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This was just Packy's story to me after I got there. Packy told me on the telephone that the employers were thinking of calling in the state police. That was what they were going to ask for - to bring the state police into Rome to put down the strike because they were milling around the streets. I said, “Well, Mr. Downey, I'll probably be going to Rome tomorrow. I'll take the Empire tonight. You get on at Albany. I'll meet you at Rome in the morning. The train stops at 5:30 or something like that and I'll meet you there.”

I went up, thinking just to look around and hear from Packy and Johnny Flynn what went on. As I took the train, I bought a late evening paper and I read that there had been a riot in Rome the day before and that one Spargo's automobile had been turned over on its side. Spargo had shot a gun off into the crowd. Somebody got hurt. In the ensuing excitement Spargo had taken to his heels and had run across the bridge. Thereupon the drawbridge had been lifted so that Spargo was on the other side of the drawbridge. There was quite a riot. The police had had to come and quiet them down. Anyhow Spargo got home and got out of it. I read that before I went to bed. That was a pretty piece of news.

I told the porter to call me in the morning. When I got up I found the train conductor as well as the Pullman