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If you are not located in the United States, you'll -have to check the laws of the country where you are located before using -this ebook. - - - -Title: Story of the Riot - -Author: Various - -Editor: Frank Moss - -Release Date: November 9, 2019 [EBook #60650] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK STORY OF THE RIOT *** - - - - -Produced by Martin Pettit and the Online Distributed -Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was -produced from images generously made available by The -Internet Archive) - - - - - - -STORY OF THE RIOT - -PUBLISHED BY - -THE CITIZENS' -PROTECTIVE LEAGUE - -PRICE, 25 CENTS - - - - -COPY OF AN APPEAL TO THE MAYOR. - - -NEW YORK, _September 12, 1900_. - -_TO HIS HONOR, ROBERT A. VAN WYCK, -MAYOR, NEW YORK CITY._ - -DEAR SIR: - -Your communication of the 7th inst. in reply to my letter received. -We appreciate the consideration shown and interest manifested, but -earnestly petition your Honor for a fair and impartial investigation. -We condemn in unqualified terms lawlessness among our people, and by no -means condone the crime of Harris, nor his associates; but this crime, -as black as it may be, does not justify the policemen in their savage -and indiscriminate attack upon innocent and helpless people. - -We ask for no money consideration, and our counsel, Hon. Frank -Moss, has been so advised. We are not responsible for what private -individuals may do--the rights of citizenship we value above money. - -We ask for the conviction, and removal from the force of those officers -whom we are able to prove guilty. - -We appeal to you, sir, as chief magistrate of this city, to give this -matter special personal attention. - -If the guilty are shielded it will encourage the mob to repeat the -same offense, the officers to commit the same deeds, and our people to -prepare for self-defense in spite of law or gospel. This can have no -other termination than bloodshed and butchery. - -This, I believe, may all be avoided by a course of simple justice. -The color of a man's skin must not be made the index of his character -or ability. From the many ugly threatening letters I have received I -feel that my own life is not safe, but I am unwilling to purchase it -by silence at the expense of my unfortunate race. We feel keenly our -position, and again appeal to you for common justice. - -I am, dear sir, - -Yours, - -W. H. BROOKS. - - - - -PERSECUTION OF NEGROES - -BY - -Roughs and Policemen, in the City of New York, August, 1900. - -STATEMENT AND PROOFS WRITTEN AND COMPILED BY FRANK MOSS AND ISSUED BY -THE CITIZENS' PROTECTIVE LEAGUE. - - -STATEMENT OF THE PERSECUTION. - -The riots and persecutions described in this pamphlet occurred mainly -in the 20th Police Precinct, which is under the command of Acting -Captain John Cooney, and within the jurisdiction of Inspector Walter -L. Thompson. Chief William S. Devery resides in the precinct, near the -scene of the disorder. - -The district has a large colored population, and mixed with it are many -dissolute and lawless white persons. - -On August the 12th last a Negro named Arthur Harris was with his wife -at 41st Street and 8th Avenue. He says that he left her to buy a cigar, -and when he returned he found her in the grasp of a man in citizen's -dress. This man was a police officer, named Robert J. Thorpe, who had -arrested her, as he claimed, for "soliciting." Harris says that he did -not know Thorpe was an officer, and that he attempted to rescue his -wife. The policeman struck Harris with his club, and Harris retaliated -with his penknife, inflicting a mortal wound, and then ran away. - -Thorpe was attached to the 20th Precinct, and was much liked by his -comrades. Policemen thronged his home, and his funeral, on August 16th, -was attended by Chief Devery, Inspector Thompson, and other officials. - -Harris, the murderer, had disappeared, and many policemen who were -interested in Thorpe were seized with a desire of vengeance on Negroes -generally. During the day of the funeral there were rumors of coming -trouble, and those colored people who have illicit dealings with the -police--keepers of gambling, disorderly, and badger houses--seeing -the signs of coming trouble, closed their places and kept off the -streets. Several officers told informants of mine that they were -going to punish the Negroes that night. There are numerous gangs of -rowdies in the district who are hostile to Negroes and friendly with -the unofficial powers that are now potent in police affairs. There was -an understanding between the forces that night that resulted in the -holding of the streets for hours by crowds of roughs who raced up and -down Broadway, 7th and 8th Avenues, and the side streets from 34th to -42nd Streets in pursuit of Negroes, and were not attacked by the police -except in one or two cases where they invaded Broadway hotels hunting -for colored men. - -The unanimous testimony of the newspaper reports was that the mobs -could have been broken and destroyed immediately and with little -difficulty. In many instances of brutality by the mob policemen stood -by and made no effort to protect the Negroes who were assailed. They -ran with the crowds in pursuit of their prey; they took defenseless men -who ran to them for protection and threw them to the rioters, and in -many cases they beat and clubbed men and women more brutally than the -mob did. They were absolutely unrestrained by their superior officers. -It was the night sticks of the police that sent a stream of bleeding -colored men to the hospital, and that made the station house in West -37th Street look like a field hospital in the midst of battle. Men who -were taken to the station house by officers and men in the station -house were beaten by policemen without mercy, and their cries of -distress made sleep impossible for those who lived in the rear of the -station house. - -Colored men being denied official protection, many of them obtained -weapons, and if they were found armed, or if revolvers were found in -their houses, then official brutality was redoubled. - -The tumult of August 15th was repeated on a smaller scale on the night -of the 16th, but public attention had been directed to the shameful -conduct of our "guardians of the peace," and the precinct swarmed with -reporters and sightseers. Then the dilatory officials speedily quelled -the riot and ended the punishment of the Negroes. - -In the courts many false charges were made by policemen; and although -some Negroes were discharged by the magistrates, others were convicted -and punished on the false testimony of their accusers. One magistrate -commented severely on the comparatively small number of white men that -were arraigned before him for rioting. - -Had a force of regular soldiers been sent to quell such a disturbance, -and had it failed so utterly and so long as did the police, and had the -soldiers abandoned their duty, and vied with the roughs in beating the -men whom they should have protected, undoubtedly some guilty privates -would have been punished--but the severest penalty would have fallen on -their incompetent or derelict commanders. The commanders in this case -were Acting Captain Cooney, Inspector Thompson, and Chief Devery. - -The newspapers told of the shocking outrage, and printed many specific -cases of cruelty, giving the addresses of the victims and the -circumstances of their persecution. By this and other means the Police -Commissioners and the Mayor were fully apprised of the facts. There -was no suspicion of politics in the universal demand that went up for -a prompt and efficient investigation and for the severe punishment -of the offenders. This request was unheeded, until the acting Mayor -called on the Police Commissioners to investigate the conduct of their -subordinates. The Commissioners delayed, knowing full well how such -cases deteriorate by delay, and after several weeks announced that they -would investigate. - -The colored people of the city, realizing their unexpected danger -as a race, and discovering the surprising unwillingness of the city -authorities to punish their assailants and to protect them in the -future, formed "The Citizens' Protective League." This society and -the Society for the Prevention of Crime and the City Vigilance League -communicated with the Mayor in writing and urged him to hold an -investigation or to direct the Commissioner of Accounts to hold one for -him. His answer was that the whole matter was in the hands of the Board -of Police. A number of Negroes who had been injured retained Israel -Ludlow, Esq., to bring suits against the city for damages inflicted on -them by the mob. He filed with the Police Commissioners the affidavit -of William J. Elliott, who had been clubbed in the station house. The -Police Board began its "investigation" by calling Elliott and his -witnesses on the 7th of September. The examination of witnesses was -conducted by the President of the Board, Bernard J. York, and, with the -approval of the Board, he refused to give subpoenas to Mr. Ludlow, and -refused to allow him or any other lawyer to examine or cross-examine -any witnesses, or to suggest any step to be taken. Elliott and all -other colored witnesses were examined by the President as hostile -parties, and their testimony was controverted by the policemen who -were called at once and were carefully nursed and led by him. Glaring -discrepancies and disagreements in their testimony were passed over in -spite of specific protests by Mr. Ludlow. The writer appeared on behalf -of the societies that had memorialized the Mayor, and filed a complaint -of inefficiency and neglect of duty against the Captain, the Inspector, -and the Chief of Police, and announced that he had much testimony to -offer on the specifications, but insisted on his right to examine -his own witnesses and to cross-examine the police witnesses. These -rights were emphatically denied, and the complaint was disdainfully -pigeonholed. - -The Protective League separately asked the Mayor for justice; he -responded that the whole matter was with the Police Board, and he -made the same response to Mr. Ludlow, who complained to him of the -farce that was being enacted at Police Headquarters. The hearing was -continued several days. Witnesses were examined superficially in eight -cases of cruelty by policemen, and were controverted by double the -number of policemen, and it was suddenly announced that the hearings -were closed. Claims of sixteen Negroes against the city were then on -file in the Comptroller's office, the names and addresses of many -more victims had appeared in the newspapers, and the writer had -announced that he had in his possession over forty affidavits of police -brutality. The "investigation" was a palpable sham. - -At this date not a single complaint has been preferred by the Chief, -the Inspector, the Captain, or the Commissioners against any police -officer for brutality or neglect of duty during the riots. - -On September 12th a great meeting was held at Carnegie Hall to protest -against the brutality and against the failure of the city authorities -to act, and to take measures for the prevention of such outbreaks in -the future. Fully thirty-five hundred people attended, and listened to -addresses by Rev. R. S. MacArthur, D.D., Rev. D. W. Cook, D.D., Rev. C. -T. Walker, D.D., Rev. W. H. Brooks, D.D., Rev. Bishop W. B. Derrick, -D.D., Miss M. R. Lyons, Hon. D. M. Webster. - -A subscription was started, and measures were taken to make the -Citizens' Protective League a permanent and a vital institution. - -The League and its representatives are using every possible lawful -measure to secure justice to its people, and to vindicate their right -to live in peace. They are having a difficult task to get a hearing. -Several cases have been brought by it in the Magistrates' Court, -but they are difficult to carry in the face of a solid and lusty -swearing lot of policemen, and they cannot show the crime in its mass, -and cannot reveal the responsibility of the higher officials for -the outbreak and for the failure to discover and punish the guilty -policemen and their commanders. - -The Mayor has abundant authority to hear the matter, but he has washed -his hands of it, and the Police Board has not hesitated to write -another page of its damning history. There is no other way open for -a full and connected presentation of the case to the public except -by legal process through the Mayor and the Commissioners. A Grand -Jury investigation was had, and resulted in no indictment. Such an -investigation is necessarily held behind closed doors, and the sole -question is whether there is sufficient evidence to warrant the -indictment of a specific individual for a specific act, unrelated to -other acts, and with a reasonable probability of conviction. - -I have advised the Citizens' Protective League of the great barriers -to be overcome in securing the conviction of even a patrolman, and of -the inadequacy of a criminal proceeding in an attempted presentation of -the great wrong that the Negroes have suffered. They need the sympathy -and support of the good people of New York to secure a vindication, and -to prevent a recurrence of the outbreak. Under my advice the appended -affidavits have been secured, and are now printed, so that they may -be read and considered in their relation to each other. I may say -that with hardly an exception the affiants have shown themselves to -be respectable, hard-working men and women. The dissolute Negroes who -are so often seen lounging about the "Tenderloin" and its neighborhood -are not to be found among the witnesses. They are the friends of the -police, contributing very largely to their comfort and happiness, and -it is quite clear that they had their warning and kept out of the way. - -With this simple introduction, I present the affidavits, confident -that they will speak for themselves, and that they will lead to the -condemnation of the high official criminals, and contribute to the -overthrow of the infernal system that they represent. - -Brutality and insolence of policemen have increased greatly, and the -Police Commissioners seldom, if ever, convict officers for these -offenses. Humble citizens of all races to-day are in more danger from -policemen's clubs than they are from the assaults of criminals. The -inaction of the Commissioners in the cases of the Negroes is entirely -consistent with their general conduct in all citizens' complaints. - -FRANK MOSS. - -Dated October 1, 1900. - - ---- - -_City and County of New York, ss._: - -P. A. Johnson, M.D., being duly sworn, deposes and says: I reside at -203 West 33rd Street, and am engaged in the active practice of my -profession at that address. On Thursday morning, August 16th, 1900, -about ten A. M., I heard a noise in the street, and going to -the window I saw a colored man trying to get into one of the flats -on the opposite side of the street. He failed, and went east to the -corner saloon, kept by a man Gallagher, and entered. After he went in -I noticed three policemen in the saloon. Almost immediately a mob came -down 7th Avenue. At the saloon they commenced to shout, "Bring him out, -we'll lynch him!" Several of the rioters went into the saloon, and in a -few minutes they came out again and formed in a semicircle, evidently -waiting for something. The police officers appeared with the colored -man, clubbing him unmercifully. They then shoved him into the mob. He -managed to get through them and ran down the street, and I heard him -shortly shouting for mercy, saying, "For God's sake don't kill me, I -have a wife and children." Deponent has been informed that two of the -officers ran down the street after him and knocked him senseless. - -P. A. JOHNSON. - -Sworn to before me this 10th day of September, 1900. - -GEO. P. HAMMOND, JR., Notary Public (164), N. Y. County. - - ---- - -_City and County of New York, ss._: - -Stephen Small, being duly sworn, deposes and says: I reside at the -northwest corner of 7th Avenue and 34th Street. On Wednesday evening, -August 15th, 1900, I went to the home of a sick brother on Lexington -Avenue, and started then to go to my lodge on 29th Street near 7th -Avenue, and had reached 8th Avenue and 41st Street, opposite Driggs' -saloon, when two officers jumped on the car. One hit me on the head -with his club, and the other struck me in the eye with his club. A -white man interfered, and the police desisted. I stayed on the car, -and when we had gone a little further the mob boarded it and attacked -me. The car had quite a number of women in it, who began to scream, -and some of them told me to get under the seat, which I did, and it -proceeded down the avenue. I reached the neighborhood of Hudson Street -House of Relief, where the white gentleman who interfered in the first -instance took me, and where I had my head bandaged. I could not get -home that evening, and I remained in a cellar in 30th Street between -6th and 7th Avenues. The next morning I started to get home, and had -reached the corner of 32nd Street and 7th Avenue, when I was stopped by -an officer who wanted to know where I was going, and what weapon I had -on me. I told him I had nothing on me. He said, "You look as if you had -been in the scrap. They ought to have killed you; get out of here." As -he said this he struck me across the back with his club, and I yet am -unable to lay flat on my back without suffering extreme pain. Deponent -further states that he was perfectly sober and was not creating any -disturbance, and that the assault by the police officers was entirely -unjustified and an outrage. - -STEPHEN x SMALL. - his mark - -Sworn to before me this 11th day of September, 1900. - -GEO. P. HAMMOND, JR., Notary Public (164), N. Y. County. - - ---- - -_City and County of New York, ss._: - -Oscar Slaughter, being duly sworn, deposes and says: I reside at 225 -West 32nd Street. On Wednesday, August 15th, 1900, I boarded an 8th -Avenue car at 32nd Street, starting to go to my sister's in West 62nd -Street. I had got as far as 36th Street and 8th Avenue, when a mob -led by three or four police officers surrounded the car and jumped on -it. The police officers immediately commenced to club me. One of the -rioters shouted, "Pull him off and kill him!" The officers pulled me -off of the car and commenced to club me. They hit me on the head and -pulled me to the street. I was kicked and beaten while I lay there, -and after the mob had gone and I recovered somewhat I dragged myself -to 42nd Street and 6th Avenue, and from there I went to 32nd Street -between 6th and 7th Avenues. On my way there I attempted to go down -34th Street, but a white man met me and said, "Don't go down there, -you'll get killed." I then tried to go down 33rd Street, but a white -gentleman advised me not to go that way, as I would be killed, and -said that even if he went down there and did not join in he would be -jumped on. I then went to 32nd Street, where a number of colored men -had taken refuge in a hallway, and where I was advised to stay all -night. I stayed there a while and then took a chance in getting to my -home down the block, which I succeeded in doing. Deponent is informed -that an officer went into the aforesaid hallway after deponent had -left, and clubbed and beat a man who lived in the house, and took him -to the station house. Deponent declares that he was perfectly sober, -and was creating no disturbance whatever, and that the said assault was -entirely unjustified and an outrage. - -OSCAR SLAUGHTER. - -Sworn to before me this 11th day of September, 1900. - -GEO. P. HAMMOND, JR., Notary Public (164), N. Y. County. - - ---- - -_State of New York, City and County of New York, ss._: - -Joseph Frasier, being duly sworn, deposes and says: I live at 331 West -37th Street, New York City. On August 15th, at quarter past eleven in -the night, I was on my way to work on an 8th Avenue car going downtown. -A crowd rushed towards the car and yelled, "Lynch the nigger!" A -policeman who jumped on the car hit me on the head with his club and -knocked out a tooth and beat me on the arms, back, and body until I -was nearly senseless. The policeman asked me whether I wanted to go -to the station or to the hospital. I said I wanted to go to my work, -though the blood was running over my face so that I could hardly see. -A passenger helped me until I recovered slightly, and helped me on -another car and into a drug store, where I received aid. The street -was filled with a rough crowd, patrol wagon, and ambulance. The people -cried out from the windows, protesting against the beating, and called -out "Shame!" I was laid up for weeks, and am hardly able to walk now, -as I am still lame and sore. I work for Davenport, 94 Park Place, and -it was my duty to get to the stable about eleven o'clock to go to New -Jersey for produce. - -JOSEPH FRASIER. - -Sworn to before me this 11th day of September, 1900. - -STEPHEN B. BRAGUE, Notary Public (125), N. Y. County. - - ---- - -_City and County of New York, ss._: - -Adolphus Cooks, being duly sworn, deposes and says: I reside at No. -243 West 32nd Street, and work for the Anchor Steamship Company, foot -of West 24th Street, as a longshoreman. On Tuesday morning, August -14th, 1900, I went to work for the said company, worked all that -day, all that night, and until Wednesday night at 10:30 P. M.--39½ -consecutive hours. At the said hour I left the pier at the foot of -West 24th Street, and walked east on 24th Street, and when I reached -the northwest corner of 8th Avenue and 24th Street a white gentleman -advised me not to go up 8th Avenue, as there was a riot up there and -they were fighting "like he did not know what." I continued east on -24th Street until I reached the northwest corner of 7th Avenue and -24th Street, when I met another white man who advised me not to go -up 7th Avenue, as there was a riot in progress, and that they were -fighting at that time in the neighborhood of 41st Street and 37th -Street, but, thinking that I could get home in 32nd Street before the -riot could get down to that street, I started uptown on the west side -of 7th Avenue, and had reached the northwest corner of 7th Avenue and -28th Street, when I saw three officers coming down 7th Avenue. In the -meantime three other colored men, whom I did not know, had caught up -with me, and were walking behind me. I had gone about one hundred feet -north of the aforesaid corner when I saw the three officers break into -a run in our direction. I was grabbed by one of them, while the other -two chased the three men who had come behind us and overtook them and -clubbed them; the officer who had me immediately, without saying a -word, struck me on the body with his club; then between the blows he -said, "Get out of here, you black son of a b----!" One of the blows he -aimed at my head, but I threw up my arm and received the blow on it. -It was such a severe blow that I was lame in it for quite some days. I -escaped from him as soon as I could, and ran to 28th Street, and down -28th Street to No. 211. I ran into the hallway and out into the back -yard, where I stayed all night in fear of my life. The officer followed -me, and when I ran into the hallway he clubbed the colored people who -were on the front stoop, and drove them into the house. During the -heavy rainstorm Wednesday night and early Thursday morning I took -refuge in a small place that led into the cellar of the said house. -Thursday morning about six o'clock I ventured out and went towards the -dock at the foot of West 24th Street, where I intended to go to work -again, and had reached 8th Avenue between 25th and 26th Streets, when -I saw two police officers on the opposite side of the street, one of -whom started to run towards me, but his companion stopped him, and drew -him back. Deponent states further that if he had not been interfered -with and clubbed by the police officer he could have reached his home -in safety, and that he saw no signs of a disturbance, such as a large -crowd of people, as far as he could see up the avenue; that deponent -was watching for such signs by reason of his having been warned twice. -Deponent also declares that he can identify the officer who clubbed -him; that he knows him by sight, and that, about a month before the -said clubbing, the same officer had come to him at his home, where -he lived at that time, in West 28th Street, and had told him that -the roundsman had got him, and that he had given him as an excuse -that he was at the house where deponent then lived and was quelling a -disturbance there, and asked deponent to verify that statement if the -roundsman asked him. Deponent promised so to do, notwithstanding the -fact that nothing of the kind had occurred there, and promised to do -so simply to get the officer out of trouble. That the officer's first -name is "Joe," and that he is attached to the 20th Precinct. Deponent -further declares that he was perfectly sober, and that the assault by -the officer was unwarranted and an outrage upon a peaceable citizen. - -ADOLPHUS x COOKS. - his mark - -Sworn to before me this 4th day of September, 1900. - -GEO. P. HAMMOND, JR., Notary Public (164), N. Y. County. - - ---- - -_City and County of New York, ss._: - -Eugene Porter, being duly sworn, deposes and says: I reside at 202 -West 49th Street. On Wednesday, August 15th, 1900, between the hours -of nine and ten P. M., I was walking uptown on the west side -of 7th Avenue, on my way home. Everything about the neighborhood was -quiet. There were no signs of a disturbance, and I had not heard of -any trouble between the colored people and the white folks. I had -reached a point about one hundred feet north of 37th Street on 7th -Avenue, when I met a group of policemen, about six or eight in number. -One of them said to me, "What are you doing here, you black son of -a b----?" and without waiting for an answer struck me over the head -with his club, felling me to the sidewalk, and continued to strike me -about the body. I struggled to my feet, and implored the officers to -spare my life, but they continued to club me and left me unconscious -on the sidewalk. When I came to I arose to my feet and crawled home. -After I reached home I got my young son to accompany me to the New -York Hospital, where my wounds were dressed by Dr. Kenyon, of the -Hospital Staff, who put fourteen stitches in my head. Deponent states -further that he is troubled to this day with his head, as a result of -the injuries received at the hands of the police, and he fears that it -may yet seriously interfere with his following his business. Deponent -states further that he is engaged in the business of horse and dog -clipping, and that he can refer to the following-named persons for whom -he has done work at various times: E. S. Odell, proprietor of the -Saratoga Stables, 690 Madison Avenue, who has known him from infancy. -Dr. H. D. Gill, Veterinary Surgeon, 57th Street and 2nd Avenue. G. W. -Lynch, Morton Boarding Stables, Morton and Washington Streets. Joseph -Hartshorn, 168 East 68th Street. - -EUGENE PORTER. - -Sworn to before me this 4th day of September, 1900. - -GEO. P. HAMMOND, JR., Notary Public (164), N. Y. County. - - ---- - -_City and County of New York, ss._: - -Richard C. Creech, being duly sworn, deposes and says that he resides -at No. 137 West 53rd Street. That on Wednesday morning, August 15th, -1900, he had been to visit a friend at No. 312 West 45th Street, and -left there at about 10:45 P. M. and walked to 8th Avenue, -and had reached the corner of 8th Avenue and 45th Street, when he was -set upon by a gang of rioters, and assaulted by them. That he shouted -"Police!" and seeing two officers on the east side of the avenue, -corner of 45th Street, he ran towards them when he saw them coming -towards him and slackened his pace, thinking that they were coming to -his assistance. When they came up to him, without saying a word, they -commenced clubbing him, and knocked him unconscious on the sidewalk. -He lay there unconscious for some time, he does not know exactly how -long, but when he came to he found one of the policeman standing over -him, and when he scrambled to his feet the policeman said, "Well, you -black son of a b----, I guess you will be good now, won't you? Get -out of here as quick as you can!" He then went towards Broadway, and -on Broadway between 45th and 46th Streets engaged a cab to take him -home, and when he arrived home found that his pocketbook, containing -thirty-six dollars in money and a pawnticket for a watch, was gone. -He also lost his hat and an umbrella. He sent for his physician, Dr. -Robert L. Cooper, 156 West 53rd Street, who took three stitches in his -scalp and dressed other wounds on his arm and hand, the result of the -clubbing. - -RICHARD C. CREECH. - -Sworn to before me this 1st day of September, 1900. - -GEO. P. HAMMOND, JR., Notary Public (164), N. Y. County. - - ---- - -_City and County of New York, ss._: - -Duncan James, of No. 238 West 40th Street, engaged in business at 84 -and 86 Greene Street, care of G. Blum & Brother, being duly sworn, -says: On Wednesday, August 15th, I left the store and went to my tutor -at West 124th Street. I left there at ten P. M., and when I -reached 43rd Street and 8th Avenue three men jumped on the car and -struck me in the face. Passengers advised me not to get off at 40th -Street. When I arrived at 34th Street men saw me on the car, and when -it reached 33rd Street the car stopped suddenly and everybody jumped -off. The car was surrounded by a mob. I had no weapon or protection -but a cane. I kept them off the best I could. About twelve officers -came and took me from the mob. They took me about one hundred and fifty -feet from 8th Avenue in 33rd Street West, and as they turned me loose -the officers pounded me severely with clubs over my head, arms, and -shoulders, telling me to run. I had then lost my hat, cane, and books. -I went back to my teacher's house and stayed all night. I was the only -negro man there. In West 33rd Street a man gave me a hat. I could find -him. I begged the officers to lock me up for protection, and they would -not. Dr. Swinburne treated me. - -DUNCAN JAMES. - -Sworn to before me this 31st day of August, 1900. - -FRANK MOSS, Notary Public, N. Y. County. - - ---- - -_City and County of New York, ss._: - -Mack Thomas, being duly sworn, deposes and says: - -I reside at 238 West 40th Street. On Wednesday, August 15th, 1900, I -attended the St. Paul Baptist Church in West 43rd Street, and at about -ten P. M. left for home. Knowing that the rioters were at -work, I decided, instead of taking my usual route home, to go to 9th -Avenue and transfer to 34th Street, to 7th Avenue, and thence back to -40th Street, thinking by that means to be able to avoid the rioters and -reach home in safety. I boarded a 9th Avenue car at 43rd Street and -transferred at 9th Avenue, and had reached the corner of 8th Avenue -and 34th Street, when I saw a mob on the corner, and heard them shout, -"There's two on the car; go after them, get them; lynch the niggers!" I -stayed on the car until the mob boarded the car, when I jumped off and -ran east on 34th Street pursued by the mob, several members of which -struck me with their fists, but with no serious result. I had got so -far as the middle of the block when I met four or five officers, one -of whom stepped in front of me and struck me a blow with his club on -the head, cutting it open. When he did so he said, "Who hit you?" I -said nothing; then he said, "Get on the car, you black son of a b----, -and get home out of here!" I got on the car and reached home without -any further interference. Deponent declares it to be his belief that -if he had not been stopped by the police, and struck by them, he would -have reached his home without any serious injury; not mentioning the -fact that the police made no attempt whatever to interfere with the -mob. Deponent further declares that he would prefer to have taken -his chances with the mob than to have met the said police officers. -Deponent further declares that he was perfectly sober, was proceeding -quietly on his way home, and was taking extraordinary measures to reach -his home in safety and without violence. - -MACK THOMAS. - -Sworn to before me this 5th day of September, 1900. - -GEO. P. HAMMOND, JR., Notary Public (164), N. Y. County. - - ---- - -_City and County of New York, ss._: - -Miss Belle Johnson, being duly sworn, deposes and says: - -I reside at 275 West 39th Street. On Wednesday evening, August 15th, -1900, between nine and ten o'clock, I heard a disturbance in the -street, and going to my window on 8th Avenue I saw a crowd of people on -the sidewalk, and saw them rush toward a Negro boy who was standing on -the corner (northeast corner 39th Street and 8th Avenue) and beat him. -He rushed into a delicatessen store on 8th Avenue, but was thrust out -by the proprietor. When he reached the sidewalk two officers grabbed -him and clubbed him and then pushed him into the crowd, saying with an -oath, "Run now, for your life!" He then ran to 39th Street and east on -39th Street with fully one hundred people after him. Right after this -occurrence a colored man came along, and after being attacked by the -mob was knocked over towards four police officers who were standing -on the corner, one of whom was Officer 6312. All four of the officers -then rushed for this man and clubbed him unmercifully about the head -and body. I could not stand the sight any longer and shouted to the -officers that it was a shame when police officers, who were supposed -to be protecting peaceable citizens, assaulted them in such a brutal -manner. About this time they ceased clubbing the man and thrust him -out into the crowd of rioters. This sort of thing continued during the -entire night, and until the next day, as at nine A. M., when -I went out on an errand, I saw a colored man, who was carrying a small -sign, beaten by a crowd of roughs. I saw a number of colored persons -struck who were riding on the cars, and at least six colored men -clubbed by the police during this time. - -BELLE JOHNSON. - -Sworn to before me this 5th day of September, 1900. - -_Geo. P. Hammond, Jr._, Notary Public (164), N. Y. County. - - ---- - -_City and County of New York, ss._: - -Mrs. Fannie Lewis, being duly sworn, deposes and says: - -She has read the foregoing affidavit of Miss Belle Johnson, and that -she knows of her own knowledge that the facts therein stated are true. - -FANNIE LEWIS. - -Sworn to before me this 5th day of September, 1900. - -GEO. P. HAMMOND, JR., Notary Public (164), N. Y. County. - - ---- - -_City and County of New York, ss._: - -Chester Smith, being duly sworn, deposes and says: - -I reside at No. 320 West 37th Street. I am employed in Flannery's drug -store, at No. 103 West 42nd Street, and have been so employed for the -last ten months. On August 15th, 1900, at about ten o'clock P. -M., while going to my home, walking on the west side of 8th Avenue -between 38th and 39th Streets, I saw a crowd of people, composed mostly -of police officers and children. Some one in the crowd said, "There is -a nigger!" pointing at me. One of the policemen ran towards me, and -seeing that I was in physical danger I ran away from the place, going -north to 39th Street on 8th Avenue. Somebody threw a brick at me, which -struck me in the back, and then one of the policemen came up to me -and struck me in the left eye with his club. My eye and my forehead -are still lacerated and discolored. I then ran into the saloon at the -southeast corner of 39th Street and 8th Avenue. One of the policemen -ran in after me, and told me to go outside and run towards Broadway; -that the mob had dispersed. I started toward the door, and as I reached -it I saw that they were still waiting outside. I said to the officer as -I started back into the saloon, "No, sir, I can't go out there; they'll -kill me." The policeman then lifted me from the ground and threw me -through the swinging door into the street. The glass in the door was -broken, and I fell on my hands and knees. The policemen and the mob -then began beating me, the policemen beating me with their clubs. They -did not disperse the crowd or protect me from it. I then started to -run towards Broadway; another policeman ran after me and struck me in -the back with his club. I staggered, made one or two jumps, and fell -in front of No. 236 West 39th Street. The lady of the house, a white -woman, came out, and I was taken into the house by some one, I don't -know whom. Two or three days after she told me that the officers soon -left the house, but that the mob tried to break in, and that she told -them that if they would not leave she would kill them. The lady rang -for a messenger boy and sent word to my employer to call. He came and -brought some bandages, etc., and bandaged my head. He then called two -police officers and asked them to take me to the station house. They -refused. He insisted, and they finally yielded and took me to the -station house. I was treated there by a police surgeon. My employer -remained with me until three o'clock the next morning. I did not work -for three days after this. I saw one man treated very harshly at the -station house, being clubbed by police officers, and I believe he would -have been treated still worse if it had not been for the presence of -reporters. I did nothing whatever to justify this brutal treatment on -the part of the police officers. I believe that had it not been for the -presence of my employer I would have been beaten still more. There were -over twenty-five policemen in the crowd. I was unconscious part of the -time. I have never been arrested in my life. - -CHESTER SMITH. - -Sworn to before me this 5th day of September, 1900. - -GEO. P. HAMMOND, JR., Notary Public (164), N. Y. County. - - ---- - -On September 13th, 1900, I visited the premises No. 236 West 39th -Street and found that the occupant thereof was the woman who rescued -Chester Smith from the hands of the mob, and that her name is Mrs. -Davenport. She stated that she did not want to make an affidavit or -statement of the occurrence, but volunteered the information that she -had sheltered two or three Negroes during the night of August 15th -and the morning of the 16th, also that several police officers who -attempted to get into her house, at the time that she rescued the said -Smith, acted and spoke in an insulting manner, one of them saying, -"What kind of a woman are you, to be harboring niggers?" - -GEORGE P. HAMMOND, JR. - - ---- - -_City and County of New York, ss._: - -Harry L. Craig, being duly sworn, deposes and says: - -I reside at No. 226 West 28th Street. I am employed as a hall boy at -the apartment houses Nos. 102 and 104 East 26th Street. On August -15th, 1900, I left the apartment house a little after twelve o'clock, -that being the time I usually go home. I walked on 26th Street to -6th Avenue, then turned into 6th Avenue and walked to 27th Street; I -then walked on 27th Street to 8th Avenue, turned into 8th Avenue, and -went into the saloon at 8th Avenue and 28th Street, southwest corner, -where I had a drink, and left about 12:20, going home on 28th Street. -As I neared M. Groh's Son's Brewery on that block some one hit me -on the head with a club; I turned around and saw three policemen in -uniform, and behind them was a mob of at least fifty men. The street -was very dark. I started to run home, but one of the officers tripped -me, and I fell. I was then clubbed by the police and the mob into -unconsciousness. When I recovered I found that the police and the mob -had left. I picked up my hat and got up, and started to walk to our -house, which was only a few feet away, but I staggered and fell several -times. When I reached home the lady I live with, Mrs. Wisham, washed my -face with witch-hazel; my jaw was so sore that I could hardly open my -mouth. For a few days after this I felt sore all over my body, from the -effects of this clubbing. I was clubbed by three officers. The officers -led the crowd, and did not interfere when others were beating me. -They made no attempt to disperse the crowd. I did nothing whatever to -justify this brutal assault upon me by the police. I was never arrested -in my life. I was not in the neighborhood while the riots were going on -in the early part of the evening. The police did not give any reason -for acting as they did, and when I fell unconscious they left me alone -in the dark street. - -HARRY S. CRAIG. - -Sworn to before me this 13th day of September, 1900. - -FRANK MOSS, Notary Public, N. Y. County. - - ---- - -_City and County of New York, ss._: - -John L. Newman, being duly sworn, deposes and says: - -I reside at No. 351 West 37th Street, in the rear house. On August -15th, 1900, I went to the restaurant which is in the front building, -for supper. This was about 10:30 P. M. After I had been there -a few minutes some one told me that the mob was coming. I had seen -them beat colored people during the evening, without any cause, so -I walked out of the restaurant into my apartments, which are in the -rear, only a few steps away; I live in the basement floor. I did this -so as to avoid any trouble. As I reached the front door and walked in -I closed it, and proceeded to go into my apartments. Four officers -immediately came, and one of them said, "Stop!" and kicked open the -door. Then one of them grabbed me and said, "Here is a d----d nigger; -kill him!" The four officers then beat me with their clubs until I -became unconscious. They then carried me to the station house. I was -unconscious during all this time, but my friends tell me that the -police were beating me all the way to the station house. It is located -one block west from where I live. At the station house I recovered my -consciousness. I was arraigned before the sergeant, and the officer -who struck me first made the complaint against me. At the sergeant's -desk I felt very weak, bleeding from my head and eye, and I held on -to the railing for support. One of the officers struck me in the ribs -with a night stick, and said, "God d--n you, stand up there!" I fell -forward on the sergeant's desk, and I said, "For God's sake, take a -gun and blow out my brains! If you have got to take a life, take mine, -and don't murder me this way!" The sergeant then said very gruffly to -the officer, "Take him away!" While all this was going on Chief of -Police Devery was in the station house standing about ten feet away, -talking to somebody whom I did not know. He saw all this, but did not -interfere, conversing with the man all the time, as if nothing unusual -was going on. I have known Chief Devery for three or four years, and -have spoken with him in a friendly way many times. When I was brought -into the muster room, in the rear of the station house, I saw several -colored people being treated for their wounds. I was bleeding from -my head and eye, and could not see well, and I sat down in the wrong -chair. Two policemen then came over to me, pulled me out of the chair, -and were raising their clubs to strike me when some one said, "Don't -hit this man any more," and they obeyed. My wounds were then dressed, -and I was taken to a cell. About twelve o'clock, when the officer -who was making the prison rounds came to my cell, I asked him for -permission to see the sergeant. He asked why, and I told him that my -house was unlocked, and that I wished he would send an officer to lock -it. He said he would speak to the sergeant about it. In a few minutes -he returned