SCRANTON, _March 30, 1878_.
The committee met, pursuant to adjournment, at four, P.M. All members
present except Mr. Dewees.
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John Mucklow, _sworn_:
By Mr. Lindsey:
Q. Where do you reside?
A. Down at Greenwood.
Q. How far from here?
A. They call it three miles.
Q. What is your business?
A. Working in the mines.
Q. Were you at home on the 1st day of August last.
A. Yes, sir.
Q. Had the miners been at work up to that time?
A. I believe not, sir.
Q. What time did they quit work?
A. I could not tell exactly. They had not worked for a week or
so--nearly a couple of weeks, for all I know.
Q. Were they on a strike?
A. Our men did not strike at all. Our men were all working, and stopped
for want of cars.
Q. Stopped because there were no cars to carry the coal away?
A. Yes. Our men did not strike at all. Did not hear a word about
striking among our men.
Q. Do you know where Isaac B. Felts lives?
A. I guess he lives over in Taylorville.
Q. Do you know where his store is?
A. Yes, sir; his store is right opposite my house.
Q. Opposite your house?
A. Yes, sir.
Q. Do you know anything about its being broken into on the morning of
the 1st of August--some time after midnight, or before daylight?
A. Broken open between twelve and one o'clock that night--that morning.
Q. Did you hear the disturbance?
A. Yes, sir; saw it, too.
Q. Were you up?
A. I was up laying on my porch.
Q. How many men were there that broke into the store?
A. I could not tell. There might have been some twenty; may be thirty,
more or less. I could not say. It was moonlight.
Q. How did they get in. How did they break in. Give us a description?
A. I heard the first noise in the store. There was a crowd outside, and
the first noise I heard in the store, and then they opened the front
door to the store-room, and they went in there. There were some in the
store before that, because they opened the door.
Q. Did they break in the door or unlock it?
A. The door was broke in--shoved in.
Q. Did you hear them when they first came there?
A. Yes; I was lying on the porch.
Q. What class of men were they?
A. I could not tell anything about that.
Q. Where did they come from?
A. I could not tell. They came up the road. That is, going down towards
Pittston. They came up that way.
Q. Towards Scranton?
A. Came from towards Scranton. Towards Taylorville, the opposite side.
Q. What did they say?
A. Did not hear anything said, sir.
Q. Were they noisy?
A. No noise at all.
Q. Done quietly, was it?
A. Yes, sir.
Q. What damage did they do?
A. I could not state. I know they took goods away. I saw them carrying
goods away. Could not tell how much or how little.
By Senator Reyburn:
Q. What kind of goods?
A. I saw them carry boxes away, blue boxes, and other things.
Q. Was it store goods, groceries, or was it iron?
A. Carried every sort away. I guess we found everything of every kind
lying along through the woods and places afterwards.
Q. In what direction?
A. Right down towards the Lackawanna.