Q. Did you have any difficulty in getting the men you wanted?
A. I gathered them in about five minutes. I just asked for ten, and got them.
Q. Was anything said between Mr. Watt and the mayor about the pay of the men?
A. Mr. Watt told me he would pay the men.
A. I do not know. I told him these men are not on the force, but we could gather them up if he agreed to pay them.
Q. State what occurred from the time that they went away--whether any report was made to you or not?
A. I understood about the trouble. McGovern told me about arresting this party after he came back.
Q. Was any report made to you of what occurred?
A. I had a conversation with him after he came back.
Q. What did he state to you when he came back?
A. He told me he had arrested that party--that Mr. Watt went to turn the switch, and somebody hit him, and he arrested him, and put him in the Twelfth ward station-house. Information was afterwards made against some ten parties.
A. I think on Thursday afternoon, after this arrest.
Q. In whose hands were the warrants placed?
A. They were given to me first. A lawyer in Mr. Hampton's office was here. He had them drawn up. I gave the warrants to McGovern. On account of the excitement we proposed to locate the parties in their houses, and to get them there. But the next morning a young man in Hampton's office came in and told me not to make the arrests until further orders. I thought then that the men were going to work, perhaps. I then told McGovern not to make the arrests.
Q. Do you state you told McGovern not to arrest the men, but to get them at their houses?
Q. How many policemen do you think you could have gathered up that afternoon for duty?
A. I have no idea how many. A good many of them were about there just at the time that Mr. Watt came in and said he wanted some. We might have gotten thirty then. More went out afterwards.
A. I do not know. But I understood, however, more men were wanted, and they were sent out.
Q. These men that were picked up--these men that had been dropped from the rolls, did they go out on the ground in uniform, or did they go out in citizen's dress?
A. I guess some in uniform and some in citizen's dress. I cannot say whether they were in uniform or not.