and said, "The sergeant said, 'D--n him,' and that 'he had -no business with the house,'" and he did not send anyone to lock it and -protect my property. While I was in the station house I saw a colored -man, John Haines, struck by several officers with their clubs. He was -naked, only wearing a little undershirt. The officers were striking all -the colored men in the station house, and without any interference. -In court, the next morning, I was arraigned before Judge Cornell. The -officer swore that I was causing a riot in the street, I denied this. -I did not have any witnesses in court, because I did not have any -opportunity to produce them. The Judge did not ask me whether I wanted -an examination or not, and expressed his doubts as to my guilt, and -said the case was "very curious." But the officers were persistent in -their false statements, aforesaid, and the magistrate put me under $100 -bonds to keep the peace. Not being able to furnish this, I was sent to -the Penitentiary, where I was for thirty days. I was treated at the -Penitentiary by Dr. Thomas Higgins, who told me that my head would -never be right as long as I lived. I have been sick ever since. Dr. -Higgins told me that he would testify for me in any proceeding which -I might institute. I am employed by the Metropolitan Street Railway -Company as a rockman, but am unable to work at present. I have lived in -New York City for over forty-three years, and have never been arrested -before in my life. I did not participate in the riots, was not on the -street, and did nothing whatever to justify this conduct on the part of -the police. I can recognize the officer who made the charge against me; -he was the first to strike me. - -JOHN L. NEWMAN. - -Sworn to before me this 19th day of September, 1900. - -JOHN F. MACCOLGAN, Notary Public (4), N. Y. County. - -(The officer in the case was Holland.) - - ---- - -_City and County of New York, ss._: - -Mrs. Martha A. Brown, being duly sworn, deposes and says: - -I reside at No. 351 West 37th Street. On Wednesday, August 15th, 1900, -about 10:15 P. M., while on my way upstairs I saw John Newman, -who lives in the rear house at the above number, come in the front door -and close it; he had almost reached the rear of the hall when the front -door was opened by a policeman who had his club raised, and who ran up -to the said Newman, struck him over the head with his club, felling -him to the floor; he then dragged Newman to the street, clubbing him -meanwhile, and at the front door he was joined by four other officers, -who assisted him to drag Newman out into the street, where they threw -him into the midst of the mob which had congregated outside, and some -of whom jumped on Newman, stamping on his stomach with their feet. -Newman was then again taken by the officers and dragged to the station -house on the next block. Deponent states further that Newman did not -appear to be trying to get away from anyone, when he entered the front -door, and further when he was struck first he was struck from behind. - -MARTHA A. BROWN. - -Sworn to before me this 24th day of September, 1900. - -GEO. P. HAMMOND, JR., Notary Public (164), N. Y. County. - - ---- - -_City and County of New York, ss._: - -Mrs. Betty Green, being duly sworn, deposes and says: - -I reside at No. 353 West 37th Street, Manhattan Borough, New York City. -On Wednesday, August 15th, 1900, about eleven P. M., I saw -John Newman coming out of the restaurant next door, No. 351, and spoke -a few words to him, and saw him go into the hall door of the house -in the rear of which he lived. Almost immediately I saw two officers -in uniform, and about three others in citizens' clothes. The two in -uniform ran into the hallway after the said John Newman, some of the -officers saying, "Get the black son of a b----, and kill him!" Shortly -afterward I saw the two men in uniform drag Newman out onto the stoop, -clubbing him meanwhile. He sank to the stoop and lay there for some -time. While he lay there a patrol wagon went by, and the officers tried -to get it to stop; but it went on. They then took Newman and led him on -down towards the station house. All the way to 9th Avenue every officer -they met took a crack at him. Deponent states that Newman was perfectly -sober, and had done nothing from the time that he left the restaurant -till the officers ran after him into the hallway. She saw him make no -resistance after the officers got him and clubbed him. - -BETTY GREEN. - -Sworn to before me this 27th day of September, 1900. - -GEO. P. HAMMOND, JR., Notary Public (164), N. Y. County. - - ---- - -_City and County of New York, ss._: - -Miss Albertha L. Clark, being duly sworn, deposes and says: - -I reside at No. 351 West 37th Street. On Wednesday, August 15th, 1900, -between eleven and ten o'clock P. M., while looking out of the -front window of my home, I saw an officer strike a colored man over the -head with his club, and the man ran down towards my home, in front of -which another officer hit him over the head with his club, and still -another officer kicked him; then two officers took him to the station -house. While this was going on I heard a noise in the hall, and in a -few minutes I saw a colored man dragged from the hallway of my home, -whom I recognized as John Newman, who lived in the rear house; the -officers threw him into the mob, whereupon I left the window to see -what had become of my folks, and when I returned to the window the -officers were dragging Newman to the station house. After the above -occurrence officers came through 37th Street from 8th Avenue, and -ordered people who were sitting at the windows to go away from there, -and without giving them sufficient time to do so drew their revolvers -and fired them at the occupants of the windows. - -ALBERTHA L. CLARK. - -Sworn to before me this 24th day of September, 1900. - -GEO. P. HAMMOND, JR., Notary Public (164), N. Y. County. - - ---- - -_City and County of New York, ss._: - -Mrs. Lucinda Thomson, being duly sworn, deposes and says: - -I reside at No. 351 West 37th Street. On Wednesday, August 15th, 1900, -I was at home and in my rooms between the hours of ten and eleven -P. M. I have heard the statements given by my two daughters, -namely, Albertha L. Clark and Mrs. Martha A. Brown, and have heard read -the affidavits made and subscribed to by them, and I know of my own -knowledge that all the facts therein stated are true. - -MRS. LUCINDA x THOMSON. - her mark - -Sworn to before me this 24th day of September, 1900. - -GEO. P. HAMMOND, JR., Notary Public (164), N. Y. County. - - ---- - -_City and County of New York, ss._: - -Mrs. Elizabeth Brown, being duly sworn, deposes and says: - -I reside at No. 458 Seventh Avenue, New York City. On Saturday, August -18th, 1900, my brother, Charles A. Mitchell, twenty-seven years of age, -and employed as a waiter, had heard of the riots and was on his way -to see me, and had reached the corner of 34th Street and 7th Avenue, -when he saw a mob of about five hundred people, led by eight or nine -officers, who upon seeing him attacked and clubbed him, hitting him -on the head and shoulders. He managed to reach the front door of my -home and run into it, where I aided him and put him on a lounge; this -was about ten o'clock on Saturday evening. His wife came to see him -about 10:30 and took him home about one o'clock Sunday morning, where -he stayed until about two A. M., when he became violent, and -it became necessary to send him to the insane pavilion of Bellevue -Hospital. All the time he was shouting in his delirium, "Devery did -it! Devery did it! Here they come!" Deponent declares that while in -the insane pavilion of Bellevue Hospital her brother, the said Charles -A. Mitchell, was beaten and maltreated by the attendants thereat, he -having a gash in his head about three inches long, and similar cuts on -his wrist and two on his leg. He stayed at Bellevue from Sunday, the -19th of August, 1900, to Thursday, the 23rd of August, 1900, when he -was removed to Ward's Island Insane Asylum. Deponent states further -that her brother is of very slight build, being only five feet six -inches in height and weighing about one hundred and twelve pounds, and -that she witnessed the clubbing of her brother by the police as she was -looking out of the front window at the time, and that the said clubbing -was unjustifiable and brutal, and wholly without cause. - -MRS. ELIZABETH BROWN. - -Sworn to before me this 20th day of September, 1900. - -GEO. P. HAMMOND, JR., Notary Public (164), N. Y. County. - - ---- - -_City and County of New York, ss._: - -Mrs. Elizabeth Brown, being duly sworn, deposes and says: - -On Saturday, August 18th, 1900, I saw the mob going towards 37th -Street, and while watching them I saw a colored man come up from a -house somewhere on 7th Avenue between 36th and 37th Streets and run -toward 35th Street. Some of the officers saw him and ran after him, -catching him and clubbing him, leaving him lying on the car track -for dead. He was picked up by some men and taken to a saloon on the -northeast corner of 36th Street and 7th Avenue. - -MRS. ELIZABETH BROWN. - -Sworn to before me this 20th day of September, 1900. - -GEO. P. HAMMOND, JR., Notary Public (164), N. Y. County. - - ---- - -_City and County of New York, ss._: - -Willis King, being duly sworn, deposes and says: - -I reside at 346 West 41st Street, New York City. On Wednesday. August -15th, 1900, while passing through 34th Street, about 11:30 P. -M., I was joined by a crowd of men and boys. I crossed over to the -north side of the street, to where about a dozen officers stood, on the -northeast corner, in front of a saloon. I was grabbed by three of them -as soon as I got near them, and without saying a word they started me -up 8th Avenue towards the station house. On the way up 8th Avenue the -officer who was behind me, and who was feeling my clothes and pockets -for weapons, said, "He has nothing." Whereupon the officer on my right -suggested that they go down a dark street, which was done by turning -west on 35th Street. We had gone about one third of the way down the -block, on the south side of the street, when all three officers turned -on me and beat me with their clubs over the head and body. I was felled -to the sidewalk. When they stopped one of them remarked. "I guess that -will do him for a while," whereupon all three of them walked off, -leaving me lying upon the sidewalk. I managed to get to No. 327 West -35th Street, when a lady by the name of Mrs. Smith, who lives on the -second floor, and who had seen the officers clubbing some one, was -standing on the front stoop of her home; she asked me when she saw me -whether it was I that had been clubbed, and I told her that it was. -She then took me into Mrs. Conner's apartments on the first floor and -dressed the cuts in my head. Deponent declares that he did not know -anything about a disturbance, that he did not resist arrest, and that -he was perfectly sober and on his way home from visiting a friend on -East 27th Street. - -WILLIS KING. - -Sworn to before me this 27th day of September, 1900. - -GEO. P. HAMMOND, JR., Notary Public (164). N. Y. County. - - ---- - -_City and County of New York, ss._: - -Isaiah O. Ferguson, being duly sworn, deposes and says: - -I reside at 165 East 97th Street, New York City. On Wednesday evening, -August 15th, 1900, I started to go downtown on the West Side, and had -reached the neighborhood of 8th Avenue and 43rd Street, riding on an -8th Avenue car, which was of the combination type, and I was in the -closed part, when I reached the aforementioned place. I noticed a large -crowd of people, and patrol wagons and ambulances. I inquired from a -gentleman who sat next to me what was the matter, and he replied that -he did not know. We proceeded downtown and had reached the neighborhood -of 36th Street, when suddenly the car, which had been proceeding very -slowly, came to a dead stop. The motorman and the conductor both folded -their arms and looked at me. The next I knew a number of men jumped on -the car, some coming through the windows, and commenced beating me, -and continued to beat me until I was insensible. When I came to, the -car had started and was going slowly. I was bewildered and dazed, and -I rushed from the car and downtown, several people on the way trying -to stop me, but I was crazed with pain and fled on, until I was met by -a lady friend, who stopped me on seeing my condition, and took me to -her home, on 17th Street near 9th Avenue, where she bathed my head and -dressed my wounds, and where I stayed until the next morning, when I -went to Washington, D. C., where a physician attended to me. Deponent -further states as the car stopped he noticed four police officers on -the east side of the avenue, and that they made no attempt whatever to -interfere with the mob: further, that he was proceeding on his journey -in a quiet manner, and had not heard of any trouble, and that he had -given absolutely no cause for the attack. - -I. O. FERGUSON. - -Sworn to before me this 21st day of September, 1900. - -GEO. P. HAMMOND, JR., Notary Public (164), N. Y. County. - - ---- - -_City and County of New York, ss._: - -Headly Johnson, being duly sworn, deposes and says: I reside at 330 -West 53rd Street. I am employed as a Pullman car porter, on the cars -running out of the West Shore depot, Weehawken, N. J. I arrived on my -train at the said depot on Thursday, August 16th, 1900, at 2:25 P. -M. I arrived in New York about 5:30 P. M. the same day, -and, having heard of the riots, I had prepared to protect myself from -the mob by carrying home with me a revolver. I boarded a car at the -West Shore ferry at the foot of West 42nd Street and transferred to -an 8th Avenue car at 34th Street, and had proceeded as far as 40th -Street, when the car was assailed by a mob shouting, "There's another -nigger! Kill him! lynch him!" I stood up and was ready to defend -myself, when a passenger on the car asked me to sit down, saying that -if the mob got on the car he would help me defend myself. I sat down as -requested, and happening to look over my shoulder I saw three police -officers in uniform running after the car. They boarded the car, and, -seizing me, one of the officers put his hand in my pocket and took -the revolver from me, then pulled me off the car, saying, "Come off -of here, you black son of a b----!" When they had pulled me off the -car they immediately commenced clubbing me, and continued to do so all -the way to the station house. While in the station house I saw several -colored men beaten by police officers. The sergeant at the desk, when -I was sent to a cell, shouted to the police officers, "Don't hit this -man!" repeating the same several times. I was taken to the police court -the next day, where I was discharged. Deponent states further that the -officer who arrested him and appeared against him in the police court -is the one who did the most of the clubbing; in fact, all of it except -one blow. Deponent declares further that he was proceeding quietly to -his home, where he was determined to go, and was not molesting anyone, -and that when the officers signified their intention to arrest him -he made no show of resistance, and that therefore the clubbing was -unjustifiable and an outrage. - -HEADLY JOHNSON. - -Sworn to before me this 8th day of September, 1900. - -GEO. P. HAMMOND, JR., Notary Public (164), N. Y. County. - - ---- - -_City and County of New York, ss._: - -Benjamin McCoy, being duly sworn, deposes and says: I reside at 226 -West 40th Street. On Thursday, August 16th, 1900, about five A. -M., I arose to go to my work. I went to Dobbins' restaurant, on -8th Avenue between 40th and 41st Streets, and had breakfast, after -finishing which I went to the corner of 41st Street to board an 8th -Avenue car, to reach my place of business. As I was standing waiting -for the car I saw two officers walking on the east side of the street, -and a colored man came running along with blood streaming from his -head, and said to me, "Don't stand there; go away, or those policemen -will club you to death; they just clubbed me." The car came along just -then, and I walked out to get on board, and had put my hand on the -rail, when one of the officers who had been on the other side of the -street came suddenly around from behind the car, and struck me on the -shin of my left leg, and struck me several times on the upper part of -the leg, saying, "Get in there, get in there! What are you standing -around here whistling for?" Deponent declares that he was not creating -any disturbance at the time, and that there were not over four or -five persons, outside of the police officers, on the street in the -immediate neighborhood, and that the assault was entirely unwarranted -and unjustifiable and a flagrant outrage, perpetrated, by one by whom -deponent would expect, and had a right to expect, to be protected. - -BENJAMIN MCCOY. - -Sworn to before me this 7th day of September, 1900. - - ---- - -_City and County of New York, ss._: - -Albert Saunders, being duly sworn, deposes and says: I live at 440 West -45th Street. I work at 118 West 27th Street. On August 15th I left -my work at night and walked up 8th Avenue toward my home. About 38th -Street a crowd ran at me, somebody struck me, and I staggered, and then -I received another blow that cut open my head and made me speechless. -I found myself in the hands of an officer, who took me to the station -house, where my wound was dressed. I stayed there till about four -A. M. A number of colored men were brought in by officers, -some of them cut and bleeding, like myself. I remember a colored man -who was brought in bleeding, and naked except for a merino shirt. When -he was taken back to the cells the policeman who had him clubbed his -legs. Another man who had a cut head was advised by the jailer to put -his head under the hydrant, but the man said he was afraid the officer -who had him would strike him again if he got his head down, so the -jailer got a pail and washed it. I was not in a position where I could -see clearly all that happened, but I saw several other colored men -struck and abused by policemen. I am an English subject, was born in -St. Kitts, and suppose that my speech showed that I was not an American -and protected me. - -ALBERT SAUNDERS. - -Sworn to before me this 5th day of September, 1900. - -FRANK MOSS, Notary Public, N. Y. County. - - ---- - -_City and County of New York, ss._: - -George White, of 145 West 32nd Street, being duly sworn, deposes and -says that on Wednesday, August 15th, 1900, at half past ten P. -M., while riding on a 34th Street car, going east, he saw and -heard a crowd of boys and young men running and yelling at the car that -he was on, and that immediately after he saw three police officers -board the said car, and upon seeing deponent they grabbed him by the -arm and clubbed him over the head and arms, pulled him off the car, -and continued to club him. They then took him to the West 37th Street -station house, where his wounds were dressed by a surgeon from one of -the hospitals, who was there. Deponent further states that he is not -addicted to the use of liquor, had not been drinking on the said day, -and that he was not intoxicated at the time of the clubbing; that he -was not placed under arrest, and that he remained in the station house -until after the storm came up, or as near as he can remember about -three o'clock A. M. the next morning, by reason of being told -that there was a mob outside waiting to beat all Negroes that they -could catch. Further, that by reason of the suddenness of the attack he -did not look closely at the assailants, so as to be able to identify -them. - -GEORGE x WHITE. - his mark - -Sworn to before me this 28th day of August, 1900. - -GEO. P. HAMMOND, JR., Notary Public (164), N. Y. County. - - ---- - -_City and County of New York, ss._: - -Charles Bennett, being duly sworn, deposes and says: - -I reside at No. 309 West 37th Street. On August 15th, 1900, I was -working for a man named Mr. O'Connor, who keeps a saloon at Coney -Island. I quit work at one o'clock A. M. the next day (August -16th), and started for home with a man named Wilson. We boarded an 8th -Avenue car at Warren Street and Broadway, which was going north; just -before we reached the street whereon I reside the conductor of the car -upon which we were riding told us that there had been a riot, that it -was because of the death of the police officer, and that they were -attacking every colored man that they caught. I then said that we had -better get off; the conductor then said that it was "pretty quiet" when -he came down. We got off the car at 8th Avenue and 37th Street, and at -3:30 A. M. had almost reached the front door of my home when -several police officers from among a group of about a dozen called to -me asking me where I was going. I told them, "Home here." I was then -in front of my door, and immediately after making my reply an officer -hit me with his club, knocking me down. I struggled to my feet and -endeavored to run towards 8th Avenue, but was pursued by the officers -and knocked down again at the corner of 8th Avenue and 36th Street. It -was raining very hard at the time, and they threw me into the gutter, -which was full of rain water; they kept my head in the water until I -strangled, when they let up, jumped on me, and pushed me back again -into the gutter. After a while they called a patrol wagon, into which -they threw me, and beat me all the way to the station house in 37th -Street. Upon my arrival there my head had been cut open; I was covered -with blood and bruises from the beating and clubbing I had received. -While in the station house I told Captain Cooney that I had been -clubbed by policemen. I remained in the station house for about half -an hour, and while there I heard a man who was dressed in citizen's -clothes say to the officers present, "Club every d----d nigger you see; -kill them; shoot them; be brave, the same as I was." The man answered, -"All right; will you stick to us?" He answered, "Yes, I'll stand by -you." I heard this man called Thompson by some of the officers. He -went among the colored men who were present and who were in almost as -bad condition as I was, asking their names, where they had lived, and -what they had been doing. After receiving their answers he said to each -of them, "Get ter h--l home out of here; they'd ought ter have killed -yer!" When he came to me he said, "What's your name?" I told him; then -he said, "What were you doing?" I said, "I just come from work at Coney -Island." He exclaimed, "Coney Island, eh! That's a d----d nice place to -be working. Where do you live?" I told him, when he said, "Another nice -place right in my district, the worst block in the whole district." He -did not tell me to get out, but I was shortly after taken to Roosevelt -Hospital and from there to Bellevue Hospital, where I remained a week, -when I was taken to 54th Street Court, where I had a hearing and was -discharged on August 28th, 1900. While I was being clubbed in the -street one of the officers said, "Search him," whereupon they stopped -the clubbing long enough to search my pockets and take fourteen dollars -in bills from me, which I had in my hip pocket of my trousers. I have -never had the said money returned to me. While I was in the station -house Captain Cooney was there, but not in uniform, and the aforesaid -man whom they called Thompson was giving orders to the men, in the -presence of Captain Cooney. At the time that I had reached my home on -the said night there was no disturbance in the neighborhood, and there -was but one man in sight, and he was chased away by the officers. -Everything was quiet in the neighborhood, and on the way uptown on the -car I saw no signs of a disturbance, and would not have known anything -about there having been anything of the kind if I had not been informed -by the car conductor. I can identify two of the officers who took part -in the clubbing, one of whom was dressed in citizen's clothes, and who, -I think, was one of the wardmen attached to that precinct. (The witness -subsequently identified Officer Herman Ohm.) Deponent further states -that he has resided in the City of New York for the past fifteen years, -and has never been arrested before in his life, and has always been a -quiet, law-abiding citizen. - -CHARLES x BENNETT. - his mark - -Sworn to before me this 31st day of August, 1900. - -GEO. P. HAMMOND, JR., Notary Public (164), N. Y. County. - - ---- - -_City and County of New York, ss._: - -James Joseph Lockett, being duly sworn, deposes and says: - -I reside at No. 323 West 37th Street, in the Borough of Manhattan. I -am a cigar maker, and am employed by Gahio & Roverie, on East 37th -Street. On Wednesday, August 15th, 1900, at about eight P. M., -accompanied by my wife, I called at the residence of Thomas H. McGuire, -a friend of mine who resides at No. 410 West 36th Street, where we -remained until about 11:15 P. M. We walked east on 36th Street -to 8th Avenue, where we met four police officers in uniform on the -northwest corner. We passed them and turned into 8th Avenue, walking on -the west side of the avenue, towards 37th Street. We had not gone over -fifty feet when the officers ran after us and beat us with their clubs. -One of the officers said to me. "You black son of a b----, you have a -knife!" and struck me on the head with a club several times, and then -led us to the station house. There we were searched by the officer, who -took eleven dollars in money--two two-dollar bills, one five-dollar -bill, and two one-dollar bills--one rent receipt for thirteen dollars -and fifty cents for August, signed by Herbert Peck & Co., none of -which has been returned to me. The sergeant, in uniform, was behind -the desk, and the roundsman made the entry. I was charged with being -drunk and carrying a knife. My head was bleeding profusely from the -wounds inflicted by the police officers, and the police surgeon at the -station house had to dress them. After this I was placed in a cell. The -next morning I was arraigned in the Magistrates' Court on West 54th -Street. The officer swore that I was drunk and disorderly and carried -a knife. The magistrate held me in $500 bail, and I was bailed by Mr. -Garner. I was not drunk on the occasion in question. I had drunk three, -and positively not more than four, glasses of beer at Mr. McGuire's -house. I did nothing which would justify this conduct on the part of -the police officers. On August 23rd an officer called at my house. He -said he was generally known as "Bootsey," and was sent by the Captain -to obtain a statement from me, which I gave him. He was in citizen's -clothes. He called again on August 24th, and said that Captain Cooney -wanted to see me at the station house. I did not go to see him. - -JAMES JOSEPH LOCKETT. - -Sworn to before me this 28th day of August, 1900. - -STEPHEN B. BRAGUE, Notary Public (125), N. Y. County. - - ---- - -_City and County of New York, ss._: - -Lavinia Lockett, being duly sworn, deposes and says: - -That she is the wife of James Joseph Lockett, and resides at 323 West -37th Street, in the Borough of Manhattan. That on August 15th, 1900, -at about eight o'clock in the evening, she with her husband visited -Mr. Thomas H. McGuire, a friend of ours, where we remained until about -11:15 P. M. Walking easterly to 8th Avenue, we met four police -officers in uniform on the northwest corner. We had gone about fifty -feet, when the officers ran after us and struck my husband with a -club and said, "You black son of a b----, you have a knife," and when -deponent screamed she was struck in the mouth and chest with a club by -one of the officers. We were taken to the station and locked in cells; -my husband was charged with being drunk and disorderly, and we were -held in bail in the sum of $500. Neither my husband nor myself was -intoxicated, and saw no crowd or any row and no excitement on our way -home until we were assaulted. - -LAVINIA LOCKETT. - -Sworn to before me this 28th day of August, 1900. - -STEPHEN B. BRAGUE, Notary Public (125), N. Y. County. - - ---- - -_City and County of New York, ss._: - -William Hamer, of No. 494 7th Avenue, being duly sworn, deposes and -says: - -I am a musician. I am employed at "The Fair," kept by Mr. Samuels, on -14th Street between 3rd and 4th Avenues. My wife is employed there -also. On August 15th I finished my work about 11:30 P. M. I -took the crosstown 14th Street car and changed to the 7th Avenue horse -cars. I had not heard anything of the riot. The car stopped between -36th and 37th Streets, and my wife and I were dragged from the car by a -crowd of men and lads armed with sticks and stones. I ran into a stable -at 37th Street and 7th Avenue, and they beat me in there and left me -for dead. A stone or something hit me in the stomach, and I fell into a -water trough. My wife and I were separated, and she did not find me. I -crawled out of the stable into a lumber yard and lay there in my blood -until three A. M. I have been in the doctor's care ever since, -and am out to-day for the first time. My doctor is Dr. Yarnell, of Park -Avenue near 84th Street. When I was pulled out of the car I noticed -a colored man lying unconscious on the ground. There were at least a -dozen policemen standing around. They did nothing, and made no effort -to protect me. - -WILLIAM HAMER. - -Sworn to before me this 31st day of August, 1900. - -FRANK MOSS, Notary Public, N. Y. County. - - ---- - -_City and County of New York, ss._: - -Mrs. Annie Hamer, being duly sworn, deposes and says that she resides -at 494 7th Avenue; that she is employed as a musician at "The Fair," in -East 14th Street; that on Wednesday, August 15th, 1900, about midnight -thereof, she in company with her husband arrived at 7th Avenue between -36th and 37th Streets on a 7th Avenue car; that when she alighted from -the car she found herself surrounded by a mob, and almost instantly was -struck in the mouth with a brick, thrown by some one whom she does -not know. She became separated from her husband, and did not know what -became of him until three A. M. the next morning, when he -came home all covered with blood. Deponent states further that she has -read the affidavit of her husband, hereto attached, and knows of her -own knowledge that the facts therein stated are true. Deponent further -states that she has been informed by her mother that the "captain" -stationed officers at the door of her residence, and told them to "not -let anyone in or out, and if anyone attempted it to shoot them." - -ANNIE HAMER. - -Sworn to before me this 6th day of September, 1900. - -GEO. P. HAMMOND, JR., Notary Public (164), N. Y. County. - - ---- - -_City and County of New York, ss._: - -William Lemoine, residing at 68 West 43rd Street, being duly sworn, -deposes and says that on Wednesday, August 15th, 1900, he started at -7:55 P. M. to attend a meeting of Odd Fellows being held at -29th Street between 6th and 7th Avenues, and had reached 7th Avenue -between 35th and 36th Streets, when he met two white men, who said -to him, "You had better not go down that way, you will get mobbed." -I said, "Mobbed! for what?" They said, "Why, they are having a riot -down there." I continued on, however, until I reached 34th and 35th -Streets on 7th Avenue, where I met two white women, who said to me, -"Do you want to get killed? If you don't you had better go on back." -I thereupon went no further in that direction, but turned back up 7th -Avenue, and went as far as 483 7th Avenue, and saw a crowd coming down -7th Avenue from about 41st Street, and another from about 34th Street. -Both of the crowds were composed of boys and young men who were in -the lead shouting and yelling, while in the midst of them were two or -three police officers. The boys would stir up a colored man and begin -yelling, "There he goes! There is one of them!" and the boys would -immediately run after them, and the police follow. I saw them overtake -two colored men, and saw the police take them down 37th Street towards -8th Avenue. While I was standing in front of 483 7th Avenue a friend of -mine, Mrs. Harriet Ann Bruna, who now resides at 152 West 27th Street, -called to me from her window, and told me to come upstairs, which I -did. She then said that I had better go into the hall bedroom and stay -there overnight, as I might get hurt if I stayed outside or attempted -to get home. This was about 8:30 P. M. I then went into the -hall bedroom aforementioned, and remained there looking out of the -window for about one hour and a half, during which time the blinds -were closed or turned down; I then undressed and went to bed, and was -in bed about an hour and three quarters, or until about 11:45 P. -M., when I heard a crash at the front door downstairs and heard -some one coming upstairs; when they reached my door they knocked at it -with their clubs, and broke in the central panel of the door, when I -said, "Don't break in the door, gentlemen; I'll open it," which I did. -Four officers in uniform and two men in citizens' clothes came in, and -exclaimed, "Here is the d----d nigger; kill him!" One in citizen's -clothes came over to me (I had fallen on the bed) and, striking me -on the hip with his club, said, "Come, get up out of there, where is -that gun?" I said, "I have no gun; there's my clothes; search them and -the room. I have done nothing; I have been asleep." The officers then -searched the room, my clothes, and myself, and found nothing. The one -in citizen's clothes then said, "He has no gun; we can't do anything." -The women in the house commenced to scream, and the officers then -broke in the door of Mrs. Elizabeth Mitchell, on the second floor, -frightening her so that she has been unable to leave her bed ever -since. I was hipshodden for a couple of days, and I rubbed it with -liniment for a couple of days until the misery got out of it. Deponent -further says that he has resided in San Francisco for the past eight -years, and had just arrived in the city the day before the riot, and -did not create any disturbance at that or any other time; and further, -that he did not fire any shot from any firearm on that evening; and -furthermore, never owned a gun, and never carried one. - -WILLIAM LEMOINE. - -Sworn to before me this 30th day of August, 1900. - -GEO. P. HAMMOND, JR., Notary Public (164), N. Y. County. - - ---- - -_City and County of New York, ss._: - -Walter W. Coulter (white), 481 7th Avenue, being duly sworn, deposes -and says that on Wednesday evening, August 15th, 1900, there was quite -a disturbance around his place of business, and at about 11:30 P. -M. he saw a number of officers and men in citizens' clothes go -into the houses 481 and 483, and he, thinking they were part of the -crowd of roughs, stepped up to a police officer, who was quite tall and -stout and of reddish complexion, and said to him, "Why do you allow -those rowdies to go up into that house; there is no one except a lot -of respectable women and children in there, and possibly one man." -The police officer replied as follows: "You go on and mind your own -respectability, and you will have enough to do; they just shied a brick -at us." Deponent further states that no brick had been thrown; that, -in fact, they could not get a brick, as he was looking for one a short -while before that to do some repairing with, and could not find one; -that the only apparent reason for their going into the house was the -fact that a large, tall man, whom he can identify if he sees him again, -came along 7th Avenue, and seeing this colored man in the window called -out, "There's a big nigger; get him!" and immediately there was a rush -made for the house. Deponent states further that the police knew there -were none but respectable people in that house, as deponent had gone -to a great deal of trouble to get rid of a lot of dissolute people who -were in the house about a year ago, and in his endeavors to get rid of -them had called upon the police to aid him, so that they were perfectly -cognizant of the facts in the case. - -WALTER W. COULTER. - -Sworn to before me this 31st day of August, 1900. - -GEO. P. HAMMOND, JR., Notary Public (164), N. Y. County. - - ---- - -_City and County of New York, ss._: - -Mrs. Elizabeth Mitchell, being duly sworn, deposes and says that she -resides at 481 7th Avenue; that on Wednesday evening, August 15th, -1900, about 11:30 P. M., two police officers in citizens' -clothes and one in citizen's dress broke in the door of her apartments -claiming to be looking for "the man that threw the bottle." She -answered and said that "no bottle was thrown," and that it was a shame -for them to break in the door of respectable people; that her sister, -Mrs. Kate Jackson, became frightened at the uproar, and thinking that -the life of her children and herself was in danger, jumped out of the -window with her three-year-old child in her arms, thereby endangering -the life of herself and child, and in consequence is now confined to -her bed with shock, fright, and bruises. That at six A. M. the -next morning she saw a colored man and woman assaulted on the corner of -36th Street and 7th Avenue. Also at 52nd Street and 7th Avenue, between -eleven and twelve A. M., she saw a colored man assaulted by -a white man, and when the officer attempted to interfere and arrest -the white man the motormen around the stables refused to allow him -to arrest him. She states further that one of the officers' first -name was "Jim," as she heard him so addressed by the man in citizen's -clothes. - -MRS. ELIZABETH MITCHELL. - -Sworn to before me this 31st day of August, 1900. - -GEO. P. HAMMOND, JR., Notary Public (164), N. Y. County. - - ---- - -_City and County of New York, ss._: - -Mrs. Kate Jackson, being duly sworn, deposes and says that she resides -at 481 7th Avenue, and that on Wednesday evening, August 15th, 1900, -she heard a great commotion in the hallway and almost immediately a -loud knocking on her door, and loud demands to open the door. She -thought by the sound that the mob that she had heard and seen about -the house was endeavoring to get into her rooms, and do her and her -children bodily harm, and possibly murder. She caught up her youngest -child (three years old) in her arms, and in her frenzy and fright -jumped out the window on to a shed and thence to the yard, the child -still in her arms, receiving bruises during her descent which have -made her lame and unable to walk, and has suffered so from shock that -she is now in bed and unable to leave it, and is under the care of her -physician, Dr. William Hartley, 335 West 34th Street. - -MRS. KATIE JACKSON. - -Sworn to before me this 31st day of August, 1900. - -GEO. P. HAMMOND, JR., Notary Public (164), N. Y. County. - - ---- - -_City and County of New York, ss._: - -William L. Hall, being duly sworn, deposes and says that he resides -at 202 West 49th Street; that he is employed as an elevator conductor -by R. H. Macy & Co., on West 14th Street; that on August 15th, 1900, -he was on his way to visit a friend at 410 West 36th Street, and had -reached 36th Street and 9th Avenue, when a crowd of young men and -boys, from about sixteen to nineteen years of age, got around him -and commenced yelling, jeering, hooting, and striking him with their -fists, and with sticks, pieces of pipe, and one in particular struck -him in the side with a weapon made of a long piece of wire, with a -hammer head fastened to it. He ran away from the crowd, and succeeded -in reaching a house in 36th Street between 8th and 9th Avenues, and -succeeded in defending himself there for about an hour and a half, and -finally managed to get out and home. Deponent states further that at -the time of the assault, and at the commencement of it, four officers -in full uniform were in the midst of the crowd of rioters, and were -with them while they (the rioters) were attacking the house with -stones, and that at that time, and at no time during the assault by -the rioters, did these officers make any attempt to protect deponent, -or to stop the assault by the rioters, but on the contrary, by reason -of their presence and inaction on their part, they encouraged the said -rioters to greater deeds of violence; that the deponent is a peaceable, -law-abiding citizen and a member of St. Mark's M. E. Church, on West -53rd Street, and that on the said evening he was molesting no one, and -was walking quietly along with Joseph Cæser, of 121 West 46th Street, -and John Hansborough, of 329 West 53rd Street, who also were attacked -by the rioters. - -WILLIAM L. HALL. - -Sworn to before me this 1st day of September, 1900. - -GEO. P. HAMMOND, JR., Notary Public (164), N. Y. County. - - ---- - -_City and County of New York, ss._: - -William E. Johnson, being duly sworn, deposes and says: - -I reside at 332 West 37th Street. On Wednesday, August 15th, 1900, -fearing that there might be trouble over the killing of Officer -Thorpe, I remained in the house all day and did not go out until about -eleven P. M., when I went across the street to get my mail -from 331 West 37th Street, where I have a letter box, because where -I live at present the letter boxes are easily rifled, and this box -is more secure. Upon returning to the house, which I did about five -or ten minutes after leaving it, I found a police officer standing -in the front of the house, ordering the tenants who were sitting on -the front stoop to go inside, and saying that if he found them there -when he came back he would club every one of them that he found there. -The people then jumped up and ran inside, and the officer immediately -followed them, striking at them, and struck one woman across the face. -As the people got inside the vestibule door the said door closed, and -I, thinking that the officer would not go inside, opened the door and -stepped inside, whereupon the officer rushed into the hall, and struck -me a blow on the head, felling me to my knees. I said, "Officer, I have -done nothing; why do you strike me?" The officer said nothing, but -jumped over me, chasing some of the tenants who had not succeeded in -getting upstairs. While he was doing that I went out into the street, -holding my head, which had been cut open by the blow, when the officer -came out of the house and, grabbing me, pushed me into the street and -commenced to club me again. I ran across the street to the tailor shop -of I. Cohn, at 337 West 37th Street, and into the back room of his -place, and fell on the sofa, where the officer, who had followed me in, -renewed the clubbing and dragged me out into the street and to the 37th -Street station house; and on the corner of 9th Avenue and 37th Street -they met an officer who was in citizen's clothes. The said officer drew -his billy from his pocket, and struck me a blow across the neck, and -put his billy back into his pocket. When I reached the station house I -did not answer any questions, and the sergeant who was behind the desk -knew my last name and entered it on the blotter as Albert Johnson, not -knowing my first name. I was put in a cell, and after I was put in a -cell two more were put in with me, and once or twice while I was there -an officer came through, and going to each cell called the occupant to -the door, asked them their names, etc., and would then take his billy -and push it through the bars into their faces. In one case he struck -one man in the face, knocking out two of his front teeth; this man was -sent to the island the next day, and I believe is now there. On the -Tuesday following Acting Captain Cooney called and brought me down to -the station house, and asked me who the officer was that assaulted -me. Deponent then described the officer to him, and after consulting -the blotter he handed me a slip of paper whereon was written the name -"Herman Ohm" saying that was the name of the officer who had assaulted -me. Captain Cooney expressed surprise that any of the officers should -have beaten me, as I was known to a great many of them. The officer -charged me with having a gun, and of giving him a fight in the hallway, -but did not produce the gun and was given until the next day to -produce it, when he produced a revolver and a bread knife of peculiar -shape, claiming that was what I had in my possession at the time of my -arrest. Deponent denied then and now that he had ever had a revolver -and knife in his possession, and that the only thing that was found on -him and taken from him was fifty cents in money and a small penknife. -Notwithstanding the denial of the ownership of the revolver and knife -by the deponent, and also that the officer brought no witnesses as -to his taking the said articles from him, deponent was fined fifteen -dollars, which was paid. - -W. E. JOHNSON. - -Sworn to before me this 4th day of September. 