch the people when carrying things off.
Q. Were you a witness before the grand jury?
A. No; this is the first time I have been called upon.
A. Yes; about the round-house. As soon as the soldiers went out of the round-house we went into service, and kept right on then. We could not go into service before, because they were firing both from the round-house and from the board-pile--the rioters.
Q. When the soldiers came out of the round-house, did they come out in ranks?
A. Yes. As soon as they came down on to Penn street, I noticed a squad on each side watching the houses and buildings and alleys, and the men with the Gatling gun were watching behind.