A. I would take it that it was one of those livery stable rigs.
Q. A hack?
A. Yes, one of those carriages. It was not a private carriage. I do not
know any other facts.
By Senator Yutzy:
Q. Where were you during Sunday, during the burning of the property
there and rioting?
A. I was on the hill--I was on Grant street, and different places
during the day. Went to church in the morning, and then in the
afternoon I was among the rioters.
Q. Were you near the scene of the riot?
A. Yes, sir.
Q. What kind of people appeared to be engaged in this riot?
A. They appeared to be foreigners, and I must say that looking at them,
and being among them, I could not recognize one face.
Q. You speak of foreigners. You mean not living in this vicinity?
A. Yes, sir; and I saw some Germans, but the burners were Irish--a few
negroes, but very few.
Q. Did you have any conversation with many of those people?
A. Yes; talked with them some.
Q. Did you remonstrate with any of them for the rioting?
A. Yes; talked of the impropriety of what they were doing. I was
stationed at the last part of the riot at Grant street, when the
elevator was burning. There were a great many there. I had some talk
with people there. I was struck by one--it was an Irishman that struck
me.
Q. How did it happen--how did he come to strike you?
A. I was just in the street there, and he struck me.
Q. Without any provocation?
A. Without any provocation at all.
Q. What did he say?
A. He damned me.
Q. Give any reasons for striking you?
A. No reasons at all.
Q. Was it for remonstrating with him?
A. No; I was not talking with him. I was standing in the street,
talking to another man, and he came along, and I believe he jostled
against somebody, and his hat went off, and I heard him command some
one to take up his hat, and I paid no attention to it. The gent I was
talking to, said we had better get away from here. He stepped in the
street and went away, and this fellow made a pitch at me, and struck
me.
Q. Without assigning any reason?