1900. - -GEO. P. HAMMOND. JR., Notary Public (164), N. Y. County. - - ---- - -_City and County of New York, ss._: - -Edwin H. Broadard, being duly sworn, deposes and says that he resides -at 332 West 37th Street; that he witnessed the action of the officer -mentioned in the above affidavit of W. E. Johnson, and also the -subsequent clubbing of Johnson by the said officer, and that deponent -was one of the tenants who was chased off the stoop by the said -officer; that the assault on the tenants by the said officer was -unwarranted and without justification. - -EDWIN H. BROADARD. - -Sworn to before me this 4th day of September, 1900. - -GEO. P. HAMMOND, JR., Notary Public (164), N. Y. County. - - ---- - -_City and County of New York, ss._: - -Mrs. Rosa Lewis, being duly sworn, deposes and says: - -I reside at 332 West 37th Street. On Wednesday, August 15th, 1900, -about eleven P. M., I in company with my husband and a number -of other tenants were sitting on the front stoop of our home, when an -officer approached and ordered us to "get inside out of that," adding -that if we didn't he'd club us. All of the tenants immediately obeyed -and passed on into the hallway, and I had reached the foot of the -stairs leading up to my rooms when the officer, who had rushed into the -hallway, struck me over the back with his club; I was lame in my back -and suffered pain from it for a number of days. Deponent states further -that the staircase is in the center of the house and about fifteen feet -from the main entrance; that she was using every endeavor to comply -with the command of the officer, which was given in an insulting and -ill-natured manner. - -ROSA LEWIS. - -Sworn to before me this 13th day of September, 1900. - -GEO. P. HAMMOND, JR., Notary Public (164), N. Y. County. - - ---- - -_City and County of New York, ss._: - -Maria Williams, of No. 206 West 27th Street, and Carrie Wells, of No. -239 West 29th Street, in the Borough of Manhattan, being severally duly -sworn, depose and say: - -On Wednesday, August 15th, 1900, we were sitting on the stoop of No. -239 West 29th Street, talking; we had been sitting there since 9:30 -P. M. We had there learned of the assaults on the Negroes in -this section, and heard the noise of the crowds and the stopping of -the cars on 8th Avenue. There was no crowd in the street at this time. -There were white and colored folks sitting on nearly all the stoops, -the same as occurs on any ordinary warm night. About 11:30 several -officers came through the street from 8th Avenue and walked towards -7th Avenue, three on the north side and four on the south side. No -one in the street had been molested by anyone. These officers walked -up the stoops, and without any warning ordered us into our houses, -at the same time striking at us. Mrs. Wells, the mother of deponent -Carrie Wells, was on the stoop one step from the bottom with three of -her children, aged respectively fourteen, thirteen, and twelve years. -An officer who is called "Joe," and whom we know, stepped up to Mrs. -Wells, and said, "Get in there, you black son of a b----," and struck -her viciously across the right hip, when she ran in with her children, -the officers still following, striking at her until he reached the top -step, looked around, and threatened to strike us if we came out again, -and he then went away. Deponent Williams looked out of her window and -saw these officers go through the same procedure wherever colored -folks were sitting. Nothing was said or done to any white people. We -see this officer every day. At about 2:15 in the morning some officers -came through the block and clubbed colored people wherever they saw -them, men as well as women. Deponent Wells lives at home with her -mother, and helps her keep house; deponent Williams keeps house for -herself and husband. Deponent Wells is a member of the Church of the -Transfiguration, at 29th Street and 5th Avenue, where I have attended -for years. Mr. and Mrs. Miller, of West 29th Street, know of us; Mrs. -McGurk, of No. 225 West 29th Street, Mrs. Kloze, of 223 West 29th -Street, all can vouch for our character. - -CARRIE WELLS. - -MARIA x WILLIAMS. - her mark - -Sworn to before me this 4th day of September. 1900. - -SAMUEL MARCUS, Notary Public. N. Y. County. - - ---- - -_City and County of New York, ss._: - -Mrs. Irene Wells, being duly sworn, deposes and says that she resides -at No. 239 West 29th Street; that on Wednesday evening, about nine -o'clock P. M., she visited a sick friend, named Mrs. Twine -(who has since died), at No. 216 West 29th Street, and while there, -and at about eleven o'clock P. M., hearing of the riot, she -rushed out of said 216 West 29th Street to look for her children and -get them safely at home--she having five children, and, motherlike, -was anxious to get them out of danger. That while gathering her -children together she noticed six police officers on each side of the -street, and had succeeded in getting her children up the stoop and -into the hallway of her home, and was on the second step of her stoop -going upstairs, when Police Officer 1065 came along, and, striking -her across the right hip with his club, said, "Get in out of here!" -and made several passes at her, and pursued her up two or three steps -of the stoop, but she rushed on up the stoop, driving her children -before her, and escaped him and his blows. Deponent further says that -she is a widow, and the sole support of her five children, by doing -general housework, ironing, and washing, etc., and has done so for the -past seven years; that she is a thoroughly respectable woman, and is -peaceful and quiet at all times, and deems this assault by the police -officer aforementioned an outrage, and without cause or provocation. -There were three children on the stoop with her. - -IRENE WELLS. - -Sworn to before me this 31st day of August, 1900. - -GEO. P. HAMMOND. JR., Notary Public (164), N. Y. County. - - ---- - -_City and County of New York, ss._: - -William H. Ross, being duly sworn, says: - -I reside at 475 7th Avenue, near 36th Street, New York City. I had -lived a short time at 225 West 32nd Street. I have lived for five years -in New York. I have been a messenger for General Daniel E. Sickles. At -about eleven o'clock on the evening of August 15th deponent was on his -way to his rooms, but was stopped at Zion's flat and advised to come in -and not cross the street, as there was a riot. I went in and went up -two pair of stairs until about four o'clock in the morning, and slept -on the stairs. My hour for going to work that morning was five o'clock, -at the Herald Building, where I was working for Marsell, who attends to -housecleaning and to the building. Another man, whose name I learned -was Hicks, took refuge in the building at the same time. At about half -past four o'clock on the morning of the 16th we heard a great commotion -in the house. Three policemen rushed upstairs; the first one said, "You -d----d black son of a b----, if you move I will shoot you like a dog!" -He then hit me on the head with his club, and cut my head open; the -other one then hit me on the head, and both beat me with their clubs -on the neck, back, shoulders, chest, and ribs until I was bloody and -sore and fell down, when one of the officers poked his pistol in my -face and said, "You black son of a b----, just move or say a word, and -I will shoot you like a cur." They also beat Hicks and broke his nose. -People whom I did not know, looking out of windows, cried out about -the brutality. They then had their fun with us, saying, "You d----d -niggers; get out of here." Then when we would start they would again -grab us, beat us, and threaten to shoot us. I would know one of these -policemen, as I saw him since on 7th Avenue, and also in September at -Broadway and 12th Street. I think that I would know the other fellow. -In taking us to court they swore to the most outrageous lies, without -any reason in fact. They stated we had been on the roof throwing -bottles on the street. I had never been in the house in my life, never -had been in a room and not above the second story, where they gave me -shelter. The policemen told other lies--that they arrested me before, -that he had warned me before on the street, that he had arrested me for -fighting a few days before. The judge asked if they had any witnesses; -they answered "Yes," and he gave them until three o'clock, when we were -discharged. I was never arrested before in my life. Two doctors gave me -certificates of character, which I had in court. - -WILLIAM H. ROSS. - -Sworn to before me this 4th day of September, 1900. - -STEPHEN B. BRAGUE, Notary Public (125). N. Y. County. - - ---- - -_City and County of New York, ss._: - -Robert Myrick, being duly sworn, deposes and says that he resides at -414 West 39th Street, and is employed by Bernard Brennan, saloon keeper -at 49th Street and Broadway; that on Thursday evening, August 16th, at -about eight P. M., he left his work at the said saloon and -walked to 8th Avenue between 47th and 48th Streets; that he entered -a restaurant on that block, and after eating a meal he asked the -proprietor whether there was any trouble downtown to-night. He replied, -"No, it is kind of quiet to-night, but I guess you had better take a -car and ride down, it will be safer." He replied. "I guess that will be -the best way," and then walked out onto the avenue and boarded a car -bound downtown, and had gone as far as 42nd Street when a mob of about -one hundred boys, none of whom apparently were over nineteen years of -age, began to throw stones at the car and yell, "There's a nigger in -the car; let's kill him!" Some woman on the car said, "Come over here, -mister; don't stand there and get killed." I went along the footboard -from the rear of the car, where I had been, and got under the seat, -where the mob could not see me; but the mob continued following the -car and stoned it until I reached 39th Street, where I wanted to get -off, but was advised there by three men (who were the only passengers -that had remained on the car) not to get off. I continued on until -the car reached 38th Street, when the car stopped and the mob caught -up with it. I then got off the east side of the car, and ran over to -the southeast corner of 8th Avenue, to where I saw five men standing, -and going up to one I said, "Officer, will you please see me home?" -He said, "Where do you live?" I told him. He then said, "What are you -doing on the street at this time of night?" I answered, "Going home -from work." He then asked me where I worked. I told him. He then said. -"Have you got a gun or a razor?" I said "I have neither." He then -proceeded to search me, when I remembered having a razor in a case in -my outside coat pocket, and I told the officer and showed him where it -was. He then took the razor out of my pocket, and, striking me across -the back of the neck with his club, said, "You black son of a b----!" -and then struck me several times on the head. I said to him, "I come -over to you for protection, and this is what I get." He then said, -"Shut up!" I was then taken to the 37th Street station house, and while -there I was kicked by the officers in the section room, and by the -doorman, and when I protested I was told to shut up. I was locked in -cell No. 13, and in the morning I was brought to the 54th Street police -court, where the judge turned me loose. While in my cell I got into -conversation with a colored man who is a porter for the N. Y. C. & H. -R. R., and he said that he was dragged from a street car and clubbed by -police officers. Deponent further states that he had the aforementioned -razor in his pocket by reason of the fact that it needed repairing, and -he had taken it to a barber to see if he could fix it, and finding that -he could not fix it he was taking it to his home to lay it away in its -place. Deponent says further that the time of the clubbing was about -8:30 P. M. - -ROBERT MYRICK. - -Sworn to before me this 1st day of September, 1900. - -GEO. P. HAMMOND, JR., Notary Public (164), N. Y. County. - - ---- - -_City and County of New York, ss._: - -Solomon Russell Wright, being duly sworn, deposes and says: - -I reside at No. 129 West 27th Street; on Thursday, August 16th, 1900, -about 6:30 P. M., I left the house and walked to the corner of 7th -Avenue and 28th Street, where I met a friend of mine, with whom I -stood and chatted for about three quarters of an hour, when I left and -returned down 7th Avenue towards 27th Street, and had got within about -one hundred feet of 27th Street, when I was struck by a missile thrown -by an Italian boy. I naturally turned around and asked him what he had -done that for. I passed on, however, and had got about fifty feet east -of 7th Avenue, on 27th Street, when a police officer ran after me, -and seizing me commenced feeling around my clothes as if in search of -something. I had an ordinary pocket knife in the change pocket of my -coat, and the officer finding it said, "What are you doing with this?" -I answered, "Do you see me doing anything with it?" He then took me -to the 30th Street station house (19th Precinct), and while going up -the steps of the station house I stumbled, and the officer then hit -me on the back of the neck with his club. I was arraigned before the -sergeant, who took my pedigree, and at the close of that proceeding the -officer who had me in charge, and whose name is Kennedy, said to the -sergeant, "What will we do with this feller?" The sergeant replied, -"Kill the black son of a b----!" The said officer then brought me back, -and when we reached a flight of stairs leading down to the cells he -shoved me down the whole flight; when I reached the bottom some other -officers who were down there grabbed me and punched and beat me with -their fists. I was arraigned the next day and charged with carrying a -knife, and I was committed for ninety days. I served part of the time, -when I was released on bail. I was not intoxicated, and had never been -arrested before in my life. I never have and do not stand around the -corners of the neighborhood; and further, I am employed by the Standard -Oil Company as a porter. - -SOLOMON R. WRIGHT. - -Sworn to before me this 22nd day of September, 1900. - -GEO. P. HAMMOND, JR., Notary Public (164). N. Y. County. - - ---- - -_City and County of New York, ss._: - -Alfred Bradshaw, being duly sworn, deposes and says: - -I reside at No. 210 West 27th Street with my wife and three children. -On August 16th, 1900, I bought a revolver on the Bowery, which I -intended to take home in the evening and leave there, as a protection -for my wife and children. There were numerous riots in the neighborhood -the evening before, and the rioters had broken into houses at all times -during the day and night, and I deemed it necessary for the protection -of my wife and children. I had been working at 96 Greene Street that -day. I am a general housecleaner, and work in all parts of the city. As -I was walking home on 7th Avenue, about four o'clock in the afternoon, -between 14th and 15th Streets, I saw a man run up to a police officer -and say something to him. The officer then came up to me and said, -"You've got a pistol; you give it up. I will arrest you." I handed him -the pistol, and he arrested me. I said as I handed it to him, "I bought -this pistol to protect my family at home. I heard of this rioting, and -I bought this pistol to protect my home." He said, "Why don't you call -to the officers for protection?" I said, "The officers can't protect -my home, because I don't know what time the riot might come in, and -we can't always find an officer on beat. I heard them break into some -houses and beat people unmercifully." I was taken to the 30th Street -station house. While there I saw Solomon Wright, who is at present in -the Penitentiary at Blackwell's Island, a Negro, being clubbed by a -policeman as he was being led from the sergeant's desk into the cell. -He was bleeding from his head, and his eye was discolored. I have been -in the city for twenty years, and have never been arrested before. I -did not show this pistol to anyone after I bought it, and intended to -leave it at the house, as a protection to my family. - -ALFRED x BRADSHAW. - his mark - -Sworn to before me this 4th day of September, 1900. - -STEPHEN B. BRAGUE. Notary Public (125), N. Y. County. - - ---- - -_City and County of New York, ss._: - -John H. Kellum, being duly sworn, deposes and says: - -I was on a Broadway car on the evening of Wednesday, August 15th, at -about 11:30 P. M. I boarded the car at the corner of 46th -Street and Broadway, and had reached a point a little north of 35th -Street, when I heard a mob run after the car and commence throwing -missiles at and into the car. Among other missiles was a little bottle, -which I caught, and with which I kept the rioters at bay. The car got -a short distance ahead of the mob, when it had passed 34th Street, -and I took advantage of that and jumped from the car and ran towards -three policemen in uniform, and two who were in citizens' clothes. One -of them said not to run any further, and one of the men in citizens' -clothes said, "Get on this car, and I'll get on with you." I did so -and rode to 32nd Street, and the said officer got on the rear platform -of the same car. I got off at 32nd Street and was not molested again. -Deponent further says that the officers made no attempt to disperse the -mob, though they were in plain sight. Deponent further says that he has -lived in the 19th Precinct for about eighteen years, and is well known -to a number of the officers of that precinct. - -J. H. KELLUM. - -Sworn to before me this 7th day of September, 1900. - -GEO. P. HAMMOND, JR., Notary Public (164), N. Y. County. - -(This was in the 19th, not the 20th Precinct.) - - ---- - -_City and County of New York, ss._: - -Samuel Isaiah Johnson, being duly sworn, deposes and says: - -I reside at No. 125 West 27th Street, in the Borough of Manhattan, -and support myself by cleaning carpet, chimney sweeping, and other -jobs of a like nature. I have been employed by a Mr. Webb, an attorney -with an office near Jefferson Market; a Mr. Davis, proprietor of a -fish market there; Mr. Andrew Phillips, 15th Street and 6th Avenue. On -Wednesday. August 15th, 1900, the first night of the riots, I was on -an 8th Avenue car bound south. I had been up to see my brother-in-law, -Joseph W. Brown, of No. 85 West 104th Street. I had my banjo with me. I -left there shortly after nine. He was out. About ten o'clock, at about -41st Street and 8th Avenue, a crowd jumped on the car, grabbed me, -and tried to pull me out of the car. I was under the seat. They took -my banjo, hat, coat, and belt away, and beat me all over the body and -head, so that I was unable to move. The car was at a standstill while -I was being beaten, which lasted from about fifteen to twenty minutes. -Another colored man was being beaten at the same time. After about -twenty minutes of this a man, probably a detective, jumped on the car, -and the crowd allowed the car to proceed. He took me to the corner of -27th Street and 7th Avenue, and asked me whether I could get home, and -he left me. I proceeded to my house unmolested. The next day I went to -the hospital at 15th Street and 5th Avenue, and obtained some liniment -for my bruises. I am fifty-four years of age, small in stature, and -lame. - -SAMUEL x ISAIAH JOHNSON. - his mark - -Sworn to before me this 6th day of September, 1900. - -SAMUEL MARCUS, Notary Public, N. Y. County. - - ---- - -_City and County of New York, ss._: - -Thomas Hughes (white), of No. 646 East 13th Street, New York City, -being duly sworn, deposes and says: - -On August 15th, 1900 (the first day of the outbreak), about 8:45 P. -M., I was in 36th Street between 7th and 8th Avenues. I was on my -way home after having called on Rev. Leighton Williams, at 312 West -54th Street. There were quite a number of persons moving about in the -street, and half a dozen policemen moving about. I noticed a colored -man about five feet seven, smooth-faced, about twenty-eight or thirty -years old, standing in front of a doorway near a grocery store. He -wasn't doing anything, and wasn't talking to anybody. An officer with a -heavy reddish mustache rushed across the street at him and said, "You -black bastard, what are you doing here?" and at the same instant struck -him over the head with his club, felling the Negro to the street. The -Negro bled and lay unconscious. I tried to wipe the blood from him, and -the officer spoke roughly to me and ordered me away. Friends of the -Negro dragged him into the hallway. My journey was down 8th Avenue to -36th Street, and down 7th Avenue to 35th Street, and I saw a number of -police officers strike a number of persons with their clubs. All whom I -saw struck were colored persons, and I noticed that as a peculiar fact. -I was accompanied by William Shea, of 332 East 23rd Street. - -THOMAS HUGHES. - -Sworn to before me this 30th day of September, 1900. - -FRANK MOSS, Notary Public, N. Y. County. - - ---- - -_City and County of New York, ss._: - -William Shea, of 332 East 23rd Street, being duly sworn, deposes and -says: - -I work for John P. Kane, foot of East 14th Street. On the first day of -the riot, August 15th, I was with Thomas Hughes. I had been with him to -see the Rev. Mr. Williams, in West 54th Street. We returned through 8th -Avenue and went through 36th Street. In 36th Street, between 7th and -8th Avenues, we saw a colored man standing. An officer rushed across -the street and hit the colored man on the head and felled him to the -sidewalk. The colored man was not doing anything. The officer was a -heavy man with large red mustache. My friend stopped to assist the man, -and the officer ordered him away. Some people from the house close -by pulled the colored man in. He was unconscious. I saw a number of -colored people struck by officers. - -WILLIAM SHEA. - -Sworn to before me this 30th day of August, 1900. - -FRANK MOSS, Notary Public, N. Y. County. - - ---- - -Statement of Paul Leitenberger and Alfred E. Borman (white), of 105 -East 22nd Street: - -On August 15th we were on 28th Street, and were going home, walking up -7th Avenue, and at 29th Street a crowd was coming down about ten P. -M. We followed the crowd up 35th Street, and it went into the Dorê -(a dive), and yelled, "Give us a coon and we'll lynch him!" They then -went to Corbett's on Broadway. He has a colored man working for him. -Then the police came with their clubs and dispersed the crowd, which -went up Broadway. A cable car was coming downtown, and some one cried, -"There's a nigger; lynch him!" and several white men jumped on the car. -A colored man was standing in the car, and with a cane or umbrella -warded off the blows. The car went on with him; the gripman would not -stop it, though they called on him to stop. Some of the men were thrown -off of the car and nearly run over. There was a Negro on the second -car behind that, and the crowd pulled him off, and the man escaped by -running into the Marlborough Hotel, where he was sheltered. There were -no policemen present at these times, but some policemen appeared and -the mob moved up Broadway to about 41st Street, and tried to get into -the Vendome Hotel. Some got in, and one cried out, "Give us the coon!" -The police coming up, they moved on and went up as far as the Hotel -Cadillac at 43rd Street, and went in to get the colored hall man, and -an officer came up and clubbed right and left. Other officers came and -the crowd scattered. We waited a half hour, and the police kept the -people moving. We walked through 42nd Street to 8th Avenue, and saw -more of the rioters, and several policemen would not allow them to make -any disturbance, and the rioters spread, breaking up. The whole aim of -the rioters was to catch Negroes. We saw Devery the first night. We -didn't see him the second night. He was in command. We observed the -first night that the police generally made no effort to disperse the -crowds, but ran along with them. The only places where they attacked -the crowds were at Corbett's and the Cadillac. The disturbing element -were young fellows, such as frequent "Hell's Kitchen." We talked with -a ringleader at the northeast corner of 28th Street and 8th Avenue, -a few nights after. He said he had been a leader in the riots and -would do it again--that the "niggers" must be treated the same as down -South. At the Cadillac there was an officer who did splendid work in -dispersing the crowd. For a while he was alone, and he clubbed the -crowd indiscriminately; in a little while two other officers came and -helped him, and those three men ejected the mob from the hotel, and -when they were in the street other officers appeared and effectually -dispersed the crowd. This showed what could be done when they wanted -to. They protected the hotel in good shape, also Corbett's, when the -mob tried to get in. - -PAUL LEITENBERGER. -ALFRED E. BORMAN. - -Sworn to before me this 13th day of September, 1900. - -FRANK MOSS, Notary Public, N. Y. County. - - ---- - -Statement of Frank H. Bertholf (white), 463 West 44th Street: - -On the evening of August 16th, 1900, I saw several Negroes kicked and -cuffed unnecessarily. Not a white man was touched. All happened in five -or ten minutes. Not many Negroes appeared, but when one came in sight -he was pounced upon by the crowd, and the policemen made no effort to -take care of them, and when they got hold of them they treated them -roughly. I saw two Negroes struck by rioters while in the hands of -officers, and the officers made no effort to protect them. I saw an -officer aim a very vicious blow with his club at a colored man; it -seemed it would kill him, but the Negro dodged. - -FRANK H. BERTHOLF. - - ---- - -_City and County of New York, ss._: - -Miss Alice Lee, being duly sworn, deposes and says: - -I reside at 433 West 36th Street (in the rear of the 37th Street -station house). On the night of Wednesday, August 15th, 1900, also -Thursday, the 16th, I heard people screaming and groaning, and shouts -of people pleading not to be clubbed any more. I saw one man lying on -the station house floor, apparently almost helpless. One man who was -pleading seemed to be between the main building and the out building -where the cells are located. An officer who was on one of the upper -floors leaned out of the window and threw a bottle down at the said -man, saying, "Kill the black son of a b----!" Deponent further declared -that it was impossible to sleep during both of the aforesaid nights on -account of the heartrending shrieks and groans coming from the station -house; and further, that she saw a number of colored men lying up in a -corner of the station house. - -ALICE LEE. - -Sworn to before me this 20th day of September, 1900. - -GEO. P. HAMMOND, JR., Notary Public (164), N. Y. County. - - ---- - -_City and County of New York, ss._: - -Cynthia Randolph, being duly sworn, deposes and says: - -I reside at 433 West 36th Street, New York City, Manhattan Borough. -My home is directly in the rear of the 37th Street station house. On -the evening of Wednesday, August 15th, 1900, and the evening of August -16th, 1900, I heard cries and shrieks of people being beaten, coming -from the 37th Street station house--such groans as, "O Lord! O Lord! -don't hit me! don't hit me!" spoken in pleading tones. This continued -all of Wednesday night, with such frequency, and was so heartrending, -as to make it impossible to sleep. It was not quite so bad Thursday -evening. Deponent states further that it is a common thing to hear -coming from the 37th Street station house cries of people, as if they -were being beaten, except since last Labor Day; since which day it has -been exceptionally quiet. - -CYNTHIA RANDOLPH. - -Sworn to before me this 15th day of September, 1900. - -GEO. P. HAMMOND. JR., Notary Public (164), N. Y. County. - - ---- - -_City and County of New York, ss._: - -Mrs. Florence Randolph, being duly sworn, deposes and says: - -I reside at 117 West 134th Street. On Wednesday, August 15th, 1900, I -resided at 433 West 36th Street. On the said 15th of August I was ill -in bed, and while I lay in bed I heard at different intervals during -the night, and until about three or half past three the next morning, -the screams and shouts as of persons in agony, and cries of "Why are -you hitting me? I haven't done anything!" Deponent states that these -cries and screams came from the 37th Street station house, the rear of -which abuts on the rear of the house in which deponent then resided. -Deponent states further that her husband was unable to reach his home -for four nights on account of the disorder in that neighborhood. -Further, that her husband works at 43rd Street and 5th Avenue. - -FLORENCE RANDOLPH. - -Sworn to before me this 12th day of September, 1900. - -GEO. P. HAMMOND, JR., Notary Public (164), N. Y. County. - - ---- - -_City and County of New York, ss._: - -Susie White, being duly sworn, deposes and says: - -I reside at 444 7th Avenue, New York City. On Sunday morning, August -12th, 1900, about six A. M., two officers in full uniform -came upstairs and, pushing the door of my room open, said, "Did not a -man come up here just now?" I answered, "Yes." The officer then said, -"Where is he? Bring him out." I then started to call the man, but -before I got to the room the officer had preceded me, and he called the -man out (his name is Joe Netherland) and took hold of him, and rubbing -his hand over his head said, "Got a scar?" Netherland said, "No. Who -are you looking for--the man that cut the officer?" The officer said, -"Yes. We're going to make it hot for you niggers!" After making a -further examination they found two more men, and after making a close -examination of them they found that they were not the men they wanted. -After threatening to do up all the "niggers" for killing Officer Thorpe -they left. - -SUSIE WHITE. - -Sworn to before me this 10th day of September, 1900. - -GEO. P. HAMMOND, JR., Notary Public (164), N. Y. County. - - ---- - -_City and County of New York, ss._: - -John Hains, being duly sworn, deposes and says: - -I reside at No. 341 West 36th Street. I am a laborer, and am at present -employed as a longshoreman at Pier 16, North River. On the evening of -August 15th, 1900, I went to bed as usual at 9:30 o'clock. About two -o'clock in the morning I was awakened by somebody beating me on the -back with a club. When I awoke I found six policemen in the room; they -had broken in the door. They asked me for the revolver with which they -said I had been shooting out of the window. I told them I did not have -a revolver. One of the officers said that he had seen me shoot out -of the window. Three officers then began to club me, while the other -three were searching the house. They found an old toy revolver, which -was broken and not loaded, and could not shoot if it had been loaded, -and said that that was the pistol I had used. I denied that, which was -the truth. They dragged me out of the house, and proceeded to take me -to the station house. I was only in my undershirt, being asleep at the -time they broke into the house, and begged them to allow me to put on -my trousers and my shoes. They only sneered at this, and one of the -officers said, "You'll be d----d lucky if you get there alive." Here -another of the officers pulled out a revolver and said, "Let's shoot -the d----d nigger," to which a third officer replied, "We can take the -black son of a b---- to the station house as he is." When I got to the -station house I was bleeding from my head and other parts of my body, -as a result of these clubbings. There were only two other persons in -our apartments that evening--William Seymour, from whom I rent my -apartments, and Walter Gregory. When they saw the officers running -into the house, acting as they did, they ran out of the house, leaving -me asleep. They did not shoot out of the window, and we never kept -any weapons in the house. Mrs. Lucy Jones, who lives next door to us, -saw the officers beat me. She was in the house during all this time, -and saw no firing from our windows. Her affidavit is hereto annexed. -When I arrived at the station house, after the entry had been made on -the blotter, I was placed in a cell. Before this I was struck by one -of the officers in the station house in front of the sergeant's desk, -and in his presence, without any interference on his part. After T was -placed in the cell somebody (I believe the police surgeon) bandaged my -head. The next morning the police loaned me a pair of old trousers, so -that I could be taken to the Police Court. Officer Ohm, one of the -officers who struck me and abused me, as aforesaid, made the charge -against me; he charged me with firing a pistol through the window. I -was brought before the magistrate and he asked me if this was so. I -told him it was not, and endeavored to explain matters to him, but he -would not listen to me and sent me to the Penitentiary for six months. -There were a great many similar cases before him that day, and he was -very impatient. I did not have a lawyer to represent me, and I was -given no opportunity to deny the false charges of the officer. While -I was being taken to the station house one of the officers said to -another officer who was clubbing me, "Club as hard as you can; this is -a d----d hard head." Another said, "I will teach you d----d niggers to -club white people. We will kill half of you." I have the sheet which -was on the bed on the night in question. It is full of blood stains. I -had six stitches put into my head by a surgeon at the building in which -the Magistrates' Court is located on 54th Street. This was before I -was taken to Blackwell's Island. After I had been there ten days I was -released. I do not know the reason why. Sentenced August 16th, released -August 25th, about eight A. M. The only one of the officers I -could recognize is Officer Ohm, who made the formal complaint in the -Magistrates' Court. I was almost beaten into insensibility that night, -and all of the officers were in uniform. Last summer I was employed for -the season as a butler by General O. O. Howard, at his summer home in -Burlington, Vermont, and I have a recommendation from him. I am not a -drinking man, and never was arrested before in my life. - -JOHN HAINS. - -Sworn to before me this 28th day of August, 1900. - -GEO. P. HAMMOND, JR., Notary Public (164), N. Y. County. - - ---- - -_City and County of New York, ss._: - -Walter Gregory, being duly sworn, deposes and says: - -I reside at 107 Prince Street, Brooklyn. On August 15th, 1900, I was -boarding with Mr. Seymour at 341 West 36th Street. John Hains, Mr. -Seymour, and myself were sitting together at our home until about nine -o'clock that evening, when Hains went to bed. Mr. Seymour and I were -up until about one o'clock, when we went to bed. In the early part of -the evening there was a lot of shouting going on in 36th Street, but I -heard no shooting. About two o'clock in the morning we were awakened -by shooting in front of the house. Seymour and I walked to the window -and looked out to see what was the matter. I did not see any colored -people on the street at that time, and the shooting was evidently done -by white people. Just then I heard somebody break open the front door -of the house. There were several people; they were talking in a noisy -manner, but I could not hear what they said. As they reached our door -some one rapped on it, and said, "Open the door." I said, "I can't." -Mr. Seymour and I hurriedly ran to the fire escape undressed. As we -did so we passed Hains, who was fast asleep. I shook him and said, -"A big crowd is coming in the house." I do not think he heard what I -said, and he fell asleep again. Seymour and I went down the fire escape -and into the yard at 339, where we remained until matters had quieted -down a little. I could hear Hains say repeatedly, "Don't kill me!" The -people in the houses were screaming. About three or four o'clock, when -things were quiet again, we went back to our room. The bed in which -Hains slept was all bloody. Mrs. Jones, who lived next door, and whose -affidavit is hereto annexed, then told me what had happened--precisely -the same as in her affidavit hereto annexed. I did not know that the -people who broke into the house were policemen. I thought they were -the rioters. The pistol found in the apartments was an old broken toy -pistol, and could not shoot. We never had a razor or a pistol in the -house. While the shooting was going on Hains was fast asleep, and -there was no shooting from our windows. I am employed at present on -the steamer _Shinnecock_, of the Montauk Steamboat Company, as second -pantryman. I have never been arrested in my life. Since this riot we -have not lived at 341 West 36th Street, our home having been broken up -by it. - -WALTER GREGORY. - -Sworn to before me this 6th day of September, 1900. - -SAMUEL MARCUS, Notary Public, N. Y. County. - - ---- - -_City and County of New York, ss._: - -William H. Seymour, of 70 Vanderbilt Avenue, Brooklyn, being duly -sworn, deposes and says: - -I am employed at Pier 16, E. R. I resided at 341 West 36th Street, New -York City, from September, 1899, until August 16th, 1900. At no time -during the period above mentioned were there any firearms in the house -other than an old broken revolver which was in two pieces, having no -cartridges and being entirely useless. Deponent further states that he -saw the sheet of bed upon which John Hains was lying and found same -to be stained with blood. This was about 4:30 on the morning of August -16th, 1900. - -WM. H. SEYMOUR. - -Sworn to before me this 6th day of September, 1900. - - ---- - -_City and County of New York, ss._: - -Lucy A. Jones, being duly sworn, deposes and says: - -I reside at 341 West 36th Street, on the fourth floor front, west -side. John Hains resides on the same floor on the east side. I have -read his affidavit, which is hereto annexed, and so far as it relates -to the occurrences at said address on the evening of August 15th it -is true. I had only returned to the city at six o'clock that evening, -having been in the country for two months. I had been in the house, -looking out of the window occasionally. I saw shooting in the street, -but this was all done by white people. There were no colored people -on the street. This shooting was done mostly by white people living -at 342 West 36th Street, which is a tenement, and is occupied by a -very low class of rowdies, who have constantly abused and insulted -the colored residents of the block. The police officers constantly go -in and out of this house. On the night in question I saw a great many -police officers enter this house and talk with its occupants. They were -shouting and using abusive language, and saying, "Kill every d----d one -of the niggers!" "Set the house afire!" etc., etc. About two o'clock -in the morning I heard somebody at the door of Mr. Seymour's flat next -door, saying, "G-- d-- you; open this door, or I'll kill every d----d -nigger in the house." Mr. Hains, who was the only one in the house just -then, was asleep, and he did not open the door. They broke the door -open, and I saw them club Hains and accuse him of firing a pistol out -of the window. He denied this. Then three of the officers beat him, -while the other three were searching the house. They did not find any -pistol there, so they came into my apartments, and one of them said to -me, "You G-- d-- black son of a b----, you know a lot about this d----d -shooting, and if you don't tell me I'll blow the brains out of you." -I told them that they could look through my flat, which they did, but -did not find anything. Then they went back to the Seymour flat, and I -heard one of the officers say, "I've got the revolver; let's kill the -G-- d-- son of a b----," and began to club him in the head and other -parts of his body unmercifully. He begged them to allow him to put on -his clothes, but the one who had the revolver said, "Shoot the d----d -nigger," and he was led to the station house only in his undershirt. -Another officer said, "You will be glad if you get there alive." At -one time during this fracas I attempted to look into the Seymour flat -to see what was going on, but one of the officers said to me, "You G-- -d-- black b----, get back where you belong, or I'll club the brains out -of you." After they left I went into the room, and I found the pillows -and sheet on the bed full of blood stains. The people in 342 inspired -the policemen, telling them to "Burn the house!" "Lynch the d----d -niggers!" etc., etc. I am a widow. My daughter, who is about twenty-one -years of age, saw this clubbing, and heard the police use this vile -and abusive language. After they had arrested Hains I looked out of my -window to see how he was being led by the officers. One of the rowdies -in 342 said, "Look at the d----d nigger wench looking out of the -window. Shoot her! Shoot her!" - -LUCY A. JONES. - -Sworn to before me this 28th day of August, 1900. - -STEPHEN B. BRAGUE, Notary Public (125), N. Y. County. - - ---- - -_City and County of New York, ss._: - -Mrs. Louisa Francis, 341 West 36th Street, being duly sworn, deposes -and says: - -I have been housekeeper of the said 341 West 36th Street for the past -eleven years. On Thursday, August 16th, 1900, at two o'clock A. -M., I heard a number of pistol shots in the street near my home, -and heard shouts of "Go into 341, break in the doors, kill the black -sons of b----s"--all the said shouts apparently coming from the -direction of 342 across the street. Almost immediately thereafter the -doors were broken in, the glass in said doors being smashed, and about -seven police officers rushed into the house and commenced shooting and -yelling, "Kill the black sons of b----s!" "Put your heads in there, or -we'll blow them off!" They went to the fourth floor, where John Hains -lived, and dragged him out by the shoulders, his feet dragging, and -in that condition he was dragged out into the street. I washed up the -blood down from the fourth floor down the staircase to and on each and -every landing and including the vestibule. The officers, after staying -some time in the house, and ordering Mrs. Freeman, Mrs. Mason, and Mrs. -Jones to open their doors, and after searching the same, crossed over -the roof to 339 and went through that house. - -MRS. LOUISA FRANCIS. - -Sworn to before me this 28th day of August, 1900. - -GEO. P. HAMMOND, JR., Notary Public (164), N. Y. County. - - ---- - -_City and County of New York, ss._: - -Josephine Bullock, being duly sworn, deposes and says: - -I reside at 351 West 36th Street. On Wednesday, August 15th, 1900, -about 9:30 o'clock P. M., I saw a crowd chase a colored man and -beat him, on the corner of 9th Avenue and 36th Street. The said man -succeeded in breaking away from the mob, and ran towards my house. When -he reached the stoop some of the male tenants who were seated on the -stoop told him to come in there, adding that "if they kill one they -might as well kill all of them." All during the evening the rioting -continued, and from the rear of the house I heard screams and groans -coming from the houses facing on 37th Street. About two o'clock A. -M. I heard shooting in the street, and in a short while after I saw -two police officers dragging a colored man from 341 West 36th Street, -who had on no clothing except a gauze undershirt. The officers were -clubbing the colored man, and the man was begging them not to club him, -as he had done nothing. The only answer he got was more blows and a -reply from one of the officers as follows: "Shut up, you black son of a -b----, or I'll kill you." Deponent states further that she got no sleep -that night, as the screaming and rioting continued until about half -past two or three A. M., when a violent storm came up, and the noise -subsided somewhat. - -JOSEPHINE x BULLOCK. - her mark - -Sworn to before me this 10th day of September, 1900. - -GEO. P. HAMMOND, JR., Notary Public (164), N. Y. County. - - ---- - -_City and County of New York, ss._: - -Mrs. Maggie Zeh, being duly sworn, deposes and says: - -I reside at 351 West 36th Street. On Wednesday, August 15th, 1900, I -saw a colored man trying to get away from the mob, who were beating -him. He tried to get into No. 360, but could not. I then saw the -officers who had been standing on the corner of 9th Avenue and 36th -Street run towards this man and immediately commenced clubbing him. -They clubbed him so unmercifully that the man cried out, "For God's -sake kill me and be done with it; don't beat me in this manner," and -the last I saw of him they were taking him around into 9th Avenue -towards the station house. I also saw a mob coming from 9th Avenue, -with about ten or twelve officers in uniform in the lead. The officers -were shooting up towards the houses on the north side of the street. -Deponent declares that she heard no shooting until the officers came -into sight and commenced to shoot at the houses. Deponent further -states that between eleven or twelve o'clock she saw a colored man -and a woman come from a house on the west side of 9th Avenue. Before -this couple reached 9th Avenue she noticed two policemen, who had been -standing on the southeast corner of 9th Avenue and 36th Street, enter -the saloon on that corner. When the couple had passed the saloon some -men who were in citizens' clothes ran into the saloon, and immediately -came out again with the aforementioned officers, and pointed to the -couple going up the street, and said something to the officers. The -officers then followed the said couple up the street to 8th Avenue, -where I lost sight of them for about two minutes. At the expiration -of that time I looked towards 8th Avenue and I saw the same policemen -turning the corner, having in custody the aforementioned couple, and -when they reached the front of my house I saw that the man was bleeding -and was handcuffed. The woman attempted to speak, when she was ordered -with an oath to "shut up." While the officers who were previously -mentioned as doing the shooting in 36th Street, the officer who was -apparently in command and who wore a cap, and had all the appearance -of either a sergeant or a captain, shouted, "Get your heads in out of -there if you value your lives." Deponent further states that she has -read the affidavit of Josephine Bullock, which affidavit is hereto -attached, and she knows of her own knowledge that matters therein -stated are true. - -MRS. MAGGIE ZEH. - -Sworn to before me this 10th day of September, 1900. - -GEO. P. HAMMOND, JR., Notary Public (164), N. Y. County. - - ---- - -_City and County of New York, ss._: - -Richard A. Taylor, being duly sworn, deposes and says: - -I reside at 339 West 36th Street; that on Wednesday, August 15th, -1900, I left my home at about 12:15 P. M. to go to my work, -as Pullman porter on West Shore R. R.; that when I left my home I -left on the shelf in the closet in the front room of my suite between -sixty and seventy dollars in bills, which money I was saving to pay -my tuition in college next winter; further, my wife did not know that -the money was there; that on my return Saturday, August 18th, 1900, -between five and six P. M., I was told by my wife of a visit -of police officers, about eight in number, each of whom had a revolver -in his hand, and who wanted to know if there was a man in the rooms. -They were told that there was, and were shown Floyd Wallace, whom they -took out with them. They also asked for any firearms, and when told -that there were none demanded that a light be made so that they could -search. While the light was being brought some of the officers went -into the front room and forced open the closet. After they were gone my -wife remembered having left her pocketbook in a small satchel on the -floor. She immediately ran to the front room, and opening the satchel -found that all the money had been taken from her pocketbook except some -silver. Deponent on hearing of this immediately went to look for his -money and found it gone. - -RICHARD A. TAYLOR. - -Sworn to before me this 6th day of September, 1900. - -GEO. P. HAMMOND, JR., Notary Public (164), N. Y. County. - - ---- - -_City and County of New York, ss._: - -Mrs. Margaret Taylor, being duly sworn, deposes and says: - -I reside at 339 West 36th Street. On Thursday, August 16th, 1900, -about two A. M., while lying on a lounge in the front room of -my house, I was aroused by hearing a shot fired, followed by several -others. I went to the window, when some one in the street shouted with -a curse, "Get your head in there or I'll shoot it off." I withdrew my -head, and then realized that some of the shots had entered my windows. -One imbedded itself in the ceiling, and another passed through a glass -door leading into an inner room, and occupied by a lodger named Floyd -Wallace. I awoke the said Wallace, and told him that some one was -firing into the windows. Shortly after I heard sounds as of a number of -people coming down the stairs from the roof, past my door, and stopping -on the floor below me. In a very short while they returned, and without -asking to be let in broke open my door, and then I saw that they were -police officers in full uniform, six in number. They asked me if I -knew who fired the shots. I said I did not know. They then told me I -lied. Then they asked me if there were any guns in the house, and I -answered no; whereupon I was again told that I lied. I then said, "All -right, go ahead and search for them," which they proceeded to do. They -went from room to room, and broke into a closet in the front room, -which contained my husband's and my own clothes; they then opened a -small satchel in which was my pocketbook. In the said pocketbook I had -six dollars in bills and one dollar and seventy-five cents in silver. -While part of the men were making the search the others seized the -aforesaid Wallace and took him out into the hallway, where deponent -has been told they clubbed the said Wallace on the wrist and face. -When he came in, after the officers left, deponent saw that his face -and cheek were bruised and his wrist swollen. Deponent declares it to -be her belief that the bullets which were shot into her room (one of -which she has) could not have been fired from the street, but must have -come from the houses opposite. Further, that when the officers left -she remembered having left her pocketbook in the aforesaid satchel, -and immediately ran into the front room to see if it was safe; she -found that the six dollars in bills was gone, and declares it to be -her belief that the same was taken by the three officers who were in -the room making the search. Deponent further states that when her -husband returned on the following Saturday she told him of the visit -of the police officers. He then searched in the closet for some money, -amounting to about sixty dollars, which he stated to have left there -without my knowledge, and could not find it. Deponent declares it to -be her belief that this money was also taken by the police officers -aforementioned. Deponent further declares that there were no shots -fired from her apartments, and that no one therein had a firearm of any -sort. - -MAGGIE TAYLOR. - -Sworn to before me this 7th day of September, 1900. - -GEO. P. HAMMOND, JR., Notary Public (164). N. Y. County. - - ---- - -_City and County of New York, ss._: - -Floyd Wallace, being duly sworn, deposes and says: - -I live at 339 West 36th Street. On Thursday, August 16th, 1900, at -about 2:30 A. M., I was awakened by Mrs. Taylor, who said that -they were shooting in the windows. I immediately arose and dressed, -and went into the kitchen. I heard some one screaming, "Don't hit me -like that!" and crying as if being beaten. A short while after I heard -some one coming over the roof from the house next door (No. 341), and -when they reached our door they without any ceremony, and without -asking to be let in, broke in the door. I then saw that they were -police officers in full uniform. They then asked if there was any man -in the house, and was told there was; upon hearing which I stepped to -the kitchen door and was immediately seized upon and taken out into the -hallway by two of the officers. They started downstairs with me, when -one of the officers said, "Wait a minute," and without first telling -me to stop they struck me over the arm and on the wrist. The rest of -the officers then searched through the rooms, and while they were -engaged one of the officers who was with me, without saying a word, -jabbed his stick in my face, just missing my eye, and striking me on -the cheek bone, under the eye, making a painful bruise. I was perfectly -sober, and was sleeping in bed from about 11:30 P. M. till -within about five minutes of the time of the visit of the police. I -made no resistance, said nothing to them, and showed by my actions a -willingness to do as they wished me to. After the officers had finished -their search they turned me loose. - -FLOYD WALLACE. - -Sworn to before me this 7th day of September, 1900. - -GEO. P. HAMMOND, JR., Notary Public (164), N. Y. County. - - ---- - -_City and County of New York, ss._: - -Lloyd Lee, being duly sworn, deposes and says: - -I reside at 200 West 37th Street. On Wednesday, August 15th, 1900, -about ten o'clock P. M., I was up about West 41st Street near -7th Avenue, when I saw considerable rioting going on, and immediately -made an attempt to get to my home, going to 8th Avenue, thence to 38th -Street, and thence to 7th Avenue, and had got to within thirty yards -of my home when I heard footsteps in the gravel behind me; I turned -around and saw a man hatless and in citizen's clothes coming after me; -thinking he was a rioter, I jumped aside and asked him what was the -matter. He did not answer, but struck me over the head with his club, -and when I tried to run away he struck me again. Finding I could not -get away, I drew the only weapon I had, namely, a small pocketknife, -and cut at him with it. He then drew his revolver, and shot me in the -mouth and in the arm. I then run to any front door and slammed it -shut, and then opened the inner door, and saw no one around, but I saw -a revolver lying on the front steps. I picked it up and took it with -me to the roof. After reaching the roof I sank down and knew nothing -further until the next day, when I found myself in Bellevue Hospital. -I was taken to the 54th Street court and from there remanded to the -Tombs, where I remained until September 25th, 1900, when I was brought -to Part I, where I was discharged. - -LLOYD LEE. - -Sworn to before me this 1st day of October, 1900. - -GEO. P. HAMMOND, JR., Notary Public (164), N. Y. County. - -(The Grand Jury refused to indict Lloyd Lee.) - - ---- - -_City and County of New York, ss._: - -Mrs. Nettie Threewitts, being duly sworn, deposes and says that she -resides at No. 200 West 37th Street; that on Wednesday, August 15th, -1900, about half past ten, she was preparing to retire, when her -stepfather, Lloyd Lee, came to her door, and she asked him what was -the matter. He replied, "Nettie, I'm shot!" He then ran to the roof. -Almost immediately after she heard two men come into the hallway, and -one said, "Get your revolver out!" They then came up to the hallway -where I was standing, and I saw that one was an officer in uniform -and one in citizen's clothes, a stout man. I asked them, "What's the -matter?" They said, "Where's that man?" I answered, "I don't know." -They then said, "Who is the man?" I answered, "He's my stepfather." The -man in citizen's clothes then said, "She's got blood on her; take her; -she's a prisoner." I then said, "You are not going to take me without -any clothes on?" He answered, "You don't need any clothes." I was then -brought downstairs and kept on the stoop until the patrol wagon came, -where a number of officers who were standing there called me a "black -b----," and one of them struck me in the head with his fist, another -one deliberately spit in my face, and another took his helmet and -jabbed it into my eye. This officer's number was either No. 3062 or -3064. The latter occurred while I was on my way to the West 54th Street -police court. Among the other remarks which were made to me was, "They -ought to burn up all the nigger ranches;" "Shut up, you're a w----, the -same as the rest of them." I was kept in the station house without any -additional clothes for about two hours, when a woman who lives on 41st -Street gave me an underskirt, which I put on. I was then brought into -the room back of the main room, and from there was taken back into a -cell. I was arraigned in the 54th Street police court and held in $500 -bail for trial. Mr. R. T. Varnum went on my bond. - -NETTIE THREEWITTS. - -Sworn to before me this 19th day of September, 1900. - -GEO. P. HAMMOND, JR., Notary Public (164), N. Y. County. - - ---- - -_City and County of New York, ss._: - -William Devan, being duly sworn, deposes and says: - -I reside at 403 West 29th Street. On Wednesday, August 15th, 1900, -about half past ten, while walking on 8th Avenue, between 28th and 29th -Streets, I was attacked by a mob and shoved through a glass show case, -cutting my head severely. I managed to get away from the mob and run -towards 8th Avenue and 28th Street, where I was stopped by a policeman, -who grabbed me, and the mob coming up at that moment some of them -shouted, "Arrest him; he has just broken a show case." I replied that I -did not, but that I had been shoved through it. The officer said, "Shut -up, or I'll shove this stick down your throat." He then took me to the -station house in West 37th Street, where I was detained from 10:30 P. M. -till four A. M. the next day. While in the station house I saw a man -brought in who had nothing on but an undershirt, and who was bleeding -from wounds in his head. I also saw Lee brought in, and saw the surgeon -administer an injection, and put him into the ambulance, saying, "This -fellow is almost gone," and rushed him off to the hospital. I also saw -Miss Lee, the aforementioned man's daughter, who was brought to the -station house with nothing but her nightgown on, and one of the women -in the station house loaned her a dress to put on. - -WILLIAM DEVAN. - -Sworn to before me this 11th day of September, 1900. - -GEO. P. HAMMOND, JR., Notary Public (164), N. Y. County. - - ---- - -_City and County of New York, ss._: - -William Hopson, being duly sworn, deposes and says: - -I reside at 229 West 60th Street. I am engaged in the jewelry business, -and am night engineer at the Scarborough Apartment House, 221 West -57th Street. On Sunday, August 26th, 1900, in the afternoon, I was -standing a little way from my door, about ten yards, and saw Officer -4600 walking on 60th Street from 10th to 11th Avenue. After he passed -me he met a platoon of policemen who were coming from 11th Avenue -towards 10th Avenue, and turned back with them. Opposite 225 West -60th Street there were two colored men sitting in front of the door. -Officer 4600 came over and without warning struck one of them. As he -did so the other one ran into the house. The man he was beating also -attempted to run in, but he ran after him striking him on the head with -his fist. (This was James A. Scott, 225 West 60th Street.) He then came -over to me, struck me on the side of the head, and said, "What are -you doing here?" I said, "I am looking on," and attempted to go into -my apartments. He followed me and struck me with his clenched hand on -my head. This was within five feet of my door. Here he was joined by -two other officers, one of whom struck me a blow with his club, full -force on the head and eye, and I was unable to see anything with that -eye for some time after; it is bloodshot still. I held on to the iron -railing in front of 231, to protect myself in that way if I could. As -I did so two more officers came. Three of them were clubbing me, and -4600 was striking me with his fist. The officer who struck me in the -eye with his club was about 6 feet 2 inches tall. They tore my coat and -broke my hat. Some one attempted to hand me my hat as they knocked it -off, but one of the officers knocked it out of the person's hand with -his club, and said, "Never mind the hat." This was as I was being led -to the station house. When we reached No. 227 Officer 4600, who had me -in charge, saw Mr. Myers, the janitor of 227, standing in front of the -door with his wife and several other persons. Mr. Myers is a colored -man. Officer 4600 turned me over to another officer and said, "Take my -prisoner to the station house." The officer replied, "No, don't take -him there." 4600 insisted, and the officer obeyed. When Officer 4600 -went over to Myers he wanted to strike him. Myers is a sick man and -just got out of the hospital. His wife pleaded with the officer not to -strike him, whereupon the officer turned Myers loose and raised his -club to strike his wife. One of the other officers told 4600 not to -strike that woman. Then five or six officers jumped on Myers with their -clubs. There were about ten policemen altogether. 4600 struck him with -his fist. One officer broke his club into pieces on Myers' head. Myers -was taken to Roosevelt Hospital. He told me in court the next day that -as he was passing 60th Street and 10th Avenue they saw a colored man -having his shoes shined. 4600 said to him, "See that black nigger? If -I didn't have you I would drag him out and lay his head open the same -as yours." Myers told me that the doctor at the hospital recognized -him and asked him what was the matter. The officer told Myers to "shut -up," and said to the doctor, "That is my prisoner." I was taken to -the station house, where the officer who brought me there made the -complaint against me for Officer 4600. He told the sergeant I "showed -fight." I was not told what the formal charge against me was. The -sergeant asked me nothing but the usual questions, what my name was, -etc. I was bleeding from my eye. The colored people and the whites on -this street have always been very friendly, and are so even now. There -never was any trouble until these officers raised the disturbance on -that day. Officer 4600 started the thing. Some of the tenants of Nos. -227, 229, and 231 saw this outrageous treatment on the part of the -policemen. We were discharged in court the next day, after 4600 had -made his complaint to the magistrate. I have been in New York for over -eight years, and have never been arrested before in my life. I was -employed in Harris & Flippin's sporting goods store in Richmond, Va., -for two years; I was employed by Oscar Miller, 154 Chambers Street, -coffee and spice dealer, for ten months at his residence in Sing Sing; -I was employed by C. E. Vedder, druggist, at 116th Street and Madison -Avenue, for three years; I was employed by Andrew Lester, of 56th -Street and 8th Avenue, at the Washington Apartments, for ten months; -I was employed by the Goldsoll Diamond Palace, 14th Street, about two -years; W. P. Unger, dealer in essence oils, 18 Cedar Street, for ten -months; Van Boskerck & Wilson, 132 West 21st Street, dressmakers, for -ten months. I am now employed by Mr. Condit, of the firm of Acker, -Merrill & Condit, at the Scarborough Apartment House, 221 West 57th -Street. I have been so employed for about two years. I did nothing -which justified my arrest or this action on the part of the police. - -WILLIAM HOPSON. - -Sworn to before me this 31st day of August, 1900. - -GEO. P. HAMMOND. JR., Notary Public (164), N. Y. County. - - ---- - -_City and County of New York, ss._: - -George L. Myers, being duly sworn, deposes and says that he resides -at 227 West 60th Street, Manhattan Borough, New York City; that on -Sunday, August 26th, 1900, at about half past one, he went downstairs, -hearing a noise, and being janitor of No. 225 as well as 227, naturally -he wanted to see everything was all right on the premises. He was -standing in the doorway of No. 227 when the officers approached and -said to him, "What are you doing here?" He answered, "Nothing." One of -the officers then said, "I'll place you under arrest." "All right," -he answered, "take me along." The said officer then struck him with -his fist under the left jaw, and then grabbed him and struck him over -the head with his club, knocking him insensible. When he recovered -consciousness he was on the corner of Amsterdam Avenue and 60th Street, -and in charge of Officer John J. Cleary, who took him to the Roosevelt -Hospital. While on the way there said Officer Cleary continued to -strike deponent with his clinched fist, saying, "There's one for luck," -and "If I had got you first I would not have struck you with my fist. -I would have used my club on your head and killed you." Deponent was -taken to the station house, where he was charged with "interfering with -an officer in the discharge of his duty," and "attempting to rescue -a prisoner." The same charge was made the next morning in the Police -Court, where he was discharged. Deponent declares that he was perfectly -sober, and was downstairs by reason of his being janitor of the -aforementioned houses, and it was his duty to be where he was and at -that time; that he has never been arrested in his life before, and that -he did not attempt to rescue anyone from the custody of an officer, and -that the assault was entirely unjustified and an outrage. - -GEO. L. MYERS. - -Sworn to before me this 5th day of September, 1900. - -GEO. P. HAMMOND, JR., Notary Public (164), N. Y. County. - - ---- - -_City and County of New York, ss._: - -Mrs. Frances C. Myers, being duly sworn, deposes and says that she is -the wife of George L. Myers, and that she resides at 227 West 60th -Street; that she has read the affidavit of the said George L. Myers, -her husband, and that she knows the facts therein stated to be true -of her own knowledge and belief. Deponent further states that while -her husband was being clubbed she implored and begged the officers not -to strike her husband, as he was a cripple, and had done nothing, but -they continued to strike him, and one of the officers drew off as if -to strike her with his fist, and another as if to strike her with his -billy, but she got out of their way, and when she saw an officer break -his billy over her husband's head she thought they had killed him, and -she then went on upstairs. The officers refused to even allow her to -pick up his hat. - -FRANCES C. MYERS. - -Sworn to before me this 5th day of September, 1900. - -GEO. P. HAMMOND, JR., Notary Public (164), N. Y. County. - - ---- - -_City and County of New York, ss._: - -James A. Scott, being duly sworn, deposes and says: - -I reside at 225 West 60th Street. On Sunday afternoon, August 26th, -some officers went down the street towards 11th Avenue. They were -pursuing bad boys who had made a disturbance in the morning. I saw them -from my window, and after they reached 11th Avenue I went down to the -door, and stood there looking towards 11th Avenue, where there was a -crowd. There were only two persons near me, nearly all of the persons -who were on the street having gone down to the avenue; one was a boy -named Smith, and another young man who has moved away. An officer whom -I have since learned is John J. Cleary, came from 10th Avenue towards -me. He spoke to me before I saw him, saying, "Do you live here?" and I -turned to see who spoke to me, and as I turned towards him, before I -could reply he struck me a hard blow on my head with a hard substance, -which dazed me, and he followed it with a blow of his fist in the -mouth, and I went down in a heap. I began to bleed profusely from the -mouth. I was in my doorway when he struck me, so that I fell into my -hall. He did not attempt to arrest me. I went upstairs, and I heard a -woman's voice screaming, "Don't beat my husband." I looked out of the -window and saw the same policeman, Cleary, and other officers whom I -cannot identify, clubbing George L. Myers. The principal clubber was -the said Cleary. I saw him club the said Myers on the head until he -broke his club, and saw him pulling Myers up 60th Street, and punching -him with his fist. Myers was dreadfully beaten and was bleeding badly. - -JAMES A. SCOTT. - -Sworn to before me this 24th day of September, 1900. - -FRANK MOSS, Notary Public, N. Y. County. - -(The case of Hopson, Myers, and Scott is substantiated by fully twenty -witnesses.) - - ---- - -_City and County of New York, ss._: - -John Wolf, of No. 347 West 37th Street, being duly sworn, deposes and -says: - -On Sunday, September 30, I was visiting a female friend, and two -officers came in with a woman I had known, and who claimed to be my -wife but was not. The officers ordered me to leave the house, and I -did so. I asked the officers, "Why?" and one of them said, "If I catch -you here again I will lock you up." I never had any experience in -court or in such matters before, and I went to the station house for -advice. I went to the sergeant at the desk, and told him that I was -in trouble, and without experience, and I wanted to be advised. He -said, "What is the matter with you?" I said, "Can a woman that I have -lived with have me arrested because I don't want to live with her any -more?" He answered, "What are you talking about? You get out of here!" -I was surprised, and didn't move quickly enough to suit him, and he -ordered an officer to arrest me. The officer stepped up to me in front -of the desk, pulled a billy from his pocket, and suddenly struck me a -hard blow on my right jaw, which broke it and caused my chin to fall -down. The officer hurried me back to a cell. I suffered terrible agony -and walked up and down my cell all night calling for relief. I paid -thirty-five cents to send out a message to Mr. Young, who was not at -home. His son came, but was not allowed to see me. I had no attention -at all, and in the morning was arraigned in court. The officer was on -the bridge close to the judge; I was down on the floor. I couldn't hear -what charge he made or what he said. My face was swelled and mouth -almost closed, and I could not make any statement. The justice fined -me three dollars on the officer's statement, and the police attendants -hustled me along. I had no money to pay my fine, and was sent back -to the court prison. I was in an awful condition. I lay down on some -boards, but couldn't stay still. I moaned, and cried for help, but -could not get anyone to notice my case. The night man who came on duty -on Monday night was a humane man, and asked what was my trouble, and I -told him as well as I could. He rang for an ambulance, and I was taken -to Bellevue Hospital. I reached there 9:30 P. M., Monday, and -was put to bed, and remained there till four P. M., Wednesday. -I was unable to take nourishment while there. When I was discharged I -went to the station house for my personal effects, and the officer then -in charge asked me my trouble (for my head was swathed in bandages), -and I told him, and he caused me to remain and identify the officer -who hit me. He scolded the officer, who answered nothing, and he sent -me to Police Headquarters to Inspector Thompson with a note, and ever -since that time they have been investigating my case, and I have gone -back and forth a good many times. Inspector Thompson, in my hearing, -complained bitterly of the ruffianly conduct of the officers in the -20th Precinct. He told of a case where one had beaten a colored woman -eighty-one years of age, and was afterwards found helplessly drunk in -a saloon; he said they were bringing disgrace on the police force. He -seemed to try to get the evidence in my case all right, but the trouble -is that six policemen and the sergeant swore that they were in the -room when I was arrested and that they did not see any blow struck, -but they could not account for my broken jaw. This perjury was awful. -I am feeling very badly--have just now come from the hospital. I go -there every day for treatment. My jaw is still loose, and will not hold -in position without the bandages that almost cover my face and head. -The doctor at the hospital says that the blow must have been a very -hard one, for the bone is crushed. I am poor, and cannot work now. I -suffered also in the riot on the 15th of August. I was going to my -home, which was then at 245 West 32nd Street, and was pulled off an -8th Avenue car by the mob, and was pelted with stones and beaten with -sticks. At first the police who were near by did not interfere, but -after I was severely hurt they came over, and as I was down on my hands -and knees, trying to get up, one of the officers struck me three blows -on my body with his club, and ordered me to get up and get out. I was -then quite near my home, and I ran over there, and was pulled in by my -friends. The mob and the police chased me. The police hurt me more than -the rioters. I had a friend with me, and the police clubbed him also. -He ran into my house with me, and stayed there. When the policemen -ordered me to get out I was surrounded by the mob that was beating me, -and they made no effort to interfere with them. I have always been a -hard-working man, and was never before arrested. - -JOHN WOLF. - -Sworn to before me this 11th day of October, 1900. - -FRANK MOSS, Notary Public, N. Y. County. - - ---- - -_City and County of New York, ss._: - -William J. Elliott, being duly sworn, says: - -My name is William J. Elliott. I reside at 209 East 59th Street. -At the time of the riot, on August 15th, I lived at 327 West 35th -Street. I moved from that side of the town right at once on account -of the riot. I am twenty-six years of age and weigh about 130 pounds, -and am employed at the Hotel Imperial. I have been there nearly two -years. I finished my grammar school education in 1887. I entered the -Florida State Normal College in 1894; I was there for two sessions, -from '94 to '95. I left there and entered into a drug firm by the name -of Martinez & Co., Jacksonville, Florida, as an apprentice to study -pharmacy, and in less than a year my advancement was so good I was made -a prescriptionist. I then came to New York and entered a drug firm by -the name of C. K. Harris Beach Pharmacy at Atlantic City, N. J. I was -a trustworthy man there, generally useful; during one fall had entire -charge of one of two of Mr. Harris' drug stores in Atlantic City. Mr. -Harris sold out, and after that I sought other work, and I came here -to New York City. My intention has been to accumulate enough money to -take a pharmaceutical course. On the night of August 14th there came a -colored man to the Hotel Imperial and informed the front door man that -there were riots in the street and that there was no way of getting -home. This was between nine and ten o'clock in the evening. About 12:15 -I was off duty, and left the hotel with John Chism, the front door -man; we went out to investigate and see if the boys could get home. We -had no sooner got to 6th Avenue and 31st Street than a fierce mob came -chasing down the street and in hot pursuit of a colored man, yelling, -"Kill the nigger! Lynch him!" We then ran towards Broadway, and were -met there by Mr. Murphy, a man who keeps a saloon at 31st Street and -6th Avenue. He advised us to go at once back to the hotel and to tell -the chief, Mr. Roberts, to keep all of his men in the hotel that night -or they would get killed. We went back, and I delivered the message to -Chief Roberts, and he advised and told all the men to stay in. Chism, -Travers, and myself came out to the front door again, and saw a Negro -running for his life by the Hotel Imperial through 32nd Street towards -5th Avenue, with a mad crowd behind him. Then we were made to come into -the hotel by the chief, as the hotel people were afraid that the mob -might attack the house. I remained in the hotel all night. Mr. Chism -and I tried to get a closed cab to drive three of us home, but the -cabman said he would not drive us home for $500. This was the night -of the riot in which so many were injured. At five o'clock the next -morning I left the Hotel Imperial to go home with Leon Vonce. I walked -as far as 36th Street and 8th Avenue with him, as I intended to go -to his home with him, as he was very anxious about his wife; he was -afraid she might have been attacked. When we got to the corner of 36th -Street and 8th Avenue I saw a big white man jump on one of two colored -boys, whom I know to be hotel boys going to their work. I got a little -uneasy at the sights I saw, and I saw some blood on the sidewalk, and -Leon Vonce said to me, "You had better turn around and go home," and I -did, and went to bed. At half past eleven I awoke and dressed myself -and got out of the house by a quarter to twelve noon, and got as far -as Rocky's drug store, corner 34th Street and 8th Avenue. A white boy -standing on the corner said to me, "You had better go away from around -here, or you will get killed." I then noticed groups of boys and men -running from 34th Street down 8th Avenue; they were right across the -street from me, and at sight of them I became afraid that they would -attack me and I ran home. I had, however, to get to my work, as I knew -the hotel people needed me, and I was afraid that some of the other men -would not be able to get back to the hotel; so after a little while I -made another attempt to go to the hotel. I went out of the house. I was -then addressed by a white man, who seemed to be much of a gentleman. He -says (this was when I reached 8th Avenue), "For God's sake, boy, you -had better go away from here. Go ahead, jump on that car; they just -near killed a colored man across the street." Then as he said that I -heard the crowd yell, "There's a nigger! there's a nigger! Catch him!" -Luckily for me, I jumped on a car and there was a colored boy on the -corner by Comford Brothers' saloon. The mob saw him and ran after him; -they caught the colored boy and the mob grabbed and gathered around -him. They were rough-looking fellows, and I could not see what they -did to the colored boy, for he was in the center of this mob. The car -I jumped on was a green car and went across 9th Avenue on 34th Street. -I jumped off at 9th Avenue, and just as I left the car there were four -big white fellows said, "There's a d----d nigger!" and they started -at me, and I ran home as hard as I could, and when I reached home I -was all out of breath. When I got home the folks at home asked me if I -had anything to protect myself. I told them no, I had nothing; I never -had any use for such things. There was a colored gentleman stopping -there, Mr. Miles. He said it was very dangerous for me to go out, but -if I intended going out at all he had a little gun upstairs, which -probably would be some protection from the mob. I thanked him very -much, and took the gun, a little .22 caliber revolver. I still felt it -necessary for me to go back to the hotel, and I thought I would get -back by going another way, and for an hour and a half I stood on my -stoop and in the house at times waiting for an opportunity to get by -the crowd on 8th Avenue and elsewhere; this was about half past two -or quarter to three in the afternoon. I started and went west towards -9th Avenue, thinking I could take a car going north to 42nd Street, -and then across 42nd Street and down Broadway to the Hotel Imperial -at 32nd Street and Broadway. Just as I got to 35th Street and turned -the corner on 9th Avenue there was a mob of three or four hundred men -and boys just below me coming up 9th Avenue, screaming and hollering -and following a car and yelling, "Take the nigger off the car!" "Catch -the nigger!" and "Kill the nigger!" and I turned then and I ran up 9th -Avenue as hard as I could from the mob, and I ran into a pawnbroker's -shop, Mr. Weaver's pawnshop. I stood behind the closed doors, and -through the small openings or blinds that the pawnbrokers have over -their doors I could see that part of the big crowd that stood in front -of the pawnbroker's shop, many of whom were lined up on the sidewalk -across the street. I could also see a policeman trying to disperse the -men with his club. He was hitting with his club right and left to clear -the sidewalk. I saw three guns hanging in the pawnbroker's window, and -I said to the pawnbroker, "Let me see those guns there." I had not any -intention of buying the guns, and did not buy them, but I thought it -would be a bluff to make the crowd think I had something. I told the -pawnbroker's clerk I did not want a gun at that time, I would come -back. While I was pricing the guns a great big white fellow opened the -door, put his head in, and looked suspiciously around the room. He -gave me one of those staring looks, and then shut the door. Then Mr. -Weaver, the owner of the pawnshop, said, "Don't you go out there; they -are waiting out there for you; they will beat you." After staying there -for over half an hour, listening to the hollering outside of "Kill the -nigger!" "Lynch the nigger!" and the crowd running about the street -chasing other negroes, a great many of whom lived in that locality, I -asked the clerk if I could go upstairs and hide, as I was afraid they -might come in after me; but he said, "No one dasen't come in here." -Shortly after this conversation I asked this clerk if it was safe to -go out. He said yes, the crowd was chased down the Avenue. I also asked -Mr. Weaver if it was safe to go out now. He said he thought everything -was over now. I went to the door and peeped out, and I only saw a few -people in groups and four boys standing right at the pawnbroker's door -a little to the left of me. I called to one of these white boys, and -asked him if it was safe for me to go out. He asked me where did I want -to go. I told his as far as 42nd Street. He said, "Go to one of those -cops and he will take you up." I saw some cops at 36th Street corner. -I started toward the cops to ask them to take me up to 42nd Street, -but I had not gone half a dozen steps towards where the cops were when -a man in citizen's clothes grabbed me. I learned afterwards he was an -officer, and he asked me where I was going. I told him I was trying -to get to my work. He asked me what I was doing in a pawnbroker's -shop. Before I could explain he said I had bought a gun, and commenced -to search me. At that time there were four policemen around me. The -little .22 caliber gun he found and took from my pocket. I offered -no resistance, and only asked him for protection from the mob, which -commenced to gather again, and were now yelling, "Kill the nigger!" -"Lynch the nigger!" This mob came up close behind me with sticks and -stones. One of the officers knocked on the sidewalk with his club, and -there were about half a dozen more officers ran to us to keep the mob -off me. The mob was kept off me, and the officer in citizen's clothes -and a policeman in uniform took hold of each of my shoulders and four -policemen followed behind me. The mob went along too, yelling and -screaming, "Kill the nigger!" "Lynch the nigger!" We went west on 37th -Street towards the 37th Street station, which is between 9th and 10th -Avenues, when we turned into 37th Street. Then the two officers in -charge of me and two more behind me took me to the 37th Street station -house. Up to this time I had not received a blow, and was not injured -in any way. They stood me before a man who sat behind a desk in the -station house. There were lots of people there. Some of the men were in -citizens' clothes. The man behind the desk said to the officer who had -me in charge, "What is the charge against this man?" and the officer -in citizen's clothes said, "Carrying a concealed weapon he bought out -of a pawnshop." I said, "I did not buy any weapon there," and the man -behind the desk said, "Don't dictate to us about what you did not do," -and then I started to tell him about my reputation and not being a -rioter, and that I was only trying to get to my work. He said, "We -have got no time to look up your reputation. Lock him up." I was taken -by the jailer who is in the station house, and he said, "Come on," and -took hold of me. There were two doors leading from the office into the -muster room, and I went to get through the left-hand door. Right beside -the door in the station house was a policeman leaning against the -door. As I passed him he threw out his foot and tripped me. I stumbled -but did not fall. I did not see the jailer; he let go of my coat he -had hold of. I looked around at the man who tripped me. As I looked -around another policeman struck me on the jaw with his fist; then -another struck me in the back of the head with his club, and all the -policemen in the muster room jumped up and jumped on me, yelling, "Kill -him!" "Kill the nigger!" I still stood up and received many punches. -I begged for mercy, and did not weaken until an officer struck me in -the temple with his billy, and everything was dark around me. I fell -down, and I could still feel them kicking and beating me about. This -time the man behind the desk, who I believe is Captain Cooney, rushed -in and said, "Don't kill that man in here. The reporters are out here, -and there is going to be a charge made against you, and if another man -touches a prisoner in here I will take a hand in it myself;" and he -says, "Lock that man up." At that time I held my hands above my head -and was running around trying to find the doorway to the cells. I was -then taken and locked up. I am still sick and ill from the blows that -I received, and my right eye is affected. It quivers and is bloodshot, -and the right part of my head and temple is sore. I stayed in the -police station all night, and sent a telegram to the hotel people at -the Imperial, and the manager sent a detective over to get me out, -but the detective was afraid to take me out. The next morning I was -arraigned before Magistrate Cornell for carrying a concealed weapon. -Magistrate Cornell picked up the pistol and said, "Is this your gun?" -and laughed, and said that a man with a bad reputation would carry -no such gun as that; but he said, "We will have to charge you three -dollars for carrying a concealed weapon." I paid the fine and went -straight to Travers' house, where my head was bathed in hot water and -alcohol, and he rubbed my side and back. I remained there in bed all -day. I was unable to work for two days, and then I went back. Since I -went back Captain Cooney has sent for me twice, but I have been afraid -to go back there. I can bring more evidence to show that after I came -out of the police station my head was swollen half its size again, -and I could hardly open my mouth, and for two days I had difficulty in -eating. I cannot open my mouth right wide now. - -WILLIAM J. ELLIOTT. - -Sworn to before me this 24th day of August, 1900. - -HERBERT PARSONS, Notary Public, N. Y. County. - - ---- - -(On the hearing before Commissioner York three newspaper reporters -corroborated Elliott, but a host of policemen contradicted him. Elliott -and his witnesses were badgered by Mr. York, and the policemen were led -and protected. Counsel was not permitted to take part.) - - ---- - -_City and County of New York, ss._: - -My name is Harry Reed. I reside at 346 West 41st Street, in the Borough -of Manhattan, City of New York. On August 15th, 1900, I was over in -Brooklyn and was coming home with four companions. About half-past -twelve I reached the corner of 34th Street and 8th Avenue. We five boys -were sitting on the seat of an open 8th Avenue car. When we got at the -corner of 37th Street and 8th Avenue we saw a mob, and the mob called -out, "There's some niggers; lynch them!" and they made a rush for the -car, and I jumped out. Then I ran up to the corner of 38th Street, -where there were four policemen. Of these four policemen three were -standing on the corner, and one ran into the street to stop me. When he -saw me coming I was running hard, fast as I could. When I reached this -policeman in the street, he hit me over the head with his club. He hit -me twice over the head, and I saw the other three policemen coming, and -I fell down. I thought if I fell down the others would not attack me, -but they did; they hit me over the legs and on my arm, when I raised -it up to protect my head, and they hit me in the back. The two cops -started to take me to the police station, but when they saw a patrol -wagon come around the corner of 38th Street into 8th Avenue they called -the patrol wagon, and both went with me in the patrol wagon to the -station house, where I stayed till about four o'clock in the morning. -There was no charge made against me in the station house. After my head -was bound up, and at about four o'clock in the morning, a man dressed -in citizen's clothes said, "Two at a time can go when they want to; -things are quieted down somewhat." I asked him if anybody was going -with us, and they said, "No, go by yourself." I went directly home, -where I stayed and went to bed. I got up at about half-past eight and -went to the Roosevelt Hospital the next morning. They told me at the -station house to go to the hospital. I have been up to the Roosevelt -Hospital three times, on the 16th, 17th, and 18th. I don't think I will -go any more, but still I have to wear a bandage and dress my head. The -scar that I have got on my head is about two inches long, and I was -also hit and a bump was raised on the back of my head, but the skin is -not broken. I bled a great deal from the wound on my head; my shirt, -collar, and tie were all blood-spotted. I am about fifteen years old; -one of my companions, who is about twenty-four years old, was knocked -down, kicked in the face, and thrown down a cellar by a mob. He is my -father's son-in-law; his name is Joe Walker, and he resides at 346 -West 41st Street. My other companions did not get hurt at all. One of -them started to jump from the car, but a policeman told him to get -back, and he stayed on the car, and the mob left him there because they -were chasing me and the other fellow. This man was about nineteen or -twenty years old. Of my other companions, one was a white boy about -nineteen years old, and the mob did not touch him, and he stayed on -the car. The other colored boy, who is about fifteen years old, is -light-complexioned in color, and the mob did not touch him; he stayed -on the cars also. We were in the third seat from the front; we were all -sitting on the same seat. I was on the right hand and outside coming -up, and when I saw the mob coming along the street from the right I -clambered past the other fellows and jumped over the rail on the left, -and was the first fellow out. I ran uptown towards 38th Street, where -I saw these cops. I wanted to get protection, but instead the cops hit -me, as I have told. I did not resist arrest, and I did not struggle to -get away from the cops. I only wanted to get away from the mob. The -cops stopped me, and did not catch hold of me until I had got down and -the other cop had hit me, and one of them caught hold of me to make me -stand up. I did not even try to run away after I had been hit. I was -afraid to run, because I knew if I did they would hit me again. - -HARRY REED. - -Sworn to before me this 22nd day of August, 1900. - -JOHN C. BARR, Notary Public, Kings County. Certificate filed -in N. Y. County. - - ---- - -_City and County of New York, ss._: - -My name is Jesse Payne. I reside at 255 West 93rd Street. I work there -as a waiter in a boarding house. On the evening of August 15th I was -sent down to accompany a small boy, by the name of Allan Atkins, to his -home, 223 West 18th Street. He took an 8th Avenue car at 93rd Street, -and I rode alongside the car until I got to 59th Street. I told him I -would ride on, and I rode about a block in front of the car. We went -down this way until we approached 34th Street. Around the corner of -34th Street and 8th Avenue I saw a crowd standing. It stretched all -over the street and sidewalk. I thought that some one was hurt, and -that was the reason the crowd had collected, but when I got into the -crowd they did not seem to be standing around no one, and I did not -know what was the matter until I passed 34th Street, and was about -half way to 33rd Street. I was still on the west side of the car track -riding on the wheel, and about half a block in front of the car in -which the boy was, and about half a block behind another car, trying -to follow the pathway it made in the street. When I got to the middle -of the block a policeman ran out from the sidewalk from the west and -raised his club and hit me across the mouth, saying, "What the hell -are you riding here for?" This blow split my lip and broke off two of -my front teeth; it also knocked me off the wheel, but I scrambled up -and ran between the east side of 8th Avenue, dragging my wheel with -me, and away from the policeman. The policeman followed right upon me, -clubbing me, and the whole crowd was after me. I tried to get into a -store, and they shoved me back, and they would not let me in. While I -was going from where I was knocked off my wheel to the east side of the -street a policeman who struck me kept on clubbing me. The first blow -he gave me knocked me kind of foolish, but I hung on to my wheel. When -I got to the curb I fell, because I missed the step. After I got up -another policeman came up to me and said, "What the hell are you doing -here with that wheel?" I says, "I ain't done nothing to anybody, just -going on a message to take a boy home;" and he grabbed the wheel and -hit me over the hand with his club. That made me let go the wheel. It -was taken away from me and I have not seen it since. Then I ran away -about four doors from 8th Avenue, and a third officer told me to stop -and sit down, "If you don't they will kill you;" and he stood there -and protected me until he sent another officer for a patrol wagon and -took me to the station house, and I was there until four o'clock in -the morning. I have been employed by Mrs. McFarland, at 255 West 93rd -Street for about three months; before that with Annie Sterler, of 44 -West 35th Street--this is a boarding house, and I was a waiter there -for two years; with Mrs. Gillies, of 18 West 9th Street, two and a -half years. I know Rev. Mr. Franklin, of Zion Church, corner 10th and -Bleecker Streets. - -JESSE x PAYNE. - his mark - -Sworn to before me this 22nd day of August, 1900. - -SAMUEL L. WOLFF, Notary Public (77), N. Y. County. - - ---- - -_City and County of New York, ss._: - -My name is John B. Mallory. I reside at 206 West 62nd Street. While -coming home from the engineers' lectures my friend Gordon Jones and -myself came up to 7th Avenue through 29th Street where the colored -Engineers' Hall is. We turned into 39th Street and went west towards -8th Avenue. We saw a crowd of white men and boys coming around the -corner towards us. Before the gang reached us a policeman said to my -friend and myself, "Get out of here," and began clubbing me and my -friend; he struck my friend first, and my friend ran towards Broadway. -Then after being struck four or five times, and as soon as I could, I -ran up on a stoop. The policeman did not have a hold of me, but began -striking me, and kept up with me. When I got on top of the stoop he -ran after me, and caught hold of me and shoved me down. He said again, -"Get out of here." It made me fall down the stairs, and I was on my -hands and knees on the walk. Then the policeman left me at the mercy -of the mob, and he went across the street where he was at first. The -mob began punching me, hitting me with sticks, kicking and hitting me -with their fists, and split my lip open, cut my nose, and bruised my -forehead. Then I got up and put my hands on my face and head, and stood -up against the railing by the stoop of the house where I was shoved -down. Then another policeman came to me and said to me, "Have you sense -enough to go home?" I said "Yes." I got on an 8th Avenue car, in which -he got on, and began going uptown about fifteen or twenty feet, when -another policeman came up and got on the car from the left-hand side, -and shoved me out towards the right-hand side, where the mob was. -He said, "Get out of here." As I was pushed off a man at the side -struck at me, but I dodged him and jumped on the car again. The car -was moving when the policeman shoved me off of it. The policeman who -protected me made the motorman stop the car for me to get on, and I -got on the front of the car again. The policeman who protected me said -to the policeman who shoved me off, "Get off, and let him alone." He -got off then. The policeman who protected me stood on the car until I -got up one block out of the mob, and then he got off. I rode on this -8th Avenue car up to 59th Street, and I stood between two men. One of -them offered me his handkerchief to wipe the blood off my face, and -when I got to 59th Street they advised me to go to Roosevelt Hospital, -and I asked one of them to get a transfer for me. He did this, and I -went to Roosevelt Hospital, where I had three stitches put in my lip. -I am still going to the hospital, and am under treatment; my back and -both shoulders are injured, and I am generally bruised all over. I -have no bad habits. I do not smoke or drink, and I am a student at the -International Correspondence School, Scranton, Pa. I have been through -the public schools, and I am studying to be a mechanical engineer. I -also attend lectures at the Colored Engineers' Association, on 29th -Street between 6th and 7th Avenues. I know Mrs. S. E. Lodewick, of 800 -Lexington Avenue; C. W. Phillips, 11 Broadway; L. P. Sawyer, Mrs. J. F. -Aitken, Mrs. Mary Baker, Mrs. E. R. Clark, and Mrs. A. Arnold, all of -153 Madison Avenue. I have known these people for about eight years, -and they can all testify to my good character. - -JOHN B. MALLORY. - -Sworn to before me this 22nd day of August, 1900. - -SAMUEL L. WOLFF, Notary Public (77), N. Y. County. - - ---- - -_City and County of New York, ss._: - -Nicholas J. Sherman, being duly sworn, deposes and says: - -My name is Nicholas J. Sherman. I reside at No. 134 West 33rd Street, -Borough of Manhattan, City of New York. On the 15th day of August I was -visiting some friends at 37th Street near 7th Avenue, in a boarding -house. As the clock struck ten I left the house. I walked east toward -7th Avenue. At the corner of 37th Street and 7th Avenue I saw several -policemen chasing a person eastward. I do not know whether the person -was colored or not. I am a messenger and mailing clerk on the _New -York Herald_, and I naturally was interested, as I thought it was a -news item, and I walked across the street. When I got within six feet -of the sidewalk, near the drug store, on the corner of 37th Street and -7th Avenue, a policeman stopped me, and asked me, "Where in hell do you -live?" I told him in 33rd Street, and then he said, "G-- d-- you, go -home!" and he hit me with his club on the left arm. There were about a -dozen policemen standing around there, and two or three within reach. -One of these struck me across the right shoulder, and when I turned to -run the same policeman, I think, who struck me on the left arm again -struck me across the small of my back with his club. Then I limped -from there towards the saloon on the southwest corner of 37th Street -and 7th Avenue, where a policeman was leaning against a lamppost. As I -limped past him he struck me with his club on the right arm. I was then -unable to get away from him on account of my injury, but I managed to -get across the street and stood in front of the saloon on the southeast -corner, and a man came out and asked me to go in. I went in and leaned -against a barrel, and he told the bartender that the police had just -beaten me. As soon as I was able to walk I started for the _New York -Herald_ office to tell the man whom I am employed under. I sat in the -chair at the _Herald_ office all night, because there was a great crowd -around the street and I was afraid to go home. I left there the next -morning about six o'clock, went to my room and changed my clothing, and -started for my breakfast. Then I went to the office and worked all day, -until about six o'clock that evening. Then I went to my room, and was -so lame I could not get out again until the following Tuesday morning, -five days after, not even being able, in the meantime, to sit in a -chair. I still feel the effects of the clubbing. The blow on the small -of my back made my left limb almost paralyzed. - -NICHOLAS J. SHERMAN. - -Sworn to before me this 24th day of August, 1900. - -HERBERT PARSONS, Notary Public, N. Y. County. - - ---- - -Mr. Sherman states in addition that his chief in the newspaper office -directed him to report the matter to the police authorities, and that -he spoke to Chief Devery, who said to him substantially, "A negro -killed a policeman up there, and they can't be controlled." - - ---- - -_City and County of New York, ss._: - -My name is W. H. Cooper. I reside at 340 West 41st Street. On the -morning of August 15th, about half past nine, I went from the house -to the post office station at the southwest corner of 41st Street and -8th Avenue. When I reached that corner I saw a group of white men and -boys standing at the corner. When I passed this group at this corner I -overheard one of them saying, "We are going to get back at the niggers -to-night." One of the others said, "Is that true? Is there going to -be a riot to-night?" and the reply was "Yes." When I heard this I -went around the corner. There was a bicycle pump there. I went behind -the bicycle pump like I was looking in the window. I could overhear -everything that was said. One of the fellows said, "Have they buried -Thorpe, yet?" "No, we expect to bury Thorpe to-day;" and he says, "We -expect to have a hot time to-day when the funeral starts." It was -rumored around that he was to be buried on the day of the riot, but he -was not buried, however, until the next day. One of the fellows said, -"Have they got the nigger Harris, yet?" "Yes," he said, "they caught -him down at Washington, and if we can get our hands on him we will tar -and feather the bastard;" and I went into the drug store and came out -again after mailing my letter. When I came out I stood on the corner -and filled my pipe, and I overheard them say, "Have they got the woman -yet?" and they said, "Yes, she is locked up;" and the other fellow -said, "Well, that is all to-night." I did not move on until one of -the fellows said, "There is a coon standing there now; you had better -hush." Then I went down home and told the boys at the shop about it. - -W. H. COOPER. - -Sworn to before me this 22nd day of August, 1900. - -JOHN C. BARR, Notary Public, Kings County. Certificate filed -in N. Y. County. - - - - -The Citizens' Protective League was organized in St. Mark's Church, -West 53d Street and Eighth Avenue, on Monday morning, September 3, -1900. The object of the League is, first, to afford mutual protection; -and, secondly, to prosecute the guilty. The League now numbers about -5,000, with daily increase. - -The following officers were elected: - - -OFFICERS. - -Rev. W. H. BROOKS, D.D., President. -T. S. P. MILLER, M.D., Vice President. -Rev. H. P. MILLER, Secretary. -JAMES E. GARNER, Treasurer. - - -EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. - -T. T. FORTUNE, Chairman, -W. R. DAVIS, Secretary, -C. A. DORSEY, -Rev. P. B. TOMPKINS, -Rev. J. W. SCOTT, -D. M. WEBSTER, -Rev. C. T. WALKER, D.D., -Rev. W. L. HUBBARD, -Rev. GEO. W. BAILEY, -L. H. LATIMER, -Rev. R. D. WYN, -J. F. THOMAS, -N. B. DODSON, -Rev. G. HUNT, -Rev. L. L. CUYLER, -Rev. H. C. BISHOP, -Rev. W. D. COOK, D.D., -MELVIN J. 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VAN WYCK,<br /><span class="s6"> </span>MAYOR, NEW YORK CITY.</i></p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Dear Sir</span>:</p> - -<p>Your communication of the 7th inst. in reply to my letter received. -We appreciate the consideration shown and interest manifested, but -earnestly petition your Honor for a fair and impartial investigation. -We condemn in unqualified terms lawlessness among our people, and by no -means condone the crime of Harris, nor his associates; but this crime, -as black as it may be, does not justify the policemen in their savage -and indiscriminate attack upon innocent and helpless people.</p> - -<p>We ask for no money consideration, and our counsel, Hon. Frank -Moss, has been so advised. We are not responsible for what private -individuals may do—the rights of citizenship we value above money.</p> - -<p>We ask for the conviction, and removal from the force of those officers -whom we are able to prove guilty.</p> - -<p>We appeal to you, sir, as chief magistrate of this city, to give this -matter special personal attention.</p> - -<p>If the guilty are shielded it will encourage the mob to repeat the -same offense, the officers to commit the same deeds, and our people to -prepare for self-defense in spite of law or gospel. This can have no -other termination than bloodshed and butchery.</p> - -<p>This, I believe, may all be avoided by a course of simple justice. -The color of a man's skin must not be made the index of his character -or ability. From the many ugly threatening letters I have received I -feel that my own life is not safe, but I am unwilling to purchase it -by silence at the expense of my unfortunate race. We feel keenly our -position, and again appeal to you for common justice.</p> - -<p>I am, dear sir,</p> - -<p class="right">Yours,<span class="s6"> </span><br />W. H. BROOKS.</p> - -<hr /> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_1" id="Page_1">[Pg 1]</a></span></p> - -<h2>PERSECUTION OF NEGROES</h2> - -<p class="center">BY</p> - -<p class="center">Roughs and Policemen, in the City<br />of New York, August, 1900.</p> - -<p class="center">STATEMENT AND PROOFS WRITTEN AND COM-<br />PILED BY FRANK MOSS AND ISSUED BY -THE<br />CITIZENS' PROTECTIVE LEAGUE.</p> - -<hr class="smler" /> - -<p class="center">STATEMENT OF THE PERSECUTION.</p> - -<p>The riots and persecutions described in this pamphlet occurred mainly -in the 20th Police Precinct, which is under the command of Acting -Captain John Cooney, and within the jurisdiction of Inspector Walter -L. Thompson. Chief William S. Devery resides in the precinct, near the -scene of the disorder.</p> - -<p>The district has a large colored population, and mixed with it are many -dissolute and lawless white persons.</p> - -<p>On August the 12th last a Negro named Arthur Harris was with his wife -at 41st Street and 8th Avenue. He says that he left her to buy a cigar, -and when he returned he found her in the grasp of a man in citizen's -dress. This man was a police officer, named Robert J. Thorpe, who had -arrested her, as he claimed, for "soliciting." Harris says that he did -not know Thorpe was an officer, and that he attempted to rescue his -wife. The policeman struck Harris with his club, and Harris retaliated -with his penknife, inflicting a mortal wound, and then ran away.</p> - -<p>Thorpe was attached to the 20th Precinct, and was much liked by his -comrades. Policemen thronged his home, and his funeral, on August 16th, -was attended by Chief Devery, Inspector Thompson, and other officials.</p> - -<p>Harris, the murderer, had disappeared, and many policemen who were -interested in Thorpe were seized with a desire of vengeance on Negroes -generally. During the day of the funeral there<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_2" id="Page_2">[Pg 2]</a></span> were rumors of coming -trouble, and those colored people who have illicit dealings with the -police—keepers of gambling, disorderly, and badger houses—seeing -the signs of coming trouble, closed their places and kept off the -streets. Several officers told informants of mine that they were -going to punish the Negroes that night. There are numerous gangs of -rowdies in the district who are hostile to Negroes and friendly with -the unofficial powers that are now potent in police affairs. There was -an understanding between the forces that night that resulted in the -holding of the streets for hours by crowds of roughs who raced up and -down Broadway, 7th and 8th Avenues, and the side streets from 34th to -42nd Streets in pursuit of Negroes, and were not attacked by the police -except in one or two cases where they invaded Broadway hotels hunting -for colored men.</p> - -<p>The unanimous testimony of the newspaper reports was that the mobs -could have been broken and destroyed immediately and with little -difficulty. In many instances of brutality by the mob policemen stood -by and made no effort to protect the Negroes who were assailed. They -ran with the crowds in pursuit of their prey; they took defenseless men -who ran to them for protection and threw them to the rioters, and in -many cases they beat and clubbed men and women more brutally than the -mob did. They were absolutely unrestrained by their superior officers. -It was the night sticks of the police that sent a stream of bleeding -colored men to the hospital, and that made the station house in West -37th Street look like a field hospital in the midst of battle. Men who -were taken to the station house by officers and men in the station -house were beaten by policemen without mercy, and their cries of -distress made sleep impossible for those who lived in the rear of the -station house.</p> - -<p>Colored men being denied official protection, many of them obtained -weapons, and if they were found armed, or if revolvers were found in -their houses, then official brutality was redoubled.</p> - -<p>The tumult of August 15th was repeated on a smaller scale on the night -of the 16th, but public attention had been directed to the shameful -conduct of our "guardians of the peace," and the precinct swarmed with -reporters and sightseers. Then the dilatory officials speedily quelled -the riot and ended the punishment of the Negroes.</p> - -<p>In the courts many false charges were made by policemen; and although -some Negroes were discharged by the magistrates, others were convicted -and punished on the false testimony of their accusers. One magistrate -commented severely on the <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_3" id="Page_3">[Pg 3]</a></span>comparatively small number of white men that -were arraigned before him for rioting.</p> - -<p>Had a force of regular soldiers been sent to quell such a disturbance, -and had it failed so utterly and so long as did the police, and had the -soldiers abandoned their duty, and vied with the roughs in beating the -men whom they should have protected, undoubtedly some guilty privates -would have been punished—but the severest penalty would have fallen on -their incompetent or derelict commanders. The commanders in this case -were Acting Captain Cooney, Inspector Thompson, and Chief Devery.</p> - -<p>The newspapers told of the shocking outrage, and printed many specific -cases of cruelty, giving the addresses of the victims and the -circumstances of their persecution. By this and other means the Police -Commissioners and the Mayor were fully apprised of the facts. There -was no suspicion of politics in the universal demand that went up for -a prompt and efficient investigation and for the severe punishment -of the offenders. This request was unheeded, until the acting Mayor -called on the Police Commissioners to investigate the conduct of their -subordinates. The Commissioners delayed, knowing full well how such -cases deteriorate by delay, and after several weeks announced that they -would investigate.</p> - -<p>The colored people of the city, realizing their unexpected danger -as a race, and discovering the surprising unwillingness of the city -authorities to punish their assailants and to protect them in the -future, formed "The Citizens' Protective League." This society and -the Society for the Prevention of Crime and the City Vigilance League -communicated with the Mayor in writing and urged him to hold an -investigation or to direct the Commissioner of Accounts to hold one -for him. His answer was that the whole matter was in the hands of the -Board of Police. A number of Negroes who had been injured retained -Israel Ludlow, Esq., to bring suits against the city for damages -inflicted on them by the mob. He filed with the Police Commissioners -the affidavit of William J. Elliott, who had been clubbed in the -station house. The Police Board began its "investigation" by calling -Elliott and his witnesses on the 7th of September. The examination of -witnesses was conducted by the President of the Board, Bernard J. York, -and, with the approval of the Board, he refused to give subpœnas to -Mr. Ludlow, and refused to allow him or any other lawyer to examine -or cross-examine any witnesses, or to suggest any step to be taken. -Elliott and all other colored witnesses were examined by the President -as hostile parties, and their testimony<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_4" id="Page_4">[Pg 4]</a></span> was controverted by the -policemen who were called at once and were carefully nursed and led by -him. Glaring discrepancies and disagreements in their testimony were -passed over in spite of specific protests by Mr. Ludlow. The writer -appeared on behalf of the societies that had memorialized the Mayor, -and filed a complaint of inefficiency and neglect of duty against the -Captain, the Inspector, and the Chief of Police, and announced that -he had much testimony to offer on the specifications, but insisted on -his right to examine his own witnesses and to cross-examine the police -witnesses. These rights were emphatically denied, and the complaint was -disdainfully pigeonholed.</p> - -<p>The Protective League separately asked the Mayor for justice; he -responded that the whole matter was with the Police Board, and he -made the same response to Mr. Ludlow, who complained to him of the -farce that was being enacted at Police Headquarters. The hearing was -continued several days. Witnesses were examined superficially in eight -cases of cruelty by policemen, and were controverted by double the -number of policemen, and it was suddenly announced that the hearings -were closed. Claims of sixteen Negroes against the city were then on -file in the Comptroller's office, the names and addresses of many -more victims had appeared in the newspapers, and the writer had -announced that he had in his possession over forty affidavits of police -brutality. The "investigation" was a palpable sham.</p> - -<p>At this date not a single complaint has been preferred by the Chief, -the Inspector, the Captain, or the Commissioners against any police -officer for brutality or neglect of duty during the riots.</p> - -<p>On September 12th a great meeting was held at Carnegie Hall to protest -against the brutality and against the failure of the city authorities -to act, and to take measures for the prevention of such outbreaks in -the future. Fully thirty-five hundred people attended, and listened to -addresses by Rev. R. S. MacArthur, D.D., Rev. D. W. Cook, D.D., Rev. C. -T. Walker, D.D., Rev. W. H. Brooks, D.D., Rev. Bishop W. B. Derrick, -D.D., Miss M. R. Lyons, Hon. D. M. Webster.</p> - -<p>A subscription was started, and measures were taken to make the -Citizens' Protective League a permanent and a vital institution.</p> - -<p>The League and its representatives are using every possible lawful -measure to secure justice to its people, and to vindicate their right -to live in peace. They are having a difficult task to get a hearing. -Several cases have been brought by it in the Magistrates' Court, -but they are difficult to carry in the face of a<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_5" id="Page_5">[Pg 5]</a></span> solid and lusty -swearing lot of policemen, and they cannot show the crime in its mass, -and cannot reveal the responsibility of the higher officials for -the outbreak and for the failure to discover and punish the guilty -policemen and their commanders.</p> - -<p>The Mayor has abundant authority to hear the matter, but he has washed -his hands of it, and the Police Board has not hesitated to write -another page of its damning history. There is no other way open for -a full and connected presentation of the case to the public except -by legal process through the Mayor and the Commissioners. A Grand -Jury investigation was had, and resulted in no indictment. Such an -investigation is necessarily held behind closed doors, and the sole -question is whether there is sufficient evidence to warrant the -indictment of a specific individual for a specific act, unrelated to -other acts, and with a reasonable probability of conviction.</p> - -<p>I have advised the Citizens' Protective League of the great barriers -to be overcome in securing the conviction of even a patrolman, and of -the inadequacy of a criminal proceeding in an attempted presentation of -the great wrong that the Negroes have suffered. They need the sympathy -and support of the good people of New York to secure a vindication, and -to prevent a recurrence of the outbreak. Under my advice the appended -affidavits have been secured, and are now printed, so that they may -be read and considered in their relation to each other. I may say -that with hardly an exception the affiants have shown themselves to -be respectable, hard-working men and women. The dissolute Negroes who -are so often seen lounging about the "Tenderloin" and its neighborhood -are not to be found among the witnesses. They are the friends of the -police, contributing very largely to their comfort and happiness, and -it is quite clear that they had their warning and kept out of the way.</p> - -<p>With this simple introduction, I present the affidavits, confident -that they will speak for themselves, and that they will lead to the -condemnation of the high official criminals, and contribute to the -overthrow of the infernal system that they represent.</p> - -<p>Brutality and insolence of policemen have increased greatly, and the -Police Commissioners seldom, if ever, convict officers for these -offenses. Humble citizens of all races to-day are in more danger from -policemen's clubs than they are from the assaults of criminals. The -inaction of the Commissioners in the cases of the Negroes is entirely -consistent with their general conduct in all citizens' complaints.</p> - -<p class="right"><span class="smcap">Frank Moss.</span></p> - -<p>Dated October 1, 1900.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_6" id="Page_6">[Pg 6]</a></span></p> - -<hr class="smler" /> - -<p><i>City and County of New York, ss.</i>:</p> - -<p>P. A. Johnson, M.D., being duly sworn, deposes and says: I reside at -203 West 33rd Street, and am engaged in the active practice of my -profession at that address. On Thursday morning, August 16th, 1900, -about ten <span class="smaller">A. M.</span>, I heard a noise in the street, and going to -the window I saw a colored man trying to get into one of the flats -on the opposite side of the street. He failed, and went east to the -corner saloon, kept by a man Gallagher, and entered. After he went in -I noticed three policemen in the saloon. Almost immediately a mob came -down 7th Avenue. At the saloon they commenced to shout, "Bring him out, -we'll lynch him!" Several of the rioters went into the saloon, and in a -few minutes they came out again and formed in a semicircle, evidently -waiting for something. The police officers appeared with the colored -man, clubbing him unmercifully. They then shoved him into the mob. He -managed to get through them and ran down the street, and I heard him -shortly shouting for mercy, saying, "For God's sake don't kill me, I -have a wife and children." Deponent has been informed that two of the -officers ran down the street after him and knocked him senseless.</p> - -<p class="right"><span class="smcap">P. A. Johnson.</span></p> - -<p>Sworn to before me this 10th day of September, 1900.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Geo. P. Hammond, Jr.</span>, Notary Public (164), N. Y. County.</p> - -<hr class="smler" /> - -<p><i>City and County of New York, ss.</i>:</p> - -<p>Stephen Small, being duly sworn, deposes and says: I reside at the -northwest corner of 7th Avenue and 34th Street. On Wednesday evening, -August 15th, 1900, I went to the home of a sick brother on Lexington -Avenue, and started then to go to my lodge on 29th Street near 7th -Avenue, and had reached 8th Avenue and 41st Street, opposite Driggs' -saloon, when two officers jumped on the car. One hit me on the head -with his club, and the other struck me in the eye with his club. A -white man interfered, and the police desisted. I stayed on the car, -and when we had gone a little further the mob boarded it and attacked -me. The car had quite a number of women in it, who began to scream, -and some of them told me to get under the seat, which I did, and it -proceeded down the avenue. I reached the neighborhood of Hudson Street -House of Relief, where the white gentleman who interfered in the first -instance took me, and where I had my head bandaged. I could not get -home that evening, and I remained in a cellar in 30th Street between -6th and 7th Avenues. The<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_7" id="Page_7">[Pg 7]</a></span> next morning I started to get home, and had -reached the corner of 32nd Street and 7th Avenue, when I was stopped by -an officer who wanted to know where I was going, and what weapon I had -on me. I told him I had nothing on me. He said, "You look as if you had -been in the scrap. They ought to have killed you; get out of here." As -he said this he struck me across the back with his club, and I yet am -unable to lay flat on my back without suffering extreme pain. Deponent -further states that he was perfectly sober and was not creating any -disturbance, and that the assault by the police officers was entirely -unjustified and an outrage.</p> - -<p class="right">his<span class="s2"> </span> <br /> -<span class="smcap">Stephen</span> x <span class="smcap">Small</span>.<br /> -mark<span class="s2"> </span></p> - -<p>Sworn to before me this 11th day of September, 1900.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Geo. P. Hammond, Jr.</span>, Notary Public (164), N. Y. County.</p> - -<hr class="smler" /> - -<p><i>City and County of New York, ss.</i>:</p> - -<p>Oscar Slaughter, being duly sworn, deposes and says: I reside at 225 -West 32nd Street. On Wednesday, August 15th, 1900, I boarded an 8th -Avenue car at 32nd Street, starting to go to my sister's in West 62nd -Street. I had got as far as 36th Street and 8th Avenue, when a mob -led by three or four police officers surrounded the car and jumped on -it. The police officers immediately commenced to club me. One of the -rioters shouted, "Pull him off and kill him!" The officers pulled me -off of the car and commenced to club me. They hit me on the head and -pulled me to the street. I was kicked and beaten while I lay there, -and after the mob had gone and I recovered somewhat I dragged myself -to 42nd Street and 6th Avenue, and from there I went to 32nd Street -between 6th and 7th Avenues. On my way there I attempted to go down -34th Street, but a white man met me and said, "Don't go down there, -you'll get killed." I then tried to go down 33rd Street, but a white -gentleman advised me not to go that way, as I would be killed, and -said that even if he went down there and did not join in he would be -jumped on. I then went to 32nd Street, where a number of colored men -had taken refuge in a hallway, and where I was advised to stay all -night. I stayed there a while and then took a chance in getting to my -home down the block, which I succeeded in doing. Deponent is informed -that an officer went into the aforesaid hallway after deponent had -left, and clubbed and beat a man who lived in the house, and took him -to the station house. Deponent declares that he was<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_8" id="Page_8">[Pg 8]</a></span> perfectly sober, -and was creating no disturbance whatever, and that the said assault was -entirely unjustified and an outrage.</p> - -<p class="right"><span class="smcap">Oscar Slaughter.</span></p> - -<p>Sworn to before me this 11th day of September, 1900.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Geo. P. Hammond, Jr.</span>, Notary Public (164), N. Y. County.</p> - -<hr class="smler" /> - -<p><i>State of New York, City and County of New York, ss.</i>:</p> - -<p>Joseph Frasier, being duly sworn, deposes and says: I live at 331 West -37th Street, New York City. On August 15th, at quarter past eleven in -the night, I was on my way to work on an 8th Avenue car going downtown. -A crowd rushed towards the car and yelled, "Lynch the nigger!" A -policeman who jumped on the car hit me on the head with his club and -knocked out a tooth and beat me on the arms, back, and body until I -was nearly senseless. The policeman asked me whether I wanted to go -to the station or to the hospital. I said I wanted to go to my work, -though the blood was running over my face so that I could hardly see. -A passenger helped me until I recovered slightly, and helped me on -another car and into a drug store, where I received aid. The street -was filled with a rough crowd, patrol wagon, and ambulance. The people -cried out from the windows, protesting against the beating, and called -out "Shame!" I was laid up for weeks, and am hardly able to walk now, -as I am still lame and sore. I work for Davenport, 94 Park Place, and -it was my duty to get to the stable about eleven o'clock to go to New -Jersey for produce.</p> - -<p class="right"><span class="smcap">Joseph Frasier.</span></p> - -<p>Sworn to before me this 11th day of September, 1900.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Stephen B. Brague</span>, Notary Public (125), N. Y. County.</p> - -<hr class="smler" /> - -<p><i>City and County of New York, ss.</i>:</p> - -<p>Adolphus Cooks, being duly sworn, deposes and says: I reside at No. 243 -West 32nd Street, and work for the Anchor Steamship Company, foot of -West 24th Street, as a longshoreman. On Tuesday morning, August 14th, -1900, I went to work for the said company, worked all that day, all -that night, and until Wednesday night at 10:30 <span class="smaller">P. M.</span>—39½ -consecutive hours. At the said hour I left the pier at the foot of -West 24th Street, and walked east on 24th Street, and when I reached -the northwest corner of 8th Avenue and 24th Street a white gentleman -advised me not to go up 8th Avenue, as there was a riot up there and -they were fighting "like he did not know what." I continued east on -24th<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_9" id="Page_9">[Pg 9]</a></span> Street until I reached the northwest corner of 7th Avenue and -24th Street, when I met another white man who advised me not to go -up 7th Avenue, as there was a riot in progress, and that they were -fighting at that time in the neighborhood of 41st Street and 37th -Street, but, thinking that I could get home in 32nd Street before the -riot could get down to that street, I started uptown on the west side -of 7th Avenue, and had reached the northwest corner of 7th Avenue and -28th Street, when I saw three officers coming down 7th Avenue. In the -meantime three other colored men, whom I did not know, had caught up -with me, and were walking behind me. I had gone about one hundred feet -north of the aforesaid corner when I saw the three officers break into -a run in our direction. I was grabbed by one of them, while the other -two chased the three men who had come behind us and overtook them and -clubbed them; the officer who had me immediately, without saying a -word, struck me on the body with his club; then between the blows he -said, "Get out of here, you black son of a b——!" One of the blows he -aimed at my head, but I threw up my arm and received the blow on it. -It was such a severe blow that I was lame in it for quite some days. I -escaped from him as soon as I could, and ran to 28th Street, and down -28th Street to No. 211. I ran into the hallway and out into the back -yard, where I stayed all night in fear of my life. The officer followed -me, and when I ran into the hallway he clubbed the colored people who -were on the front stoop, and drove them into the house. During the -heavy rainstorm Wednesday night and early Thursday morning I took -refuge in a small place that led into the cellar of the said house. -Thursday morning about six o'clock I ventured out and went towards the -dock at the foot of West 24th Street, where I intended to go to work -again, and had reached 8th Avenue between 25th and 26th Streets, when -I saw two police officers on the opposite side of the street, one of -whom started to run towards me, but his companion stopped him, and drew -him back. Deponent states further that if he had not been interfered -with and clubbed by the police officer he could have reached his home -in safety, and that he saw no signs of a disturbance, such as a large -crowd of people, as far as he could see up the avenue; that deponent -was watching for such signs by reason of his having been warned twice. -Deponent also declares that he can identify the officer who clubbed -him; that he knows him by sight, and that, about a month before the -said clubbing, the same officer had come to him at his home, where -he lived at that time, in West 28th Street, and had told him that -the roundsman<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_10" id="Page_10">[Pg 10]</a></span> had got him, and that he had given him as an excuse -that he was at the house where deponent then lived and was quelling a -disturbance there, and asked deponent to verify that statement if the -roundsman asked him. Deponent promised so to do, notwithstanding the -fact that nothing of the kind had occurred there, and promised to do -so simply to get the officer out of trouble. That the officer's first -name is "Joe," and that he is attached to the 20th Precinct. Deponent -further declares that he was perfectly sober, and that the assault by -the officer was unwarranted and an outrage upon a peaceable citizen.</p> - -<p class="right">his<span class="s2"> </span> <br /> -<span class="smcap">Adolphus</span> x <span class="smcap">Cooks</span>.<br />mark<span class="s2"> </span></p> - -<p>Sworn to before me this 4th day of September, 1900.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Geo. P. Hammond, Jr.</span>, Notary Public (164), N. Y. County.</p> - -<hr class="smler" /> - -<p><i>City and County of New York, ss.</i>:</p> - -<p>Eugene Porter, being duly sworn, deposes and says: I reside at 202 -West 49th Street. On Wednesday, August 15th, 1900, between the hours -of nine and ten <span class="smaller">P. M.</span>, I was walking uptown on the west side -of 7th Avenue, on my way home. Everything about the neighborhood was -quiet. There were no signs of a disturbance, and I had not heard of -any trouble between the colored people and the white folks. I had -reached a point about one hundred feet north of 37th Street on 7th -Avenue, when I met a group of policemen, about six or eight in number. -One of them said to me, "What are you doing here, you black son of -a b——?" and without waiting for an answer struck me over the head -with his club, felling me to the sidewalk, and continued to strike me -about the body. I struggled to my feet, and implored the officers to -spare my life, but they continued to club me and left me unconscious -on the sidewalk. When I came to I arose to my feet and crawled home. -After I reached home I got my young son to accompany me to the New -York Hospital, where my wounds were dressed by Dr. Kenyon, of the -Hospital Staff, who put fourteen stitches in my head. Deponent states -further that he is troubled to this day with his head, as a result of -the injuries received at the hands of the police, and he fears that it -may yet seriously interfere with his following his business. Deponent -states further that he is engaged in the business of horse and dog -clipping, and that he can refer to the following-named persons for whom -he has done work at various times: E. S. Odell, proprietor of the<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_11" id="Page_11">[Pg 11]</a></span> -Saratoga Stables, 690 Madison Avenue, who has known him from infancy. -Dr. H. D. Gill, Veterinary Surgeon, 57th Street and 2nd Avenue. G. W. -Lynch, Morton Boarding Stables, Morton and Washington Streets. Joseph -Hartshorn, 168 East 68th Street.</p> - -<p class="right"><span class="smcap">Eugene Porter.</span></p> - -<p>Sworn to before me this 4th day of September, 1900.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Geo. P. Hammond, Jr.</span>, Notary Public (164), N. Y. County.</p> - -<hr class="smler" /> - -<p><i>City and County of New York, ss.</i>:</p> - -<p>Richard C. Creech, being duly sworn, deposes and says that he resides -at No. 137 West 53rd Street. That on Wednesday morning, August 15th, -1900, he had been to visit a friend at No. 312 West 45th Street, and -left there at about 10:45 <span class="smaller">P. M.</span> and walked to 8th Avenue, -and had reached the corner of 8th Avenue and 45th Street, when he was -set upon by a gang of rioters, and assaulted by them. That he shouted -"Police!" and seeing two officers on the east side of the avenue, -corner of 45th Street, he ran towards them when he saw them coming -towards him and slackened his pace, thinking that they were coming to -his assistance. When they came up to him, without saying a word, they -commenced clubbing him, and knocked him unconscious on the sidewalk. -He lay there unconscious for some time, he does not know exactly how -long, but when he came to he found one of the policeman standing over -him, and when he scrambled to his feet the policeman said, "Well, you -black son of a b——, I guess you will be good now, won't you? Get -out of here as quick as you can!" He then went towards Broadway, and -on Broadway between 45th and 46th Streets engaged a cab to take him -home, and when he arrived home found that his pocketbook, containing -thirty-six dollars in money and a pawnticket for a watch, was gone. -He also lost his hat and an umbrella. He sent for his physician, Dr. -Robert L. Cooper, 156 West 53rd Street, who took three stitches in his -scalp and dressed other wounds on his arm and hand, the result of the -clubbing.</p> - -<p class="right"><span class="smcap">Richard C. Creech.</span></p> - -<p>Sworn to before me this 1st day of September, 1900.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Geo. P. Hammond, Jr.</span>, Notary Public (164), N. Y. County.</p> - -<hr class="smler" /> - -<p><i>City and County of New York, ss.</i>:</p> - -<p>Duncan James, of No. 238 West 40th Street, engaged in business at 84 -and 86 Greene Street, care of G. Blum & Brother,<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_12" id="Page_12">[Pg 12]</a></span> being duly sworn, -says: On Wednesday, August 15th, I left the store and went to my tutor -at West 124th Street. I left there at ten <span class="smaller">P. M.</span>, and when I -reached 43rd Street and 8th Avenue three men jumped on the car and -struck me in the face. Passengers advised me not to get off at 40th -Street. When I arrived at 34th Street men saw me on the car, and when -it reached 33rd Street the car stopped suddenly and everybody jumped -off. The car was surrounded by a mob. I had no weapon or protection -but a cane. I kept them off the best I could. About twelve officers -came and took me from the mob. They took me about one hundred and fifty -feet from 8th Avenue in 33rd Street West, and as they turned me loose -the officers pounded me severely with clubs over my head, arms, and -shoulders, telling me to run. I had then lost my hat, cane, and books. -I went back to my teacher's house and stayed all night. I was the only -negro man there. In West 33rd Street a man gave me a hat. I could find -him. I begged the officers to lock me up for protection, and they would -not. Dr. Swinburne treated me.</p> - -<p class="right"><span class="smcap">Duncan James.</span></p> - -<p>Sworn to before me this 31st day of August, 1900.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Frank Moss</span>, Notary Public, N. Y. County.</p> - -<hr class="smler" /> - -<p><i>City and County of New York, ss.</i>:</p> - -<p>Mack Thomas, being duly sworn, deposes and says:</p> - -<p>I reside at 238 West 40th Street. On Wednesday, August 15th, 1900, I -attended the St. Paul Baptist Church in West 43rd Street, and at about -ten <span class="smaller">P. M.</span> left for home. Knowing that the rioters were at -work, I decided, instead of taking my usual route home, to go to 9th -Avenue and transfer to 34th Street, to 7th Avenue, and thence back to -40th Street, thinking by that means to be able to avoid the rioters and -reach home in safety. I boarded a 9th Avenue car at 43rd Street and -transferred at 9th Avenue, and had reached the corner of 8th Avenue -and 34th Street, when I saw a mob on the corner, and heard them shout, -"There's two on the car; go after them, get them; lynch the niggers!" I -stayed on the car until the mob boarded the car, when I jumped off and -ran east on 34th Street pursued by the mob, several members of which -struck me with their fists, but with no serious result. I had got so -far as the middle of the block when I met four or five officers, one -of whom stepped in front of me and struck me a blow with his club on -the head, cutting it open. When he did so he said, "Who hit you?" I -said nothing; then he said, "Get on the car, you black son of a<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_13" id="Page_13">[Pg 13]</a></span> b——, -and get home out of here!" I got on the car and reached home without -any further interference. Deponent declares it to be his belief that -if he had not been stopped by the police, and struck by them, he would -have reached his home without any serious injury; not mentioning the -fact that the police made no attempt whatever to interfere with the -mob. Deponent further declares that he would prefer to have taken -his chances with the mob than to have met the said police officers. -Deponent further declares that he was perfectly sober, was proceeding -quietly on his way home, and was taking extraordinary measures to reach -his home in safety and without violence.</p> - -<p class="right"><span class="smcap">Mack Thomas.</span></p> - -<p>Sworn to before me this 5th day of September, 1900.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Geo. P. Hammond, Jr.</span>, Notary Public (164), N. Y. County.</p> - -<hr class="smler" /> - -<p><i>City and County of New York, ss.</i>:</p> - -<p>Miss Belle Johnson, being duly sworn, deposes and says:</p> - -<p>I reside at 275 West 39th Street. On Wednesday evening, August 15th, -1900, between nine and ten o'clock, I heard a disturbance in the -street, and going to my window on 8th Avenue I saw a crowd of people on -the sidewalk, and saw them rush toward a Negro boy who was standing on -the corner (northeast corner 39th Street and 8th Avenue) and beat him. -He rushed into a delicatessen store on 8th Avenue, but was thrust out -by the proprietor. When he reached the sidewalk two officers grabbed -him and clubbed him and then pushed him into the crowd, saying with an -oath, "Run now, for your life!" He then ran to 39th Street and east on -39th Street with fully one hundred people after him. Right after this -occurrence a colored man came along, and after being attacked by the -mob was knocked over towards four police officers who were standing -on the corner, one of whom was Officer 6312. All four of the officers -then rushed for this man and clubbed him unmercifully about the head -and body. I could not stand the sight any longer and shouted to the -officers that it was a shame when police officers, who were supposed -to be protecting peaceable citizens, assaulted them in such a brutal -manner. About this time they ceased clubbing the man and thrust him -out into the crowd of rioters. This sort of thing continued during the -entire night, and until the next day, as at nine <span class="smaller">A. M.</span>, when -I went out on an errand, I saw a colored man, who was carrying a small -sign, beaten by a crowd of roughs. I saw a number of colored<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_14" id="Page_14">[Pg 14]</a></span> persons -struck who were riding on the cars, and at least six colored men -clubbed by the police during this time.</p> - -<p class="right"><span class="smcap">Belle Johnson.</span></p> - -<p>Sworn to before me this 5th day of September, 1900.</p> - -<p><i>Geo. P. Hammond, Jr.</i>, Notary Public (164), N. Y. County.</p> - -<hr class="smler" /> - -<p><i>City and County of New York, ss.</i>:</p> - -<p>Mrs. Fannie Lewis, being duly sworn, deposes and says:</p> - -<p>She has read the foregoing affidavit of Miss Belle Johnson, and that -she knows of her own knowledge that the facts therein stated are true.</p> - -<p class="right"><span class="smcap">Fannie Lewis.</span></p> - -<p>Sworn to before me this 5th day of September, 1900.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Geo. P. Hammond, Jr.</span>, Notary Public (164), N. Y. County.</p> - -<hr class="smler" /> - -<p><i>City and County of New York, ss.</i>:</p> - -<p>Chester Smith, being duly sworn, deposes and says:</p> - -<p>I reside at No. 320 West 37th Street. I am employed in Flannery's drug -store, at No. 103 West 42nd Street, and have been so employed for the -last ten months. On August 15th, 1900, at about ten o'clock <span class="smaller">P. -M.</span>, while going to my home, walking on the west side of 8th Avenue -between 38th and 39th Streets, I saw a crowd of people, composed mostly -of police officers and children. Some one in the crowd said, "There is -a nigger!" pointing at me. One of the policemen ran towards me, and -seeing that I was in physical danger I ran away from the place, going -north to 39th Street on 8th Avenue. Somebody threw a brick at me, which -struck me in the back, and then one of the policemen came up to me -and struck me in the left eye with his club. My eye and my forehead -are still lacerated and discolored. I then ran into the saloon at the -southeast corner of 39th Street and 8th Avenue. One of the policemen -ran in after me, and told me to go outside and run towards Broadway; -that the mob had dispersed. I started toward the door, and as I reached -it I saw that they were still waiting outside. I said to the officer as -I started back into the saloon, "No, sir, I can't go out there; they'll -kill me." The policeman then lifted me from the ground and threw me -through the swinging door into the street. The glass in the door was -broken, and I fell on my hands and knees. The policemen and the mob -then began beating me, the policemen beating me with their clubs.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_15" id="Page_15">[Pg 15]</a></span> They -did not disperse the crowd or protect me from it. I then started to -run towards Broadway; another policeman ran after me and struck me in -the back with his club. I staggered, made one or two jumps, and fell -in front of No. 236 West 39th Street. The lady of the house, a white -woman, came out, and I was taken into the house by some one, I don't -know whom. Two or three days after she told me that the officers soon -left the house, but that the mob tried to break in, and that she told -them that if they would not leave she would kill them. The lady rang -for a messenger boy and sent word to my employer to call. He came and -brought some bandages, etc., and bandaged my head. He then called two -police officers and asked them to take me to the station house. They -refused. He insisted, and they finally yielded and took me to the -station house. I was treated there by a police surgeon. My employer -remained with me until three o'clock the next morning. I did not work -for three days after this. I saw one man treated very harshly at the -station house, being clubbed by police officers, and I believe he would -have been treated still worse if it had not been for the presence of -reporters. I did nothing whatever to justify this brutal treatment on -the part of the police officers. I believe that had it not been for the -presence of my employer I would have been beaten still more. There were -over twenty-five policemen in the crowd. I was unconscious part of the -time. I have never been arrested in my life.</p> - -<p class="right"><span class="smcap">Chester Smith.</span></p> - -<p>Sworn to before me this 5th day of September, 1900.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Geo. P. Hammond, Jr.</span>, Notary Public (164), N. Y. County.</p> - -<hr class="smler" /> - -<p>On September 13th, 1900, I visited the premises No. 236 West 39th -Street and found that the occupant thereof was the woman who rescued -Chester Smith from the hands of the mob, and that her name is Mrs. -Davenport. She stated that she did not want to make an affidavit or -statement of the occurrence, but volunteered the information that she -had sheltered two or three Negroes during the night of August 15th -and the morning of the 16th, also that several police officers who -attempted to get into her house, at the time that she rescued the said -Smith, acted and spoke in an insulting manner, one of them saying, -"What kind of a woman are you, to be harboring niggers?"</p> - -<p class="right"><span class="smcap">George P. Hammond, Jr.</span></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_16" id="Page_16">[Pg 16]</a></span></p> - -<hr class="smler" /> - -<p><i>City and County of New York, ss.</i>:</p> - -<p>Harry L. Craig, being duly sworn, deposes and says:</p> - -<p>I reside at No. 226 West 28th Street. I am employed as a hall boy at -the apartment houses Nos. 102 and 104 East 26th Street. On August -15th, 1900, I left the apartment house a little after twelve o'clock, -that being the time I usually go home. I walked on 26th Street to -6th Avenue, then turned into 6th Avenue and walked to 27th Street; I -then walked on 27th Street to 8th Avenue, turned into 8th Avenue, and -went into the saloon at 8th Avenue and 28th Street, southwest corner, -where I had a drink, and left about 12:20, going home on 28th Street. -As I neared M. Groh's Son's Brewery on that block some one hit me -on the head with a club; I turned around and saw three policemen in -uniform, and behind them was a mob of at least fifty men. The street -was very dark. I started to run home, but one of the officers tripped -me, and I fell. I was then clubbed by the police and the mob into -unconsciousness. When I recovered I found that the police and the mob -had left. I picked up my hat and got up, and started to walk to our -house, which was only a few feet away, but I staggered and fell several -times. When I reached home the lady I live with, Mrs. Wisham, washed my -face with witch-hazel; my jaw was so sore that I could hardly open my -mouth. For a few days after this I felt sore all over my body, from the -effects of this clubbing. I was clubbed by three officers. The officers -led the crowd, and did not interfere when others were beating me. -They made no attempt to disperse the crowd. I did nothing whatever to -justify this brutal assault upon me by the police. I was never arrested -in my life. I was not in the neighborhood while the riots were going on -in the early part of the evening. The police did not give any reason -for acting as they did, and when I fell unconscious they left me alone -in the dark street.</p> - -<p class="right"><span class="smcap">Harry S. Craig.</span></p> - -<p>Sworn to before me this 13th day of September, 1900.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Frank Moss</span>, Notary Public, N. Y. County.</p> - -<hr class="smler" /> - -<p><i>City and County of New York, ss.</i>:</p> - -<p>John L. Newman, being duly sworn, deposes and says:</p> - -<p>I reside at No. 351 West 37th Street, in the rear house. On August -15th, 1900, I went to the restaurant which is in the front building, -for supper. This was about 10:30 <span class="smaller">P. M.</span> After I had been there -a few minutes some one told me that the mob<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_17" id="Page_17">[Pg 17]</a></span> was coming. I had seen -them beat colored people during the evening, without any cause, so -I walked out of the restaurant into my apartments, which are in the -rear, only a few steps away; I live in the basement floor. I did this -so as to avoid any trouble. As I reached the front door and walked in -I closed it, and proceeded to go into my apartments. Four officers -immediately came, and one of them said, "Stop!" and kicked open the -door. Then one of them grabbed me and said, "Here is a d——d nigger; -kill him!" The four officers then beat me with their clubs until I -became unconscious. They then carried me to the station house. I was -unconscious during all this time, but my friends tell me that the -police were beating me all the way to the station house. It is located -one block west from where I live. At the station house I recovered my -consciousness. I was arraigned before the sergeant, and the officer -who struck me first made the complaint against me. At the sergeant's -desk I felt very weak, bleeding from my head and eye, and I held on -to the railing for support. One of the officers struck me in the ribs -with a night stick, and said, "God d—n you, stand up there!" I fell -forward on the sergeant's desk, and I said, "For God's sake, take a -gun and blow out my brains! If you have got to take a life, take mine, -and don't murder me this way!" The sergeant then said very gruffly to -the officer, "Take him away!" While all this was going on Chief of -Police Devery was in the station house standing about ten feet away, -talking to somebody whom I did not know. He saw all this, but did not -interfere, conversing with the man all the time, as if nothing unusual -was going on. I have known Chief Devery for three or four years, and -have spoken with him in a friendly way many times. When I was brought -into the muster room, in the rear of the station house, I saw several -colored people being treated for their wounds. I was bleeding from -my head and eye, and could not see well, and I sat down in the wrong -chair. Two policemen then came over to me, pulled me out of the chair, -and were raising their clubs to strike me when some one said, "Don't -hit this man any more," and they obeyed. My wounds were then dressed, -and I was taken to a cell. About twelve o'clock, when the officer -who was making the prison rounds came to my cell, I asked him for -permission to see the sergeant. He asked why, and I told him that my -house was unlocked, and that I wished he would send an officer to lock -it. He said he would speak to the sergeant about it. In a few minutes -he returned and said, "The sergeant said,<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_18" id="Page_18">[Pg 18]</a></span> 'D—n him,' and that 'he had -no business with the house,'" and he did not send anyone to lock it and -protect my property. While I was in the station house I saw a colored -man, John Haines, struck by several officers with their clubs. He was -naked, only wearing a little undershirt. The officers were striking all -the colored men in the station house, and without any interference. -In court, the next morning, I was arraigned before Judge Cornell. The -officer swore that I was causing a riot in the street, I denied this. -I did not have any witnesses in court, because I did not have any -opportunity to produce them. The Judge did not ask me whether I wanted -an examination or not, and expressed his doubts as to my guilt, and -said the case was "very curious." But the officers were persistent in -their false statements, aforesaid, and the magistrate put me under $100 -bonds to keep the peace. Not being able to furnish this, I was sent to -the Penitentiary, where I was for thirty days. I was treated at the -Penitentiary by Dr. Thomas Higgins, who told me that my head would -never be right as long as I lived. I have been sick ever since. Dr. -Higgins told me that he would testify for me in any proceeding which -I might institute. I am employed by the Metropolitan Street Railway -Company as a rockman, but am unable to work at present. I have lived in -New York City for over forty-three years, and have never been arrested -before in my life. I did not participate in the riots, was not on the -street, and did nothing whatever to justify this conduct on the part of -the police. I can recognize the officer who made the charge against me; -he was the first to strike me.</p> - -<p class="right"><span class="smcap">John L. Newman.</span></p> - -<p>Sworn to before me this 19th day of September, 1900.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">John F. Maccolgan</span>, Notary Public (4), N. Y. County.</p> - -<p class="center">(The officer in the case was Holland.)</p> - -<hr class="smler" /> - -<p><i>City and County of New York, ss.</i>:</p> - -<p>Mrs. Martha A. Brown, being duly sworn, deposes and says:</p> - -<p>I reside at No. 351 West 37th Street. On Wednesday, August 15th, 1900, -about 10:15 <span class="smaller">P. M.</span>, while on my way upstairs I saw John Newman, -who lives in the rear house at the above number, come in the front door -and close it; he had almost reached the rear of the hall when the front -door was opened by a policeman who had his club raised, and who ran up -to the said Newman, struck him over the head with his club, felling -him to the floor; he then dragged Newman to the street, clubbing him<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_19" id="Page_19">[Pg 19]</a></span> -meanwhile, and at the front door he was joined by four other officers, -who assisted him to drag Newman out into the street, where they threw -him into the midst of the mob which had congregated outside, and some -of whom jumped on Newman, stamping on his stomach with their feet. -Newman was then again taken by the officers and dragged to the station -house on the next block. Deponent states further that Newman did not -appear to be trying to get away from anyone, when he entered the front -door, and further when he was struck first he was struck from behind.</p> - -<p class="right"><span class="smcap">Martha A. Brown.</span></p> - -<p>Sworn to before me this 24th day of September, 1900.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Geo. P. Hammond, Jr.</span>, Notary Public (164), N. Y. County.</p> - -<hr class="smler" /> - -<p><i>City and County of New York, ss.</i>:</p> - -<p>Mrs. Betty Green, being duly sworn, deposes and says:</p> - -<p>I reside at No. 353 West 37th Street, Manhattan Borough, New York City. -On Wednesday, August 15th, 1900, about eleven <span class="smaller">P. M.</span>, I saw -John Newman coming out of the restaurant next door, No. 351, and spoke -a few words to him, and saw him go into the hall door of the house -in the rear of which he lived. Almost immediately I saw two officers -in uniform, and about three others in citizens' clothes. The two in -uniform ran into the hallway after the said John Newman, some of the -officers saying, "Get the black son of a b——, and kill him!" Shortly -afterward I saw the two men in uniform drag Newman out onto the stoop, -clubbing him meanwhile. He sank to the stoop and lay there for some -time. While he lay there a patrol wagon went by, and the officers tried -to get it to stop; but it went on. They then took Newman and led him on -down towards the station house. All the way to 9th Avenue every officer -they met took a crack at him. Deponent states that Newman was perfectly -sober, and had done nothing from the time that he left the restaurant -till the officers ran after him into the hallway. She saw him make no -resistance after the officers got him and clubbed him.</p> - -<p class="right"><span class="smcap">Betty Green</span>.</p> - -<p>Sworn to before me this 27th day of September, 1900.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Geo. P. Hammond, Jr.</span>, Notary Public (164), N. Y. County.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_20" id="Page_20">[Pg 20]</a></span></p> - -<hr class="smler" /> - -<p><i>City and County of New York, ss.</i>:</p> - -<p>Miss Albertha L. Clark, being duly sworn, deposes and says:</p> - -<p>I reside at No. 351 West 37th Street. On Wednesday, August 15th, 1900, -between eleven and ten o'clock <span class="smaller">P. M.</span>, while looking out of the -front window of my home, I saw an officer strike a colored man over the -head with his club, and the man ran down towards my home, in front of -which another officer hit him over the head with his club, and still -another officer kicked him; then two officers took him to the station -house. While this was going on I heard a noise in the hall, and in a -few minutes I saw a colored man dragged from the hallway of my home, -whom I recognized as John Newman, who lived in the rear house; the -officers threw him into the mob, whereupon I left the window to see -what had become of my folks, and when I returned to the window the -officers were dragging Newman to the station house. After the above -occurrence officers came through 37th Street from 8th Avenue, and -ordered people who were sitting at the windows to go away from there, -and without giving them sufficient time to do so drew their revolvers -and fired them at the occupants of the windows.</p> - -<p class="right"><span class="smcap">Albertha L. Clark.</span></p> - -<p>Sworn to before me this 24th day of September, 1900.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Geo. P. Hammond, Jr.</span>, Notary Public (164), N. Y. County.</p> - -<hr class="smler" /> - -<p><i>City and County of New York, ss.</i>:</p> - -<p>Mrs. Lucinda Thomson, being duly sworn, deposes and says:</p> - -<p>I reside at No. 351 West 37th Street. On Wednesday, August 15th, 1900, -I was at home and in my rooms between the hours of ten and eleven -<span class="smaller">P. M.</span> I have heard the statements given by my two daughters, -namely, Albertha L. Clark and Mrs. Martha A. Brown, and have heard read -the affidavits made and subscribed to by them, and I know of my own -knowledge that all the facts therein stated are true.</p> - -<p class="right">her<span class="s3"> </span> <br /> -<span class="smcap">Mrs. Lucinda</span> x <span class="smcap">Thomson</span>.<br /> -mark<span class="s3"> </span></p> - -<p>Sworn to before me this 24th day of September, 1900.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Geo. P. Hammond, Jr.</span>, Notary Public (164), N. Y. County.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_21" id="Page_21">[Pg 21]</a></span></p> - -<hr class="smler" /> - -<p><i>City and County of New York, ss.</i>:</p> - -<p>Mrs. Elizabeth Brown, being duly sworn, deposes and says:</p> - -<p>I reside at No. 458 Seventh Avenue, New York City. On Saturday, August -18th, 1900, my brother, Charles A. Mitchell, twenty-seven years of age, -and employed as a waiter, had heard of the riots and was on his way -to see me, and had reached the corner of 34th Street and 7th Avenue, -when he saw a mob of about five hundred people, led by eight or nine -officers, who upon seeing him attacked and clubbed him, hitting him -on the head and shoulders. He managed to reach the front door of my -home and run into it, where I aided him and put him on a lounge; this -was about ten o'clock on Saturday evening. His wife came to see him -about 10:30 and took him home about one o'clock Sunday morning, where -he stayed until about two <span class="smaller">A. M.</span>, when he became violent, and -it became necessary to send him to the insane pavilion of Bellevue -Hospital. All the time he was shouting in his delirium, "Devery did -it! Devery did it! Here they come!" Deponent declares that while in -the insane pavilion of Bellevue Hospital her brother, the said Charles -A. Mitchell, was beaten and maltreated by the attendants thereat, he -having a gash in his head about three inches long, and similar cuts on -his wrist and two on his leg. He stayed at Bellevue from Sunday, the -19th of August, 1900, to Thursday, the 23rd of August, 1900, when he -was removed to Ward's Island Insane Asylum. Deponent states further -that her brother is of very slight build, being only five feet six -inches in height and weighing about one hundred and twelve pounds, and -that she witnessed the clubbing of her brother by the police as she was -looking out of the front window at the time, and that the said clubbing -was unjustifiable and brutal, and wholly without cause.</p> - -<p class="right"><span class="smcap">Mrs. Elizabeth Brown.</span></p> - -<p>Sworn to before me this 20th day of September, 1900.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Geo. P. Hammond, Jr.</span>, Notary Public (164), N. Y. County.</p> - -<hr class="smler" /> - -<p><i>City and County of New York, ss.</i>:</p> - -<p>Mrs. Elizabeth Brown, being duly sworn, deposes and says:</p> - -<p>On Saturday, August 18th, 1900, I saw the mob going towards 37th -Street, and while watching them I saw a colored man come up from a -house somewhere on 7th Avenue between 36th and 37th Streets and run -toward 35th Street. Some of the officers saw him and ran after him, -catching him and clubbing him,<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_22" id="Page_22">[Pg 22]</a></span> leaving him lying on the car track -for dead. He was picked up by some men and taken to a saloon on the -northeast corner of 36th Street and 7th Avenue.</p> - -<p class="right"><span class="smcap">Mrs. Elizabeth Brown.</span></p> - -<p>Sworn to before me this 20th day of September, 1900.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Geo. P. Hammond, Jr.</span>, Notary Public (164), N. Y. County.</p> - -<hr class="smler" /> - -<p><i>City and County of New York, ss.</i>:</p> - -<p>Willis King, being duly sworn, deposes and says:</p> - -<p>I reside at 346 West 41st Street, New York City. On Wednesday. August -15th, 1900, while passing through 34th Street, about 11:30 <span class="smaller">P. -M.</span>, I was joined by a crowd of men and boys. I crossed over to the -north side of the street, to where about a dozen officers stood, on the -northeast corner, in front of a saloon. I was grabbed by three of them -as soon as I got near them, and without saying a word they started me -up 8th Avenue towards the station house. On the way up 8th Avenue the -officer who was behind me, and who was feeling my clothes and pockets -for weapons, said, "He has nothing." Whereupon the officer on my right -suggested that they go down a dark street, which was done by turning -west on 35th Street. We had gone about one third of the way down the -block, on the south side of the street, when all three officers turned -on me and beat me with their clubs over the head and body. I was felled -to the sidewalk. When they stopped one of them remarked. "I guess that -will do him for a while," whereupon all three of them walked off, -leaving me lying upon the sidewalk. I managed to get to No. 327 West -35th Street, when a lady by the name of Mrs. Smith, who lives on the -second floor, and who had seen the officers clubbing some one, was -standing on the front stoop of her home; she asked me when she saw me -whether it was I that had been clubbed, and I told her that it was. -She then took me into Mrs. Conner's apartments on the first floor and -dressed the cuts in my head. Deponent declares that he did not know -anything about a disturbance, that he did not resist arrest, and that -he was perfectly sober and on his way home from visiting a friend on -East 27th Street.</p> - -<p class="right"><span class="smcap">Willis King.</span></p> - -<p>Sworn to before me this 27th day of September, 1900.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Geo. P. Hammond, Jr.</span>, Notary Public (164). N. Y. County.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_23" id="Page_23">[Pg 23]</a></span></p> - -<hr class="smler" /> - -<p><i>City and County of New York, ss.</i>:</p> - -<p>Isaiah O. Ferguson, being duly sworn, deposes and says:</p> - -<p>I reside at 165 East 97th Street, New York City. On Wednesday evening, -August 15th, 1900, I started to go downtown on the West Side, and had -reached the neighborhood of 8th Avenue and 43rd Street, riding on an -8th Avenue car, which was of the combination type, and I was in the -closed part, when I reached the aforementioned place. I noticed a large -crowd of people, and patrol wagons and ambulances. I inquired from a -gentleman who sat next to me what was the matter, and he replied that -he did not know. We proceeded downtown and had reached the neighborhood -of 36th Street, when suddenly the car, which had been proceeding very -slowly, came to a dead stop. The motorman and the conductor both folded -their arms and looked at me. The next I knew a number of men jumped on -the car, some coming through the windows, and commenced beating me, -and continued to beat me until I was insensible. When I came to, the -car had started and was going slowly. I was bewildered and dazed, and -I rushed from the car and downtown, several people on the way trying -to stop me, but I was crazed with pain and fled on, until I was met by -a lady friend, who stopped me on seeing my condition, and took me to -her home, on 17th Street near 9th Avenue, where she bathed my head and -dressed my wounds, and where I stayed until the next morning, when I -went to Washington, D. C., where a physician attended to me. Deponent -further states as the car stopped he noticed four police officers on -the east side of the avenue, and that they made no attempt whatever to -interfere with the mob: further, that he was proceeding on his journey -in a quiet manner, and had not heard of any trouble, and that he had -given absolutely no cause for the attack.</p> - -<p class="right"><span class="smcap">I. O. Ferguson.</span></p> - -<p>Sworn to before me this 21st day of September, 1900.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Geo. P. Hammond, Jr.</span>, Notary Public (164), N. Y. County.</p> - -<hr class="smler" /> - -<p><i>City and County of New York, ss.</i>:</p> - -<p>Headly Johnson, being duly sworn, deposes and says: I reside at 330 -West 53rd Street. I am employed as a Pullman car porter, on the cars -running out of the West Shore depot, Weehawken, N. J. I arrived on my -train at the said depot on Thursday, August 16th, 1900, at 2:25 <span class="smaller">P. -M.</span> I arrived in New York about<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_24" id="Page_24">[Pg 24]</a></span> 5:30 <span class="smaller">P. M.</span> the same day, -and, having heard of the riots, I had prepared to protect myself from -the mob by carrying home with me a revolver. I boarded a car at the -West Shore ferry at the foot of West 42nd Street and transferred to -an 8th Avenue car at 34th Street, and had proceeded as far as 40th -Street, when the car was assailed by a mob shouting, "There's another -nigger! Kill him! lynch him!" I stood up and was ready to defend -myself, when a passenger on the car asked me to sit down, saying that -if the mob got on the car he would help me defend myself. I sat down as -requested, and happening to look over my shoulder I saw three police -officers in uniform running after the car. They boarded the car, and, -seizing me, one of the officers put his hand in my pocket and took -the revolver from me, then pulled me off the car, saying, "Come off -of here, you black son of a b——!" When they had pulled me off the -car they immediately commenced clubbing me, and continued to do so all -the way to the station house. While in the station house I saw several -colored men beaten by police officers. The sergeant at the desk, when -I was sent to a cell, shouted to the police officers, "Don't hit this -man!" repeating the same several times. I was taken to the police court -the next day, where I was discharged. Deponent states further that the -officer who arrested him and appeared against him in the police court -is the one who did the most of the clubbing; in fact, all of it except -one blow. Deponent declares further that he was proceeding quietly to -his home, where he was determined to go, and was not molesting anyone, -and that when the officers signified their intention to arrest him -he made no show of resistance, and that therefore the clubbing was -unjustifiable and an outrage.</p> - -<p class="right"><span class="smcap">Headly Johnson.</span></p> - -<p>Sworn to before me this 8th day of September, 1900.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Geo. P. Hammond, Jr.</span>, Notary Public (164), N. Y. County.</p> - -<hr class="smler" /> - -<p><i>City and County of New York, ss.</i>:</p> - -<p>Benjamin McCoy, being duly sworn, deposes and says: I reside at 226 -West 40th Street. On Thursday, August 16th, 1900, about five <span class="smaller">A. -M.</span>, I arose to go to my work. I went to Dobbins' restaurant, on -8th Avenue between 40th and 41st Streets, and had breakfast, after -finishing which I went to the corner of 41st Street to board an 8th -Avenue car, to reach my place of business. As I was standing waiting -for the car I saw two officers walking on the east side of the street, -and a colored man came running along with blood streaming from his -head, and said to me, "Don't<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_25" id="Page_25">[Pg 25]</a></span> stand there; go away, or those policemen -will club you to death; they just clubbed me." The car came along just -then, and I walked out to get on board, and had put my hand on the -rail, when one of the officers who had been on the other side of the -street came suddenly around from behind the car, and struck me on the -shin of my left leg, and struck me several times on the upper part of -the leg, saying, "Get in there, get in there! What are you standing -around here whistling for?" Deponent declares that he was not creating -any disturbance at the time, and that there were not over four or -five persons, outside of the police officers, on the street in the -immediate neighborhood, and that the assault was entirely unwarranted -and unjustifiable and a flagrant outrage, perpetrated, by one by whom -deponent would expect, and had a right to expect, to be protected.</p> - -<p class="right"><span class="smcap">Benjamin McCoy.</span></p> - -<p>Sworn to before me this 7th day of September, 1900.</p> - -<hr class="smler" /> - -<p><i>City and County of New York, ss.</i>:</p> - -<p>Albert Saunders, being duly sworn, deposes and says: I live at 440 West -45th Street. I work at 118 West 27th Street. On August 15th I left -my work at night and walked up 8th Avenue toward my home. About 38th -Street a crowd ran at me, somebody struck me, and I staggered, and then -I received another blow that cut open my head and made me speechless. -I found myself in the hands of an officer, who took me to the station -house, where my wound was dressed. I stayed there till about four -<span class="smaller">A. M.</span> A number of colored men were brought in by officers, -some of them cut and bleeding, like myself. I remember a colored man -who was brought in bleeding, and naked except for a merino shirt. When -he was taken back to the cells the policeman who had him clubbed his -legs. Another man who had a cut head was advised by the jailer to put -his head under the hydrant, but the man said he was afraid the officer -who had him would strike him again if he got his head down, so the -jailer got a pail and washed it. I was not in a position where I could -see clearly all that happened, but I saw several other colored men -struck and abused by policemen. I am an English subject, was born in -St. Kitts, and suppose that my speech showed that I was not an American -and protected me.</p> - -<p class="right"><span class="smcap">Albert Saunders.</span></p> - -<p>Sworn to before me this 5th day of September, 1900.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Frank Moss</span>, Notary Public, N. Y. County.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_26" id="Page_26">[Pg 26]</a></span></p> - -<hr class="smler" /> - -<p><i>City and County of New York, ss.</i>:</p> - -<p>George White, of 145 West 32nd Street, being duly sworn, deposes and -says that on Wednesday, August 15th, 1900, at half past ten <span class="smaller">P. -M.</span>, while riding on a 34th Street car, going east, he saw and -heard a crowd of boys and young men running and yelling at the car that -he was on, and that immediately after he saw three police officers -board the said car, and upon seeing deponent they grabbed him by the -arm and clubbed him over the head and arms, pulled him off the car, -and continued to club him. They then took him to the West 37th Street -station house, where his wounds were dressed by a surgeon from one of -the hospitals, who was there. Deponent further states that he is not -addicted to the use of liquor, had not been drinking on the said day, -and that he was not intoxicated at the time of the clubbing; that he -was not placed under arrest, and that he remained in the station house -until after the storm came up, or as near as he can remember about -three o'clock <span class="smaller">A. M.</span> the next morning, by reason of being told -that there was a mob outside waiting to beat all Negroes that they -could catch. Further, that by reason of the suddenness of the attack he -did not look closely at the assailants, so as to be able to identify -them.</p> - -<p class="right">his<span class="s2"> </span> <br /> -<span class="smcap">George</span> x <span class="smcap">White</span>.<br /> -mark<span class="s2"> </span></p> - -<p>Sworn to before me this 28th day of August, 1900.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Geo. P. Hammond, Jr.</span>, Notary Public (164), N. Y. County.</p> - -<hr class="smler" /> - -<p><i>City and County of New York, ss.</i>:</p> - -<p>Charles Bennett, being duly sworn, deposes and says:</p> - -<p>I reside at No. 309 West 37th Street. On August 15th, 1900, I was -working for a man named Mr. O'Connor, who keeps a saloon at Coney -Island. I quit work at one o'clock <span class="smaller">A. M.</span> the next day (August -16th), and started for home with a man named Wilson. We boarded an 8th -Avenue car at Warren Street and Broadway, which was going north; just -before we reached the street whereon I reside the conductor of the car -upon which we were riding told us that there had been a riot, that it -was because of the death of the police officer, and that they were -attacking every colored man that they caught. I then said that we had -better get off; the conductor then said that it was "pretty quiet" when -he came down. We got off the car at 8th Avenue and 37th Street, and at -3:30 <span class="smaller">A. M.</span> had almost reached<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_27" id="Page_27">[Pg 27]</a></span> the front door of my home when -several police officers from among a group of about a dozen called to -me asking me where I was going. I told them, "Home here." I was then -in front of my door, and immediately after making my reply an officer -hit me with his club, knocking me down. I struggled to my feet and -endeavored to run towards 8th Avenue, but was pursued by the officers -and knocked down again at the corner of 8th Avenue and 36th Street. It -was raining very hard at the time, and they threw me into the gutter, -which was full of rain water; they kept my head in the water until I -strangled, when they let up, jumped on me, and pushed me back again -into the gutter. After a while they called a patrol wagon, into which -they threw me, and beat me all the way to the station house in 37th -Street. Upon my arrival there my head had been cut open; I was covered -with blood and bruises from the beating and clubbing I had received. -While in the station house I told Captain Cooney that I had been -clubbed by policemen. I remained in the station house for about half -an hour, and while there I heard a man who was dressed in citizen's -clothes say to the officers present, "Club every d——d nigger you see; -kill them; shoot them; be brave, the same as I was." The man answered, -"All right; will you stick to us?" He answered, "Yes, I'll stand by -you." I heard this man called Thompson by some of the officers. He -went among the colored men who were present and who were in almost as -bad condition as I was, asking their names, where they had lived, and -what they had been doing. After receiving their answers he said to each -of them, "Get ter h—l home out of here; they'd ought ter have killed -yer!" When he came to me he said, "What's your name?" I told him; then -he said, "What were you doing?" I said, "I just come from work at Coney -Island." He exclaimed, "Coney Island, eh! That's a d——d nice place to -be working. Where do you live?" I told him, when he said, "Another nice -place right in my district, the worst block in the whole district." He -did not tell me to get out, but I was shortly after taken to Roosevelt -Hospital and from there to Bellevue Hospital, where I remained a week, -when I was taken to 54th Street Court, where I had a hearing and was -discharged on August 28th, 1900. While I was being clubbed in the -street one of the officers said, "Search him," whereupon they stopped -the clubbing long enough to search my pockets and take fourteen dollars -in bills from me, which I had in my hip pocket of my trousers. I have -never had the said money returned to me.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_28" id="Page_28">[Pg 28]</a></span> While I was in the station -house Captain Cooney was there, but not in uniform, and the aforesaid -man whom they called Thompson was giving orders to the men, in the -presence of Captain Cooney. At the time that I had reached my home on -the said night there was no disturbance in the neighborhood, and there -was but one man in sight, and he was chased away by the officers. -Everything was quiet in the neighborhood, and on the way uptown on the -car I saw no signs of a disturbance, and would not have known anything -about there having been anything of the kind if I had not been informed -by the car conductor. I can identify two of the officers who took part -in the clubbing, one of whom was dressed in citizen's clothes, and who, -I think, was one of the wardmen attached to that precinct. (The witness -subsequently identified Officer Herman Ohm.) Deponent further states -that he has resided in the City of New York for the past fifteen years, -and has never been arrested before in his life, and has always been a -quiet, law-abiding citizen.</p> - -<p class="right">his<span class="s3"> </span> <br /> -<span class="smcap">Charles</span> x <span class="smcap">Bennett</span>.<br /> -mark<span class="s3"> </span></p> - -<p>Sworn to before me this 31st day of August, 1900.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Geo. P. Hammond, Jr.</span>, Notary Public (164), N. Y. County.</p> - -<hr class="smler" /> - -<p><i>City and County of New York, ss.</i>:</p> - -<p>James Joseph Lockett, being duly sworn, deposes and says:</p> - -<p>I reside at No. 323 West 37th Street, in the Borough of Manhattan. I -am a cigar maker, and am employed by Gahio & Roverie, on East 37th -Street. On Wednesday, August 15th, 1900, at about eight <span class="smaller">P. M.</span>, -accompanied by my wife, I called at the residence of Thomas H. McGuire, -a friend of mine who resides at No. 410 West 36th Street, where we -remained until about 11:15 <span class="smaller">P. M.</span> We walked east on 36th Street -to 8th Avenue, where we met four police officers in uniform on the -northwest corner. We passed them and turned into 8th Avenue, walking on -the west side of the avenue, towards 37th Street. We had not gone over -fifty feet when the officers ran after us and beat us with their clubs. -One of the officers said to me. "You black son of a b——, you have a -knife!" and struck me on the head with a club several times, and then -led us to the station house. There we were searched by the officer, who -took eleven dollars in money—two two-dollar bills, one five-dollar -bill, and two one-dollar bills—one rent receipt for thirteen <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_29" id="Page_29">[Pg 29]</a></span>dollars -and fifty cents for August, signed by Herbert Peck & Co., none of -which has been returned to me. The sergeant, in uniform, was behind -the desk, and the roundsman made the entry. I was charged with being -drunk and carrying a knife. My head was bleeding profusely from the -wounds inflicted by the police officers, and the police surgeon at the -station house had to dress them. After this I was placed in a cell. The -next morning I was arraigned in the Magistrates' Court on West 54th -Street. The officer swore that I was drunk and disorderly and carried -a knife. The magistrate held me in $500 bail, and I was bailed by Mr. -Garner. I was not drunk on the occasion in question. I had drunk three, -and positively not more than four, glasses of beer at Mr. McGuire's -house. I did nothing which would justify this conduct on the part of -the police officers. On August 23rd an officer called at my house. He -said he was generally known as "Bootsey," and was sent by the Captain -to obtain a statement from me, which I gave him. He was in citizen's -clothes. He called again on August 24th, and said that Captain Cooney -wanted to see me at the station house. I did not go to see him.</p> - -<p class="right"><span class="smcap">James Joseph Lockett.</span></p> - -<p>Sworn to before me this 28th day of August, 1900.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Stephen B. Brague</span>, Notary Public (125), N. Y. County.</p> - -<hr class="smler" /> - -<p><i>City and County of New York, ss.</i>:</p> - -<p>Lavinia Lockett, being duly sworn, deposes and says:</p> - -<p>That she is the wife of James Joseph Lockett, and resides at 323 West -37th Street, in the Borough of Manhattan. That on August 15th, 1900, -at about eight o'clock in the evening, she with her husband visited -Mr. Thomas H. McGuire, a friend of ours, where we remained until about -11:15 <span class="smaller">P. M.</span> Walking easterly to 8th Avenue, we met four police -officers in uniform on the northwest corner. We had gone about fifty -feet, when the officers ran after us and struck my husband with a -club and said, "You black son of a b——, you have a knife," and when -deponent screamed she was struck in the mouth and chest with a club by -one of the officers. We were taken to the station and locked in cells; -my husband was charged with being drunk and disorderly, and we were -held in bail in the sum of $500. Neither my husband nor myself was -intoxicated, and saw no crowd or<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_30" id="Page_30">[Pg 30]</a></span> any row and no excitement on our way -home until we were assaulted.</p> - -<p class="right"><span class="smcap">Lavinia Lockett.</span></p> - -<p>Sworn to before me this 28th day of August, 1900.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Stephen B. Brague</span>, Notary Public (125), N. Y. County.</p> - -<hr class="smler" /> - -<p><i>City and County of New York, ss.</i>:</p> - -<p>William Hamer, of No. 494 7th Avenue, being duly sworn, deposes and -says:</p> - -<p>I am a musician. I am employed at "The Fair," kept by Mr. Samuels, on -14th Street between 3rd and 4th Avenues. My wife is employed there -also. On August 15th I finished my work about 11:30 <span class="smaller">P. M.</span> I -took the crosstown 14th Street car and changed to the 7th Avenue horse -cars. I had not heard anything of the riot. The car stopped between -36th and 37th Streets, and my wife and I were dragged from the car by a -crowd of men and lads armed with sticks and stones. I ran into a stable -at 37th Street and 7th Avenue, and they beat me in there and left me -for dead. A stone or something hit me in the stomach, and I fell into a -water trough. My wife and I were separated, and she did not find me. I -crawled out of the stable into a lumber yard and lay there in my blood -until three <span class="smaller">A. M.</span> I have been in the doctor's care ever since, -and am out to-day for the first time. My doctor is Dr. Yarnell, of Park -Avenue near 84th Street. When I was pulled out of the car I noticed -a colored man lying unconscious on the ground. There were at least a -dozen policemen standing around. They did nothing, and made no effort -to protect me.</p> - -<p class="right"><span class="smcap">William Hamer.</span></p> - -<p>Sworn to before me this 31st day of August, 1900.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Frank Moss</span>, Notary Public, N. Y. County.</p> - -<hr class="smler" /> - -<p><i>City and County of New York, ss.</i>:</p> - -<p>Mrs. Annie Hamer, being duly sworn, deposes and says that she resides -at 494 7th Avenue; that she is employed as a musician at "The Fair," in -East 14th Street; that on Wednesday, August 15th, 1900, about midnight -thereof, she in company with her husband arrived at 7th Avenue between -36th and 37th Streets on a 7th Avenue car; that when she alighted from -the car she found herself surrounded by a mob, and almost instantly was -struck in<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_31" id="Page_31">[Pg 31]</a></span> the mouth with a brick, thrown by some one whom she does -not know. She became separated from her husband, and did not know what -became of him until three <span class="smaller">A. M.</span> the next morning, when he -came home all covered with blood. Deponent states further that she has -read the affidavit of her husband, hereto attached, and knows of her -own knowledge that the facts therein stated are true. Deponent further -states that she has been informed by her mother that the "captain" -stationed officers at the door of her residence, and told them to "not -let anyone in or out, and if anyone attempted it to shoot them."</p> - -<p class="right"><span class="smcap">Annie Hamer.</span></p> - -<p>Sworn to before me this 6th day of September, 1900.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Geo. P. Hammond, Jr.</span>, Notary Public (164), N. Y. County.</p> - -<hr class="smler" /> - -<p><i>City and County of New York, ss.</i>:</p> - -<p>William Lemoine, residing at 68 West 43rd Street, being duly sworn, -deposes and says that on Wednesday, August 15th, 1900, he started at -7:55 <span class="smaller">P. M.</span> to attend a meeting of Odd Fellows being held at -29th Street between 6th and 7th Avenues, and had reached 7th Avenue -between 35th and 36th Streets, when he met two white men, who said -to him, "You had better not go down that way, you will get mobbed." -I said, "Mobbed! for what?" They said, "Why, they are having a riot -down there." I continued on, however, until I reached 34th and 35th -Streets on 7th Avenue, where I met two white women, who said to me, -"Do you want to get killed? If you don't you had better go on back." -I thereupon went no further in that direction, but turned back up 7th -Avenue, and went as far as 483 7th Avenue, and saw a crowd coming down -7th Avenue from about 41st Street, and another from about 34th Street. -Both of the crowds were composed of boys and young men who were in -the lead shouting and yelling, while in the midst of them were two or -three police officers. The boys would stir up a colored man and begin -yelling, "There he goes! There is one of them!" and the boys would -immediately run after them, and the police follow. I saw them overtake -two colored men, and saw the police take them down 37th Street towards -8th Avenue. While I was standing in front of 483 7th Avenue a friend of -mine, Mrs. Harriet Ann Bruna, who now resides at 152 West 27th Street, -called to me from her window, and told me to come upstairs, which I -did. She then said that I had better go into the hall bedroom and stay -there overnight, as I might get hurt if I stayed outside or attempted -to get<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_32" id="Page_32">[Pg 32]</a></span> home. This was about 8:30 <span class="smaller">P. M.</span> I then went into the -hall bedroom aforementioned, and remained there looking out of the -window for about one hour and a half, during which time the blinds -were closed or turned down; I then undressed and went to bed, and was -in bed about an hour and three quarters, or until about 11:45 <span class="smaller">P. -M.</span>, when I heard a crash at the front door downstairs and heard -some one coming upstairs; when they reached my door they knocked at it -with their clubs, and broke in the central panel of the door, when I -said, "Don't break in the door, gentlemen; I'll open it," which I did. -Four officers in uniform and two men in citizens' clothes came in, and -exclaimed, "Here is the d——d nigger; kill him!" One in citizen's -clothes came over to me (I had fallen on the bed) and, striking me -on the hip with his club, said, "Come, get up out of there, where is -that gun?" I said, "I have no gun; there's my clothes; search them and -the room. I have done nothing; I have been asleep." The officers then -searched the room, my clothes, and myself, and found nothing. The one -in citizen's clothes then said, "He has no gun; we can't do anything." -The women in the house commenced to scream, and the officers then -broke in the door of Mrs. Elizabeth Mitchell, on the second floor, -frightening her so that she has been unable to leave her bed ever -since. I was hipshodden for a couple of days, and I rubbed it with -liniment for a couple of days until the misery got out of it. Deponent -further says that he has resided in San Francisco for the past eight -years, and had just arrived in the city the day before the riot, and -did not create any disturbance at that or any other time; and further, -that he did not fire any shot from any firearm on that evening; and -furthermore, never owned a gun, and never carried one.</p> - -<p class="right"><span class="smcap">William Lemoine.</span></p> - -<p>Sworn to before me this 30th day of August, 1900.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Geo. P. Hammond, Jr.</span>, Notary Public (164), N. Y. County.</p> - -<hr class="smler" /> - -<p><i>City and County of New York, ss.</i>:</p> - -<p>Walter W. Coulter (white), 481 7th Avenue, being duly sworn, deposes -and says that on Wednesday evening, August 15th, 1900, there was quite -a disturbance around his place of business, and at about 11:30 <span class="smaller">P. -M.</span> he saw a number of officers and men in citizens' clothes go -into the houses 481 and 483, and he, thinking they were part of the -crowd of roughs, stepped up to a police officer, who was quite tall and -stout and of reddish complexion, and said to him, "Why do you allow -those rowdies to go up into that<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_33" id="Page_33">[Pg 33]</a></span> house; there is no one except a lot -of respectable women and children in there, and possibly one man." -The police officer replied as follows: "You go on and mind your own -respectability, and you will have enough to do; they just shied a brick -at us." Deponent further states that no brick had been thrown; that, -in fact, they could not get a brick, as he was looking for one a short -while before that to do some repairing with, and could not find one; -that the only apparent reason for their going into the house was the -fact that a large, tall man, whom he can identify if he sees him again, -came along 7th Avenue, and seeing this colored man in the window called -out, "There's a big nigger; get him!" and immediately there was a rush -made for the house. Deponent states further that the police knew there -were none but respectable people in that house, as deponent had gone -to a great deal of trouble to get rid of a lot of dissolute people who -were in the house about a year ago, and in his endeavors to get rid of -them had called upon the police to aid him, so that they were perfectly -cognizant of the facts in the case.</p> - -<p class="right"><span class="smcap">Walter W. Coulter.</span></p> - -<p>Sworn to before me this 31st day of August, 1900.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Geo. P. Hammond, Jr.</span>, Notary Public (164), N. Y. County.</p> - -<hr class="smler" /> - -<p><i>City and County of New York, ss.</i>:</p> - -<p>Mrs. Elizabeth Mitchell, being duly sworn, deposes and says that she -resides at 481 7th Avenue; that on Wednesday evening, August 15th, -1900, about 11:30 <span class="smaller">P. M.</span>, two police officers in citizens' -clothes and one in citizen's dress broke in the door of her apartments -claiming to be looking for "the man that threw the bottle." She -answered and said that "no bottle was thrown," and that it was a shame -for them to break in the door of respectable people; that her sister, -Mrs. Kate Jackson, became frightened at the uproar, and thinking that -the life of her children and herself was in danger, jumped out of the -window with her three-year-old child in her arms, thereby endangering -the life of herself and child, and in consequence is now confined to -her bed with shock, fright, and bruises. That at six <span class="smaller">A. M.</span> the -next morning she saw a colored man and woman assaulted on the corner of -36th Street and 7th Avenue. Also at 52nd Street and 7th Avenue, between -eleven and twelve <span class="smaller">A. M.</span>, she saw a colored man assaulted by -a white man, and when the officer attempted to interfere and arrest -the white man the motormen around the stables refused to allow him -to arrest him. She states further that one<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_34" id="Page_34">[Pg 34]</a></span> of the officers' first -name was "Jim," as she heard him so addressed by the man in citizen's -clothes.</p> - -<p class="right"><span class="smcap">Mrs. Elizabeth Mitchell.</span></p> - -<p>Sworn to before me this 31st day of August, 1900.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Geo. P. Hammond, Jr.</span>, Notary Public (164), N. Y. County.</p> - -<hr class="smler" /> - -<p><i>City and County of New York, ss.</i>:</p> - -<p>Mrs. Kate Jackson, being duly sworn, deposes and says that she resides -at 481 7th Avenue, and that on Wednesday evening, August 15th, 1900, -she heard a great commotion in the hallway and almost immediately a -loud knocking on her door, and loud demands to open the door. She -thought by the sound that the mob that she had heard and seen about -the house was endeavoring to get into her rooms, and do her and her -children bodily harm, and possibly murder. She caught up her youngest -child (three years old) in her arms, and in her frenzy and fright -jumped out the window on to a shed and thence to the yard, the child -still in her arms, receiving bruises during her descent which have -made her lame and unable to walk, and has suffered so from shock that -she is now in bed and unable to leave it, and is under the care of her -physician, Dr. William Hartley, 335 West 34th Street.</p> - -<p class="right"><span class="smcap">Mrs. Katie Jackson.</span></p> - -<p>Sworn to before me this 31st day of August, 1900.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Geo. P. Hammond, Jr.</span>, Notary Public (164), N. Y. County.</p> - -<hr class="smler" /> - -<p><i>City and County of New York, ss.</i>:</p> - -<p>William L. Hall, being duly sworn, deposes and says that he resides -at 202 West 49th Street; that he is employed as an elevator conductor -by R. H. Macy & Co., on West 14th Street; that on August 15th, 1900, -he was on his way to visit a friend at 410 West 36th Street, and had -reached 36th Street and 9th Avenue, when a crowd of young men and -boys, from about sixteen to nineteen years of age, got around him -and commenced yelling, jeering, hooting, and striking him with their -fists, and with sticks, pieces of pipe, and one in particular struck -him in the side with a weapon made of a long piece of wire, with a -hammer head fastened to it. He ran away from the crowd, and succeeded -in reaching a house in 36th Street between 8th and 9th Avenues, and -succeeded in defending himself there for about an hour and a half, and -finally managed to get out and home. Deponent states further that at -the time of the assault, and at<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_35" id="Page_35">[Pg 35]</a></span> the commencement of it, four officers -in full uniform were in the midst of the crowd of rioters, and were -with them while they (the rioters) were attacking the house with -stones, and that at that time, and at no time during the assault by -the rioters, did these officers make any attempt to protect deponent, -or to stop the assault by the rioters, but on the contrary, by reason -of their presence and inaction on their part, they encouraged the said -rioters to greater deeds of violence; that the deponent is a peaceable, -law-abiding citizen and a member of St. Mark's M. E. Church, on West -53rd Street, and that on the said evening he was molesting no one, and -was walking quietly along with Joseph Cæser, of 121 West 46th Street, -and John Hansborough, of 329 West 53rd Street, who also were attacked -by the rioters.</p> - -<p class="right"><span class="smcap">William L. Hall.</span></p> - -<p>Sworn to before me this 1st day of September, 1900.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Geo. P. Hammond, Jr.</span>, Notary Public (164), N. Y. County.</p> - -<hr class="smler" /> - -<p><i>City and County of New York, ss.</i>:</p> - -<p>William E. Johnson, being duly sworn, deposes and says:</p> - -<p>I reside at 332 West 37th Street. On Wednesday, August 15th, 1900, -fearing that there might be trouble over the killing of Officer -Thorpe, I remained in the house all day and did not go out until about -eleven <span class="smaller">P. M.</span>, when I went across the street to get my mail -from 331 West 37th Street, where I have a letter box, because where -I live at present the letter boxes are easily rifled, and this box -is more secure. Upon returning to the house, which I did about five -or ten minutes after leaving it, I found a police officer standing -in the front of the house, ordering the tenants who were sitting on -the front stoop to go inside, and saying that if he found them there -when he came back he would club every one of them that he found there. -The people then jumped up and ran inside, and the officer immediately -followed them, striking at them, and struck one woman across the face. -As the people got inside the vestibule door the said door closed, and -I, thinking that the officer would not go inside, opened the door and -stepped inside, whereupon the officer rushed into the hall, and struck -me a blow on the head, felling me to my knees. I said, "Officer, I have -done nothing; why do you strike me?" The officer said nothing, but -jumped over me, chasing some of the tenants who had not succeeded in -getting upstairs. While he was doing that I went out into the street, -holding my head, which had been cut open by the blow, when the officer<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_36" id="Page_36">[Pg 36]</a></span> -came out of the house and, grabbing me, pushed me into the street and -commenced to club me again. I ran across the street to the tailor shop -of I. Cohn, at 337 West 37th Street, and into the back room of his -place, and fell on the sofa, where the officer, who had followed me in, -renewed the clubbing and dragged me out into the street and to the 37th -Street station house; and on the corner of 9th Avenue and 37th Street -they met an officer who was in citizen's clothes. The said officer drew -his billy from his pocket, and struck me a blow across the neck, and -put his billy back into his pocket. When I reached the station house I -did not answer any questions, and the sergeant who was behind the desk -knew my last name and entered it on the blotter as Albert Johnson, not -knowing my first name. I was put in a cell, and after I was put in a -cell two more were put in with me, and once or twice while I was there -an officer came through, and going to each cell called the occupant to -the door, asked them their names, etc., and would then take his billy -and push it through the bars into their faces. In one case he struck -one man in the face, knocking out two of his front teeth; this man was -sent to the island the next day, and I believe is now there. On the -Tuesday following Acting Captain Cooney called and brought me down to -the station house, and asked me who the officer was that assaulted -me. Deponent then described the officer to him, and after consulting -the blotter he handed me a slip of paper whereon was written the name -"Herman Ohm" saying that was the name of the officer who had assaulted -me. Captain Cooney expressed surprise that any of the officers should -have beaten me, as I was known to a great many of them. The officer -charged me with having a gun, and of giving him a fight in the hallway, -but did not produce the gun and was given until the next day to -produce it, when he produced a revolver and a bread knife of peculiar -shape, claiming that was what I had in my possession at the time of my -arrest. Deponent denied then and now that he had ever had a revolver -and knife in his possession, and that the only thing that was found on -him and taken from him was fifty cents in money and a small penknife. -Notwithstanding the denial of the ownership of the revolver and knife -by the deponent, and also that the officer brought no witnesses as -to his taking the said articles from him, deponent was fined fifteen -dollars, which was paid.</p> - -<p class="right"><span class="smcap">W. E. Johnson.</span></p> - -<p>Sworn to before me this 4th day of September. 1900.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Geo. P. Hammond. Jr.</span>, Notary Public (164), N. Y. County.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_37" id="Page_37">[Pg 37]</a></span></p> - -<hr class="smler" /> - -<p><i>City and County of New York, ss.</i>:</p> - -<p>Edwin H. Broadard, being duly sworn, deposes and says that he resides -at 332 West 37th Street; that he witnessed the action of the officer -mentioned in the above affidavit of W. E. Johnson, and also the -subsequent clubbing of Johnson by the said officer, and that deponent -was one of the tenants who was chased off the stoop by the said -officer; that the assault on the tenants by the said officer was -unwarranted and without justification.</p> - -<p class="right"><span class="smcap">Edwin H. Broadard.</span></p> - -<p>Sworn to before me this 4th day of September, 1900.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Geo. P. Hammond, Jr.</span>, Notary Public (164), N. Y. County.</p> - -<hr class="smler" /> - -<p><i>City and County of New York, ss.</i>:</p> - -<p>Mrs. Rosa Lewis, being duly sworn, deposes and says:</p> - -<p>I reside at 332 West 37th Street. On Wednesday, August 15th, 1900, -about eleven <span class="smaller">P. M.</span>, I in company with my husband and a number -of other tenants were sitting on the front stoop of our home, when an -officer approached and ordered us to "get inside out of that," adding -that if we didn't he'd club us. All of the tenants immediately obeyed -and passed on into the hallway, and I had reached the foot of the -stairs leading up to my rooms when the officer, who had rushed into the -hallway, struck me over the back with his club; I was lame in my back -and suffered pain from it for a number of days. Deponent states further -that the staircase is in the center of the house and about fifteen feet -from the main entrance; that she was using every endeavor to comply -with the command of the officer, which was given in an insulting and -ill-natured manner.</p> - -<p class="right"><span class="smcap">Rosa Lewis.</span></p> - -<p>Sworn to before me this 13th day of September, 1900.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Geo. P. Hammond, Jr.</span>, Notary Public (164), N. Y. County.</p> - -<hr class="smler" /> - -<p><i>City and County of New York, ss.</i>:</p> - -<p>Maria Williams, of No. 206 West 27th Street, and Carrie Wells, of No. -239 West 29th Street, in the Borough of Manhattan, being severally duly -sworn, depose and say:</p> - -<p>On Wednesday, August 15th, 1900, we were sitting on the stoop of No. -239 West 29th Street, talking; we had been sitting there since 9:30 -<span class="smaller">P. M.</span> We had there learned of the assaults on the Negroes in -this section, and heard the noise of the crowds<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_38" id="Page_38">[Pg 38]</a></span> and the stopping of -the cars on 8th Avenue. There was no crowd in the street at this time. -There were white and colored folks sitting on nearly all the stoops, -the same as occurs on any ordinary warm night. About 11:30 several -officers came through the street from 8th Avenue and walked towards -7th Avenue, three on the north side and four on the south side. No -one in the street had been molested by anyone. These officers walked -up the stoops, and without any warning ordered us into our houses, -at the same time striking at us. Mrs. Wells, the mother of deponent -Carrie Wells, was on the stoop one step from the bottom with three of -her children, aged respectively fourteen, thirteen, and twelve years. -An officer who is called "Joe," and whom we know, stepped up to Mrs. -Wells, and said, "Get in there, you black son of a b——," and struck -her viciously across the right hip, when she ran in with her children, -the officers still following, striking at her until he reached the top -step, looked around, and threatened to strike us if we came out again, -and he then went away. Deponent Williams looked out of her window and -saw these officers go through the same procedure wherever colored -folks were sitting. Nothing was said or done to any white people. We -see this officer every day. At about 2:15 in the morning some officers -came through the block and clubbed colored people wherever they saw -them, men as well as women. Deponent Wells lives at home with her -mother, and helps her keep house; deponent Williams keeps house for -herself and husband. Deponent Wells is a member of the Church of the -Transfiguration, at 29th Street and 5th Avenue, where I have attended -for years. Mr. and Mrs. Miller, of West 29th Street, know of us; Mrs. -McGurk, of No. 225 West 29th Street, Mrs. Kloze, of 223 West 29th -Street, all can vouch for our character.</p> - -<p class="right"><span class="smcap">Carrie Wells.</span> <br /> -her<span class="s3"> </span> <br /> -<span class="smcap">Maria</span> x <span class="smcap">Williams</span>.<br /> -mark<span class="s3"> </span></p> - -<p>Sworn to before me this 4th day of September. 1900.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Samuel Marcus</span>, Notary Public. N. Y. County.</p> - -<hr class="smler" /> - -<p><i>City and County of New York, ss.</i>:</p> - -<p>Mrs. Irene Wells, being duly sworn, deposes and says that she resides -at No. 239 West 29th Street; that on Wednesday evening, about nine -o'clock <span class="smaller">P. M.</span>, she visited a sick friend, named Mrs. Twine -(who has since died), at No. 216 West 29th Street, and<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_39" id="Page_39">[Pg 39]</a></span> while there, -and at about eleven o'clock <span class="smaller">P. M.</span>, hearing of the riot, she -rushed out of said 216 West 29th Street to look for her children and -get them safely at home—she having five children, and, motherlike, -was anxious to get them out of danger. That while gathering her -children together she noticed six police officers on each side of the -street, and had succeeded in getting her children up the stoop and -into the hallway of her home, and was on the second step of her stoop -going upstairs, when Police Officer 1065 came along, and, striking -her across the right hip with his club, said, "Get in out of here!" -and made several passes at her, and pursued her up two or three steps -of the stoop, but she rushed on up the stoop, driving her children -before her, and escaped him and his blows. Deponent further says that -she is a widow, and the sole support of her five children, by doing -general housework, ironing, and washing, etc., and has done so for the -past seven years; that she is a thoroughly respectable woman, and is -peaceful and quiet at all times, and deems this assault by the police -officer aforementioned an outrage, and without cause or provocation. -There were three children on the stoop with her.</p> - -<p class="right"><span class="smcap">Irene Wells.</span></p> - -<p>Sworn to before me this 31st day of August, 1900.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Geo. P. Hammond. Jr.</span>, Notary Public (164), N. Y. County.</p> - -<hr class="smler" /> - -<p><i>City and County of New York, ss.</i>:</p> - -<p>William H. Ross, being duly sworn, says:</p> - -<p>I reside at 475 7th Avenue, near 36th Street, New York City. I had -lived a short time at 225 West 32nd Street. I have lived for five years -in New York. I have been a messenger for General Daniel E. Sickles. At -about eleven o'clock on the evening of August 15th deponent was on his -way to his rooms, but was stopped at Zion's flat and advised to come in -and not cross the street, as there was a riot. I went in and went up -two pair of stairs until about four o'clock in the morning, and slept -on the stairs. My hour for going to work that morning was five o'clock, -at the Herald Building, where I was working for Marsell, who attends to -housecleaning and to the building. Another man, whose name I learned -was Hicks, took refuge in the building at the same time. At about half -past four o'clock on the morning of the 16th we heard a great commotion -in the house. Three policemen rushed upstairs; the first one said, "You -d——d black son of a b——, if you move I will shoot you like a dog!"<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_40" id="Page_40">[Pg 40]</a></span> -He then hit me on the head with his club, and cut my head open; the -other one then hit me on the head, and both beat me with their clubs -on the neck, back, shoulders, chest, and ribs until I was bloody and -sore and fell down, when one of the officers poked his pistol in my -face and said, "You black son of a b——, just move or say a word, and -I will shoot you like a cur." They also beat Hicks and broke his nose. -People whom I did not know, looking out of windows, cried out about -the brutality. They then had their fun with us, saying, "You d——d -niggers; get out of here." Then when we would start they would again -grab us, beat us, and threaten to shoot us. I would know one of these -policemen, as I saw him since on 7th Avenue, and also in September at -Broadway and 12th Street. I think that I would know the other fellow. -In taking us to court they swore to the most outrageous lies, without -any reason in fact. They stated we had been on the roof throwing -bottles on the street. I had never been in the house in my life, never -had been in a room and not above the second story, where they gave me -shelter. The policemen told other lies—that they arrested me before, -that he had warned me before on the street, that he had arrested me for -fighting a few days before. The judge asked if they had any witnesses; -they answered "Yes," and he gave them until three o'clock, when we were -discharged. I was never arrested before in my life. Two doctors gave me -certificates of character, which I had in court.</p> - -<p class="right"><span class="smcap">William H. Ross.</span></p> - -<p>Sworn to before me this 4th day of September, 1900.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Stephen B. Brague</span>, Notary Public (125). N. Y. County.</p> - -<hr class="smler" /> - -<p><i>City and County of New York, ss.</i>:</p> - -<p>Robert Myrick, being duly sworn, deposes and says that he resides at -414 West 39th Street, and is employed by Bernard Brennan, saloon keeper -at 49th Street and Broadway; that on Thursday evening, August 16th, at -about eight <span class="smaller">P. M.</span>, he left his work at the said saloon and -walked to 8th Avenue between 47th and 48th Streets; that he entered -a restaurant on that block, and after eating a meal he asked the -proprietor whether there was any trouble downtown to-night. He replied, -"No, it is kind of quiet to-night, but I guess you had better take a -car and ride down, it will be safer." He replied. "I guess that will be -the best way," and then walked out onto the avenue and boarded a car -bound downtown, and had gone as far as 42nd<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_41" id="Page_41">[Pg 41]</a></span> Street when a mob of about -one hundred boys, none of whom apparently were over nineteen years of -age, began to throw stones at the car and yell, "There's a nigger in -the car; let's kill him!" Some woman on the car said, "Come over here, -mister; don't stand there and get killed." I went along the footboard -from the rear of the car, where I had been, and got under the seat, -where the mob could not see me; but the mob continued following the -car and stoned it until I reached 39th Street, where I wanted to get -off, but was advised there by three men (who were the only passengers -that had remained on the car) not to get off. I continued on until -the car reached 38th Street, when the car stopped and the mob caught -up with it. I then got off the east side of the car, and ran over to -the southeast corner of 8th Avenue, to where I saw five men standing, -and going up to one I said, "Officer, will you please see me home?" -He said, "Where do you live?" I told him. He then said, "What are you -doing on the street at this time of night?" I answered, "Going home -from work." He then asked me where I worked. I told him. He then said. -"Have you got a gun or a razor?" I said "I have neither." He then -proceeded to search me, when I remembered having a razor in a case in -my outside coat pocket, and I told the officer and showed him where it -was. He then took the razor out of my pocket, and, striking me across -the back of the neck with his club, said, "You black son of a b——!" -and then struck me several times on the head. I said to him, "I come -over to you for protection, and this is what I get." He then said, -"Shut up!" I was then taken to the 37th Street station house, and while -there I was kicked by the officers in the section room, and by the -doorman, and when I protested I was told to shut up. I was locked in -cell No. 13, and in the morning I was brought to the 54th Street police -court, where the judge turned me loose. While in my cell I got into -conversation with a colored man who is a porter for the N. Y. C. & H. -R. R., and he said that he was dragged from a street car and clubbed by -police officers. Deponent further states that he had the aforementioned -razor in his pocket by reason of the fact that it needed repairing, and -he had taken it to a barber to see if he could fix it, and finding that -he could not fix it he was taking it to his home to lay it away in its -place. Deponent says further that the time of the clubbing was about -8:30 <span class="smaller">P. M.</span></p> - -<p class="right"><span class="smcap">Robert Myrick.</span></p> - -<p>Sworn to before me this 1st day of September, 1900.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Geo. P. Hammond, Jr.</span>, Notary Public (164), N. Y. County.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_42" id="Page_42">[Pg 42]</a></span></p> - -<hr class="smler" /> - -<p><i>City and County of New York, ss.</i>:</p> - -<p>Solomon Russell Wright, being duly sworn, deposes and says:</p> - -<p>I reside at No. 129 West 27th Street; on Thursday, August 16th, 1900, -about 6:30 <span class="smaller">P. M.</span>, I left the house and walked to the corner of 7th -Avenue and 28th Street, where I met a friend of mine, with whom I -stood and chatted for about three quarters of an hour, when I left and -returned down 7th Avenue towards 27th Street, and had got within about -one hundred feet of 27th Street, when I was struck by a missile thrown -by an Italian boy. I naturally turned around and asked him what he had -done that for. I passed on, however, and had got about fifty feet east -of 7th Avenue, on 27th Street, when a police officer ran after me, -and seizing me commenced feeling around my clothes as if in search of -something. I had an ordinary pocket knife in the change pocket of my -coat, and the officer finding it said, "What are you doing with this?" -I answered, "Do you see me doing anything with it?" He then took me -to the 30th Street station house (19th Precinct), and while going up -the steps of the station house I stumbled, and the officer then hit -me on the back of the neck with his club. I was arraigned before the -sergeant, who took my pedigree, and at the close of that proceeding the -officer who had me in charge, and whose name is Kennedy, said to the -sergeant, "What will we do with this feller?" The sergeant replied, -"Kill the black son of a b——!" The said officer then brought me back, -and when we reached a flight of stairs leading down to the cells he -shoved me down the whole flight; when I reached the bottom some other -officers who were down there grabbed me and punched and beat me with -their fists. I was arraigned the next day and charged with carrying a -knife, and I was committed for ninety days. I served part of the time, -when I was released on bail. I was not intoxicated, and had never been -arrested before in my life. I never have and do not stand around the -corners of the neighborhood; and further, I am employed by the Standard -Oil Company as a porter.</p> - -<p class="right"><span class="smcap">Solomon R. Wright.</span></p> - -<p>Sworn to before me this 22nd day of September, 1900.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Geo. P. Hammond, Jr.</span>, Notary Public (164). N. Y. County.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_43" id="Page_43">[Pg 43]</a></span></p> - -<hr class="smler" /> - -<p><i>City and County of New York, ss.</i>:</p> - -<p>Alfred Bradshaw, being duly sworn, deposes and says:</p> - -<p>I reside at No. 210 West 27th Street with my wife and three children. -On August 16th, 1900, I bought a revolver on the Bowery, which I -intended to take home in the evening and leave there, as a protection -for my wife and children. There were numerous riots in the neighborhood -the evening before, and the rioters had broken into houses at all times -during the day and night, and I deemed it necessary for the protection -of my wife and children. I had been working at 96 Greene Street that -day. I am a general housecleaner, and work in all parts of the city. As -I was walking home on 7th Avenue, about four o'clock in the afternoon, -between 14th and 15th Streets, I saw a man run up to a police officer -and say something to him. The officer then came up to me and said, -"You've got a pistol; you give it up. I will arrest you." I handed him -the pistol, and he arrested me. I said as I handed it to him, "I bought -this pistol to protect my family at home. I heard of this rioting, and -I bought this pistol to protect my home." He said, "Why don't you call -to the officers for protection?" I said, "The officers can't protect -my home, because I don't know what time the riot might come in, and -we can't always find an officer on beat. I heard them break into some -houses and beat people unmercifully." I was taken to the 30th Street -station house. While there I saw Solomon Wright, who is at present in -the Penitentiary at Blackwell's Island, a Negro, being clubbed by a -policeman as he was being led from the sergeant's desk into the cell. -He was bleeding from his head, and his eye was discolored. I have been -in the city for twenty years, and have never been arrested before. I -did not show this pistol to anyone after I bought it, and intended to -leave it at the house, as a protection to my family.</p> - -<p class="right">his<span class="s3"> </span> <br /> -<span class="smcap">Alfred</span> x <span class="smcap">Bradshaw</span>.<br /> -mark<span class="s3"> </span></p> - -<p>Sworn to before me this 4th day of September, 1900.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Stephen B. Brague.</span> Notary Public (125), N. Y. County.</p> - -<hr class="smler" /> - -<p><i>City and County of New York, ss.</i>:</p> - -<p>John H. Kellum, being duly sworn, deposes and says:</p> - -<p>I was on a Broadway car on the evening of Wednesday, August 15th, at -about 11:30 <span class="smaller">P. M.</span> I boarded the car at the corner<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_44" id="Page_44">[Pg 44]</a></span> of 46th -Street and Broadway, and had reached a point a little north of 35th -Street, when I heard a mob run after the car and commence throwing -missiles at and into the car. Among other missiles was a little bottle, -which I caught, and with which I kept the rioters at bay. The car got -a short distance ahead of the mob, when it had passed 34th Street, -and I took advantage of that and jumped from the car and ran towards -three policemen in uniform, and two who were in citizens' clothes. One -of them said not to run any further, and one of the men in citizens' -clothes said, "Get on this car, and I'll get on with you." I did so -and rode to 32nd Street, and the said officer got on the rear platform -of the same car. I got off at 32nd Street and was not molested again. -Deponent further says that the officers made no attempt to disperse the -mob, though they were in plain sight. Deponent further says that he has -lived in the 19th Precinct for about eighteen years, and is well known -to a number of the officers of that precinct.</p> - -<p class="right"><span class="smcap">J. H. Kellum.</span></p> - -<p>Sworn to before me this 7th day of September, 1900.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Geo. P. Hammond, Jr.</span>, Notary Public (164), N. Y. County.</p> - -<p>(This was in the 19th, not the 20th Precinct.)</p> - -<hr class="smler" /> - -<p><i>City and County of New York, ss.</i>:</p> - -<p>Samuel Isaiah Johnson, being duly sworn, deposes and says:</p> - -<p>I reside at No. 125 West 27th Street, in the Borough of Manhattan, -and support myself by cleaning carpet, chimney sweeping, and other -jobs of a like nature. I have been employed by a Mr. Webb, an attorney -with an office near Jefferson Market; a Mr. Davis, proprietor of a -fish market there; Mr. Andrew Phillips, 15th Street and 6th Avenue. On -Wednesday. August 15th, 1900, the first night of the riots, I was on -an 8th Avenue car bound south. I had been up to see my brother-in-law, -Joseph W. Brown, of No. 85 West 104th Street. I had my banjo with me. I -left there shortly after nine. He was out. About ten o'clock, at about -41st Street and 8th Avenue, a crowd jumped on the car, grabbed me, -and tried to pull me out of the car. I was under the seat. They took -my banjo, hat, coat, and belt away, and beat me all over the body and -head, so that I was unable to move. The car was at a standstill while -I was being beaten, which lasted from about fifteen to twenty minutes. -Another colored man was being beaten at the same time. After about -twenty minutes of this a man, probably a detective,<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_45" id="Page_45">[Pg 45]</a></span> jumped on the car, -and the crowd allowed the car to proceed. He took me to the corner of -27th Street and 7th Avenue, and asked me whether I could get home, and -he left me. I proceeded to my house unmolested. The next day I went to -the hospital at 15th Street and 5th Avenue, and obtained some liniment -for my bruises. I am fifty-four years of age, small in stature, and -lame.</p> - -<p class="right">his<span class="s5"> </span> <br /> -<span class="smcap">Samuel</span> x <span class="smcap">Isaiah Johnson</span>.<br /> -mark<span class="s5"> </span></p> - -<p>Sworn to before me this 6th day of September, 1900.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Samuel Marcus</span>, Notary Public, N. Y. County.</p> - -<hr class="smler" /> - -<p><i>City and County of New York, ss.</i>:</p> - -<p>Thomas Hughes (white), of No. 646 East 13th Street, New York City, -being duly sworn, deposes and says:</p> - -<p>On August 15th, 1900 (the first day of the outbreak), about 8:45 <span class="smaller">P. -M.</span>, I was in 36th Street between 7th and 8th Avenues. I was on my -way home after having called on Rev. Leighton Williams, at 312 West -54th Street. There were quite a number of persons moving about in the -street, and half a dozen policemen moving about. I noticed a colored -man about five feet seven, smooth-faced, about twenty-eight or thirty -years old, standing in front of a doorway near a grocery store. He -wasn't doing anything, and wasn't talking to anybody. An officer with a -heavy reddish mustache rushed across the street at him and said, "You -black bastard, what are you doing here?" and at the same instant struck -him over the head with his club, felling the Negro to the street. The -Negro bled and lay unconscious. I tried to wipe the blood from him, and -the officer spoke roughly to me and ordered me away. Friends of the -Negro dragged him into the hallway. My journey was down 8th Avenue to -36th Street, and down 7th Avenue to 35th Street, and I saw a number of -police officers strike a number of persons with their clubs. All whom I -saw struck were colored persons, and I noticed that as a peculiar fact. -I was accompanied by William Shea, of 332 East 23rd Street.</p> - -<p class="right"><span class="smcap">Thomas Hughes.</span></p> - -<p>Sworn to before me this 30th day of September, 1900.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Frank Moss</span>, Notary Public, N. Y. County.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_46" id="Page_46">[Pg 46]</a></span></p> - -<hr class="smler" /> - -<p><i>City and County of New York, ss.</i>:</p> - -<p>William Shea, of 332 East 23rd Street, being duly sworn, deposes and -says:</p> - -<p>I work for John P. Kane, foot of East 14th Street. On the first day of -the riot, August 15th, I was with Thomas Hughes. I had been with him to -see the Rev. Mr. Williams, in West 54th Street. We returned through 8th -Avenue and went through 36th Street. In 36th Street, between 7th and -8th Avenues, we saw a colored man standing. An officer rushed across -the street and hit the colored man on the head and felled him to the -sidewalk. The colored man was not doing anything. The officer was a -heavy man with large red mustache. My friend stopped to assist the man, -and the officer ordered him away. Some people from the house close -by pulled the colored man in. He was unconscious. I saw a number of -colored people struck by officers.</p> - -<p class="right"><span class="smcap">William Shea.</span></p> - -<p>Sworn to before me this 30th day of August, 1900.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Frank Moss</span>, Notary Public, N. Y. County.</p> - -<hr class="smler" /> - -<p>Statement of Paul Leitenberger and Alfred E. Borman (white), of 105 -East 22nd Street:</p> - -<p>On August 15th we were on 28th Street, and were going home, walking up -7th Avenue, and at 29th Street a crowd was coming down about ten <span class="smaller">P. -M.</span> We followed the crowd up 35th Street, and it went into the Dorê -(a dive), and yelled, "Give us a coon and we'll lynch him!" They then -went to Corbett's on Broadway. He has a colored man working for him. -Then the police came with their clubs and dispersed the crowd, which -went up Broadway. A cable car was coming downtown, and some one cried, -"There's a nigger; lynch him!" and several white men jumped on the car. -A colored man was standing in the car, and with a cane or umbrella -warded off the blows. The car went on with him; the gripman would not -stop it, though they called on him to stop. Some of the men were thrown -off of the car and nearly run over. There was a Negro on the second -car behind that, and the crowd pulled him off, and the man escaped by -running into the Marlborough Hotel, where he was sheltered. There were -no policemen present at these times, but some policemen appeared and -the mob moved up Broadway to about 41st Street, and tried to get into -the Vendome Hotel. Some got in, and one cried out, "Give us the coon!" -The police coming up, they moved on and went up as far as the Hotel<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_47" id="Page_47">[Pg 47]</a></span> -Cadillac at 43rd Street, and went in to get the colored hall man, and -an officer came up and clubbed right and left. Other officers came and -the crowd scattered. We waited a half hour, and the police kept the -people moving. We walked through 42nd Street to 8th Avenue, and saw -more of the rioters, and several policemen would not allow them to make -any disturbance, and the rioters spread, breaking up. The whole aim of -the rioters was to catch Negroes. We saw Devery the first night. We -didn't see him the second night. He was in command. We observed the -first night that the police generally made no effort to disperse the -crowds, but ran along with them. The only places where they attacked -the crowds were at Corbett's and the Cadillac. The disturbing element -were young fellows, such as frequent "Hell's Kitchen." We talked with -a ringleader at the northeast corner of 28th Street and 8th Avenue, -a few nights after. He said he had been a leader in the riots and -would do it again—that the "niggers" must be treated the same as down -South. At the Cadillac there was an officer who did splendid work in -dispersing the crowd. For a while he was alone, and he clubbed the -crowd indiscriminately; in a little while two other officers came and -helped him, and those three men ejected the mob from the hotel, and -when they were in the street other officers appeared and effectually -dispersed the crowd. This showed what could be done when they wanted -to. They protected the hotel in good shape, also Corbett's, when the -mob tried to get in.</p> - -<p class="right"><span class="smcap">Paul Leitenberger.</span><br /> -<span class="smcap">Alfred E. Borman.</span></p> - -<p>Sworn to before me this 13th day of September, 1900.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Frank Moss</span>, Notary Public, N. Y. County.</p> - -<hr class="smler" /> - -<p>Statement of Frank H. Bertholf (white), 463 West 44th Street:</p> - -<p>On the evening of August 16th, 1900, I saw several Negroes kicked and -cuffed unnecessarily. Not a white man was touched. All happened in five -or ten minutes. Not many Negroes appeared, but when one came in sight -he was pounced upon by the crowd, and the policemen made no effort to -take care of them, and when they got hold of them they treated them -roughly. I saw two Negroes struck by rioters while in the hands of -officers, and the officers made no effort to protect them. I saw an -officer aim a very vicious blow with his club at a colored man; it -seemed it would kill him, but the Negro dodged.</p> - -<p class="right"><span class="smcap">Frank H. Bertholf.</span></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_48" id="Page_48">[Pg 48]</a></span></p> - -<hr class="smler" /> - -<p><i>City and County of New York, ss.</i>:</p> - -<p>Miss Alice Lee, being duly sworn, deposes and says:</p> - -<p>I reside at 433 West 36th Street (in the rear of the 37th Street -station house). On the night of Wednesday, August 15th, 1900, also -Thursday, the 16th, I heard people screaming and groaning, and shouts -of people pleading not to be clubbed any more. I saw one man lying on -the station house floor, apparently almost helpless. One man who was -pleading seemed to be between the main building and the out building -where the cells are located. An officer who was on one of the upper -floors leaned out of the window and threw a bottle down at the said -man, saying, "Kill the black son of a b——!" Deponent further declared -that it was impossible to sleep during both of the aforesaid nights on -account of the heartrending shrieks and groans coming from the station -house; and further, that she saw a number of colored men lying up in a -corner of the station house.</p> - -<p class="right"><span class="smcap">Alice Lee.</span></p> - -<p>Sworn to before me this 20th day of September, 1900.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Geo. P. Hammond, Jr.</span>, Notary Public (164), N. Y. County.</p> - -<hr class="smler" /> - -<p><i>City and County of New York, ss.</i>:</p> - -<p>Cynthia Randolph, being duly sworn, deposes and says:</p> - -<p>I reside at 433 West 36th Street, New York City, Manhattan Borough. -My home is directly in the rear of the 37th Street station house. On -the evening of Wednesday, August 15th, 1900, and the evening of August -16th, 1900, I heard cries and shrieks of people being beaten, coming -from the 37th Street station house—such groans as, "O Lord! O Lord! -don't hit me! don't hit me!" spoken in pleading tones. This continued -all of Wednesday night, with such frequency, and was so heartrending, -as to make it impossible to sleep. It was not quite so bad Thursday -evening. Deponent states further that it is a common thing to hear -coming from the 37th Street station house cries of people, as if they -were being beaten, except since last Labor Day; since which day it has -been exceptionally quiet.</p> - -<p class="right"><span class="smcap">Cynthia Randolph.</span></p> - -<p>Sworn to before me this 15th day of September, 1900.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Geo. P. Hammond. Jr.</span>, Notary Public (164), N. Y. County.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_49" id="Page_49">[Pg 49]</a></span></p> - -<hr class="smler" /> - -<p><i>City and County of New York, ss.</i>:</p> - -<p>Mrs. Florence Randolph, being duly sworn, deposes and says:</p> - -<p>I reside at 117 West 134th Street. On Wednesday, August 15th, 1900, I -resided at 433 West 36th Street. On the said 15th of August I was ill -in bed, and while I lay in bed I heard at different intervals during -the night, and until about three or half past three the next morning, -the screams and shouts as of persons in agony, and cries of "Why are -you hitting me? I haven't done anything!" Deponent states that these -cries and screams came from the 37th Street station house, the rear of -which abuts on the rear of the house in which deponent then resided. -Deponent states further that her husband was unable to reach his home -for four nights on account of the disorder in that neighborhood. -Further, that her husband works at 43rd Street and 5th Avenue.</p> - -<p class="right"><span class="smcap">Florence Randolph.</span></p> - -<p>Sworn to before me this 12th day of September, 1900.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Geo. P. Hammond, Jr.</span>, Notary Public (164), N. Y. County.</p> - -<hr class="smler" /> - -<p><i>City and County of New York, ss.</i>:</p> - -<p>Susie White, being duly sworn, deposes and says:</p> - -<p>I reside at 444 7th Avenue, New York City. On Sunday morning, August -12th, 1900, about six <span class="smaller">A. M.</span>, two officers in full uniform -came upstairs and, pushing the door of my room open, said, "Did not a -man come up here just now?" I answered, "Yes." The officer then said, -"Where is he? Bring him out." I then started to call the man, but -before I got to the room the officer had preceded me, and he called the -man out (his name is Joe Netherland) and took hold of him, and rubbing -his hand over his head said, "Got a scar?" Netherland said, "No. Who -are you looking for—the man that cut the officer?" The officer said, -"Yes. We're going to make it hot for you niggers!" After making a -further examination they found two more men, and after making a close -examination of them they found that they were not the men they wanted. -After threatening to do up all the "niggers" for killing Officer Thorpe -they left.</p> - -<p class="right"><span class="smcap">Susie White.</span></p> - -<p>Sworn to before me this 10th day of September, 1900.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Geo. P. Hammond, Jr.</span>, Notary Public (164), N. Y. County.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_50" id="Page_50">[Pg 50]</a></span></p> - -<hr class="smler" /> - -<p><i>City and County of New York, ss.</i>:</p> - -<p>John Hains, being duly sworn, deposes and says:</p> - -<p>I reside at No. 341 West 36th Street. I am a laborer, and am at present -employed as a longshoreman at Pier 16, North River. On the evening of -August 15th, 1900, I went to bed as usual at 9:30 o'clock. About two -o'clock in the morning I was awakened by somebody beating me on the -back with a club. When I awoke I found six policemen in the room; they -had broken in the door. They asked me for the revolver with which they -said I had been shooting out of the window. I told them I did not have -a revolver. One of the officers said that he had seen me shoot out -of the window. Three officers then began to club me, while the other -three were searching the house. They found an old toy revolver, which -was broken and not loaded, and could not shoot if it had been loaded, -and said that that was the pistol I had used. I denied that, which was -the truth. They dragged me out of the house, and proceeded to take me -to the station house. I was only in my undershirt, being asleep at the -time they broke into the house, and begged them to allow me to put on -my trousers and my shoes. They only sneered at this, and one of the -officers said, "You'll be d——d lucky if you get there alive." Here -another of the officers pulled out a revolver and said, "Let's shoot -the d——d nigger," to which a third officer replied, "We can take the -black son of a b—— to the station house as he is." When I got to the -station house I was bleeding from my head and other parts of my body, -as a result of these clubbings. There were only two other persons in -our apartments that evening—William Seymour, from whom I rent my -apartments, and Walter Gregory. When they saw the officers running -into the house, acting as they did, they ran out of the house, leaving -me asleep. They did not shoot out of the window, and we never kept -any weapons in the house. Mrs. Lucy Jones, who lives next door to us, -saw the officers beat me. She was in the house during all this time, -and saw no firing from our windows. Her affidavit is hereto annexed. -When I arrived at the station house, after the entry had been made on -the blotter, I was placed in a cell. Before this I was struck by one -of the officers in the station house in front of the sergeant's desk, -and in his presence, without any interference on his part. After T was -placed in the cell somebody (I believe the police surgeon) bandaged my -head. The next morning the police loaned me a pair of old trousers, so -that I could be taken to the Police Court. Officer Ohm, one of the<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_51" id="Page_51">[Pg 51]</a></span> -officers who struck me and abused me, as aforesaid, made the charge -against me; he charged me with firing a pistol through the window. I -was brought before the magistrate and he asked me if this was so. I -told him it was not, and endeavored to explain matters to him, but he -would not listen to me and sent me to the Penitentiary for six months. -There were a great many similar cases before him that day, and he was -very impatient. I did not have a lawyer to represent me, and I was -given no opportunity to deny the false charges of the officer. While -I was being taken to the station house one of the officers said to -another officer who was clubbing me, "Club as hard as you can; this is -a d——d hard head." Another said, "I will teach you d——d niggers to -club white people. We will kill half of you." I have the sheet which -was on the bed on the night in question. It is full of blood stains. I -had six stitches put into my head by a surgeon at the building in which -the Magistrates' Court is located on 54th Street. This was before I -was taken to Blackwell's Island. After I had been there ten days I was -released. I do not know the reason why. Sentenced August 16th, released -August 25th, about eight <span class="smaller">A. M.</span> The only one of the officers I -could recognize is Officer Ohm, who made the formal complaint in the -Magistrates' Court. I was almost beaten into insensibility that night, -and all of the officers were in uniform. Last summer I was employed for -the season as a butler by General O. O. Howard, at his summer home in -Burlington, Vermont, and I have a recommendation from him. I am not a -drinking man, and never was arrested before in my life.</p> - -<p class="right"><span class="smcap">John Hains.</span></p> - -<p>Sworn to before me this 28th day of August, 1900.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Geo. P. Hammond, Jr.</span>, Notary Public (164), N. Y. County.</p> - -<hr class="smler" /> - -<p><i>City and County of New York, ss.</i>:</p> - -<p>Walter Gregory, being duly sworn, deposes and says:</p> - -<p>I reside at 107 Prince Street, Brooklyn. On August 15th, 1900, I was -boarding with Mr. Seymour at 341 West 36th Street. John Hains, Mr. -Seymour, and myself were sitting together at our home until about nine -o'clock that evening, when Hains went to bed. Mr. Seymour and I were -up until about one o'clock, when we went to bed. In the early part of -the evening there was a lot of shouting going on in 36th Street, but I -heard no shooting. About two o'clock in the morning we were awakened -by shooting in front of the house. Seymour and I walked to<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_52" id="Page_52">[Pg 52]</a></span> the window -and looked out to see what was the matter. I did not see any colored -people on the street at that time, and the shooting was evidently done -by white people. Just then I heard somebody break open the front door -of the house. There were several people; they were talking in a noisy -manner, but I could not hear what they said. As they reached our door -some one rapped on it, and said, "Open the door." I said, "I can't." -Mr. Seymour and I hurriedly ran to the fire escape undressed. As we -did so we passed Hains, who was fast asleep. I shook him and said, -"A big crowd is coming in the house." I do not think he heard what I -said, and he fell asleep again. Seymour and I went down the fire escape -and into the yard at 339, where we remained until matters had quieted -down a little. I could hear Hains say repeatedly, "Don't kill me!" The -people in the houses were screaming. About three or four o'clock, when -things were quiet again, we went back to our room. The bed in which -Hains slept was all bloody. Mrs. Jones, who lived next door, and whose -affidavit is hereto annexed, then told me what had happened—precisely -the same as in her affidavit hereto annexed. I did not know that the -people who broke into the house were policemen. I thought they were -the rioters. The pistol found in the apartments was an old broken toy -pistol, and could not shoot. We never had a razor or a pistol in the -house. While the shooting was going on Hains was fast asleep, and -there was no shooting from our windows. I am employed at present on -the steamer <i>Shinnecock</i>, of the Montauk Steamboat Company, as second -pantryman. I have never been arrested in my life. Since this riot we -have not lived at 341 West 36th Street, our home having been broken up -by it.</p> - -<p class="right"><span class="smcap">Walter Gregory.</span></p> - -<p>Sworn to before me this 6th day of September, 1900.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Samuel Marcus</span>, Notary Public, N. Y. County.</p> - -<hr class="smler" /> - -<p><i>City and County of New York, ss.</i>:</p> - -<p>William H. Seymour, of 70 Vanderbilt Avenue, Brooklyn, being duly -sworn, deposes and says:</p> - -<p>I am employed at Pier 16, E. R. I resided at 341 West 36th Street, New -York City, from September, 1899, until August 16th, 1900. At no time -during the period above mentioned were there any firearms in the house -other than an old broken revolver which was in two pieces, having no -cartridges and being entirely useless. Deponent further states that he -saw the<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_53" id="Page_53">[Pg 53]</a></span> sheet of bed upon which John Hains was lying and found same -to be stained with blood. This was about 4:30 on the morning of August -16th, 1900.</p> - -<p class="right"><span class="smcap">Wm. H. Seymour.</span></p> - -<p>Sworn to before me this 6th day of September, 1900.</p> - -<hr class="smler" /> - -<p><i>City and County of New York, ss.</i>:</p> - -<p>Lucy A. Jones, being duly sworn, deposes and says:</p> - -<p>I reside at 341 West 36th Street, on the fourth floor front, west -side. John Hains resides on the same floor on the east side. I have -read his affidavit, which is hereto annexed, and so far as it relates -to the occurrences at said address on the evening of August 15th it -is true. I had only returned to the city at six o'clock that evening, -having been in the country for two months. I had been in the house, -looking out of the window occasionally. I saw shooting in the street, -but this was all done by white people. There were no colored people -on the street. This shooting was done mostly by white people living -at 342 West 36th Street, which is a tenement, and is occupied by a -very low class of rowdies, who have constantly abused and insulted -the colored residents of the block. The police officers constantly go -in and out of this house. On the night in question I saw a great many -police officers enter this house and talk with its occupants. They were -shouting and using abusive language, and saying, "Kill every d——d one -of the niggers!" "Set the house afire!" etc., etc. About two o'clock -in the morning I heard somebody at the door of Mr. Seymour's flat next -door, saying, "G— d— you; open this door, or I'll kill every d——d -nigger in the house." Mr. Hains, who was the only one in the house just -then, was asleep, and he did not open the door. They broke the door -open, and I saw them club Hains and accuse him of firing a pistol out -of the window. He denied this. Then three of the officers beat him, -while the other three were searching the house. They did not find any -pistol there, so they came into my apartments, and one of them said to -me, "You G— d— black son of a b——, you know a lot about this d——d -shooting, and if you don't tell me I'll blow the brains out of you." -I told them that they could look through my flat, which they did, but -did not find anything. Then they went back to the Seymour flat, and I -heard one of the officers say, "I've got the revolver; let's kill the -G— d— son of a b——," and began to club him in the head and other -parts of his body<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_54" id="Page_54">[Pg 54]</a></span> unmercifully. He begged them to allow him to put on -his clothes, but the one who had the revolver said, "Shoot the d——d -nigger," and he was led to the station house only in his undershirt. -Another officer said, "You will be glad if you get there alive." At -one time during this fracas I attempted to look into the Seymour flat -to see what was going on, but one of the officers said to me, "You G— -d— black b——, get back where you belong, or I'll club the brains out -of you." After they left I went into the room, and I found the pillows -and sheet on the bed full of blood stains. The people in 342 inspired -the policemen, telling them to "Burn the house!" "Lynch the d——d -niggers!" etc., etc. I am a widow. My daughter, who is about twenty-one -years of age, saw this clubbing, and heard the police use this vile -and abusive language. After they had arrested Hains I looked out of my -window to see how he was being led by the officers. One of the rowdies -in 342 said, "Look at the d——d nigger wench looking out of the -window. Shoot her! Shoot her!"</p> - -<p class="right"><span class="smcap">Lucy A. Jones.</span></p> - -<p>Sworn to before me this 28th day of August, 1900.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Stephen B. Brague</span>, Notary Public (125), N. Y. County.</p> - -<hr class="smler" /> - -<p><i>City and County of New York, ss.</i>:</p> - -<p>Mrs. Louisa Francis, 341 West 36th Street, being duly sworn, deposes -and says:</p> - -<p>I have been housekeeper of the said 341 West 36th Street for the past -eleven years. On Thursday, August 16th, 1900, at two o'clock <span class="smaller">A. -M.</span>, I heard a number of pistol shots in the street near my home, -and heard shouts of "Go into 341, break in the doors, kill the black -sons of b——s"—all the said shouts apparently coming from the -direction of 342 across the street. Almost immediately thereafter the -doors were broken in, the glass in said doors being smashed, and about -seven police officers rushed into the house and commenced shooting and -yelling, "Kill the black sons of b——s!" "Put your heads in there, or -we'll blow them off!" They went to the fourth floor, where John Hains -lived, and dragged him out by the shoulders, his feet dragging, and -in that condition he was dragged out into the street. I washed up the -blood down from the fourth floor down the staircase to and on each and -every landing and including the vestibule. The officers, after staying -some time in the house, and ordering Mrs. Freeman, Mrs. Mason, and Mrs. -Jones to<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_55" id="Page_55">[Pg 55]</a></span> open their doors, and after searching the same, crossed over -the roof to 339 and went through that house.</p> - -<p class="right"><span class="smcap">Mrs. Louisa Francis.</span></p> - -<p>Sworn to before me this 28th day of August, 1900.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Geo. P. Hammond, Jr.</span>, Notary Public (164), N. Y. County.</p> - -<hr class="smler" /> - -<p><i>City and County of New York, ss.</i>:</p> - -<p>Josephine Bullock, being duly sworn, deposes and says:</p> - -<p>I reside at 351 West 36th Street. On Wednesday, August 15th, 1900, -about 9:30 o'clock <span class="smaller">P. M.</span>, I saw a crowd chase a colored man and -beat him, on the corner of 9th Avenue and 36th Street. The said man -succeeded in breaking away from the mob, and ran towards my house. When -he reached the stoop some of the male tenants who were seated on the -stoop told him to come in there, adding that "if they kill one they -might as well kill all of them." All during the evening the rioting -continued, and from the rear of the house I heard screams and groans -coming from the houses facing on 37th Street. About two o'clock <span class="smaller">A. -M.</span> I heard shooting in the street, and in a short while after -I saw two police officers dragging a colored man from 341 West 36th -Street, who had on no clothing except a gauze undershirt. The officers -were clubbing the colored man, and the man was begging them not to club -him, as he had done nothing. The only answer he got was more blows and -a reply from one of the officers as follows: "Shut up, you black son -of a b——, or I'll kill you." Deponent states further that she got no -sleep that night, as the screaming and rioting continued until about -half past two or three <span class="smaller">A. M.</span>, when a violent storm came up, -and the noise subsided somewhat.</p> - -<p class="right">her<span class="s3"> </span> <br /> -<span class="smcap">Josephine</span> x <span class="smcap">Bullock</span>.<br /> -mark<span class="s3"> </span></p> - -<p>Sworn to before me this 10th day of September, 1900.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Geo. P. Hammond, Jr.</span>, Notary Public (164), N. Y. County.</p> - -<hr class="smler" /> - -<p><i>City and County of New York, ss.</i>:</p> - -<p>Mrs. Maggie Zeh, being duly sworn, deposes and says:</p> - -<p>I reside at 351 West 36th Street. On Wednesday, August 15th, 1900, I -saw a colored man trying to get away from the mob, who were beating -him. He tried to get into No. 360, but could not. I then saw the -officers who had been standing on<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_56" id="Page_56">[Pg 56]</a></span> the corner of 9th Avenue and 36th -Street run towards this man and immediately commenced clubbing him. -They clubbed him so unmercifully that the man cried out, "For God's -sake kill me and be done with it; don't beat me in this manner," and -the last I saw of him they were taking him around into 9th Avenue -towards the station house. I also saw a mob coming from 9th Avenue, -with about ten or twelve officers in uniform in the lead. The officers -were shooting up towards the houses on the north side of the street. -Deponent declares that she heard no shooting until the officers came -into sight and commenced to shoot at the houses. Deponent further -states that between eleven or twelve o'clock she saw a colored man -and a woman come from a house on the west side of 9th Avenue. Before -this couple reached 9th Avenue she noticed two policemen, who had been -standing on the southeast corner of 9th Avenue and 36th Street, enter -the saloon on that corner. When the couple had passed the saloon some -men who were in citizens' clothes ran into the saloon, and immediately -came out again with the aforementioned officers, and pointed to the -couple going up the street, and said something to the officers. The -officers then followed the said couple up the street to 8th Avenue, -where I lost sight of them for about two minutes. At the expiration -of that time I looked towards 8th Avenue and I saw the same policemen -turning the corner, having in custody the aforementioned couple, and -when they reached the front of my house I saw that the man was bleeding -and was handcuffed. The woman attempted to speak, when she was ordered -with an oath to "shut up." While the officers who were previously -mentioned as doing the shooting in 36th Street, the officer who was -apparently in command and who wore a cap, and had all the appearance -of either a sergeant or a captain, shouted, "Get your heads in out of -there if you value your lives." Deponent further states that she has -read the affidavit of Josephine Bullock, which affidavit is hereto -attached, and she knows of her own knowledge that matters therein -stated are true.</p> - -<p class="right"><span class="smcap">Mrs. Maggie Zeh.</span></p> - -<p>Sworn to before me this 10th day of September, 1900.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Geo. P. Hammond, Jr.</span>, Notary Public (164), N. Y. County.</p> - -<hr class="smler" /> - -<p><i>City and County of New York, ss.</i>:</p> - -<p>Richard A. Taylor, being duly sworn, deposes and says:</p> - -<p>I reside at 339 West 36th Street; that on Wednesday, August<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_57" id="Page_57">[Pg 57]</a></span> 15th, -1900, I left my home at about 12:15 <span class="smaller">P. M.</span> to go to my work, -as Pullman porter on West Shore R. R.; that when I left my home I -left on the shelf in the closet in the front room of my suite between -sixty and seventy dollars in bills, which money I was saving to pay -my tuition in college next winter; further, my wife did not know that -the money was there; that on my return Saturday, August 18th, 1900, -between five and six <span class="smaller">P. M.</span>, I was told by my wife of a visit -of police officers, about eight in number, each of whom had a revolver -in his hand, and who wanted to know if there was a man in the rooms. -They were told that there was, and were shown Floyd Wallace, whom they -took out with them. They also asked for any firearms, and when told -that there were none demanded that a light be made so that they could -search. While the light was being brought some of the officers went -into the front room and forced open the closet. After they were gone my -wife remembered having left her pocketbook in a small satchel on the -floor. She immediately ran to the front room, and opening the satchel -found that all the money had been taken from her pocketbook except some -silver. Deponent on hearing of this immediately went to look for his -money and found it gone.</p> - -<p class="right"><span class="smcap">Richard A. Taylor.</span></p> - -<p>Sworn to before me this 6th day of September, 1900.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Geo. P. Hammond, Jr.</span>, Notary Public (164), N. Y. County.</p> - -<hr class="smler" /> - -<p><i>City and County of New York, ss.</i>:</p> - -<p>Mrs. Margaret Taylor, being duly sworn, deposes and says:</p> - -<p>I reside at 339 West 36th Street. On Thursday, August 16th, 1900, -about two <span class="smaller">A. M.</span>, while lying on a lounge in the front room of -my house, I was aroused by hearing a shot fired, followed by several -others. I went to the window, when some one in the street shouted with -a curse, "Get your head in there or I'll shoot it off." I withdrew my -head, and then realized that some of the shots had entered my windows. -One imbedded itself in the ceiling, and another passed through a glass -door leading into an inner room, and occupied by a lodger named Floyd -Wallace. I awoke the said Wallace, and told him that some one was -firing into the windows. Shortly after I heard sounds as of a number of -people coming down the stairs from the roof, past my door, and stopping -on the floor below me. In a very short while they returned, and without -asking to be let in broke open my door, and then I saw that they were -police<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_58" id="Page_58">[Pg 58]</a></span> officers in full uniform, six in number. They asked me if I -knew who fired the shots. I said I did not know. They then told me I -lied. Then they asked me if there were any guns in the house, and I -answered no; whereupon I was again told that I lied. I then said, "All -right, go ahead and search for them," which they proceeded to do. They -went from room to room, and broke into a closet in the front room, -which contained my husband's and my own clothes; they then opened a -small satchel in which was my pocketbook. In the said pocketbook I had -six dollars in bills and one dollar and seventy-five cents in silver. -While part of the men were making the search the others seized the -aforesaid Wallace and took him out into the hallway, where deponent -has been told they clubbed the said Wallace on the wrist and face. -When he came in, after the officers left, deponent saw that his face -and cheek were bruised and his wrist swollen. Deponent declares it to -be her belief that the bullets which were shot into her room (one of -which she has) could not have been fired from the street, but must have -come from the houses opposite. Further, that when the officers left -she remembered having left her pocketbook in the aforesaid satchel, -and immediately ran into the front room to see if it was safe; she -found that the six dollars in bills was gone, and declares it to be -her belief that the same was taken by the three officers who were in -the room making the search. Deponent further states that when her -husband returned on the following Saturday she told him of the visit -of the police officers. He then searched in the closet for some money, -amounting to about sixty dollars, which he stated to have left there -without my knowledge, and could not find it. Deponent declares it to -be her belief that this money was also taken by the police officers -aforementioned. Deponent further declares that there were no shots -fired from her apartments, and that no one therein had a firearm of any sort.</p> - -<p class="right"><span class="smcap">Maggie Taylor.</span></p> - -<p>Sworn to before me this 7th day of September, 1900.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Geo. P. Hammond, Jr.</span>, Notary Public (164). N. Y. County.</p> - -<hr class="smler" /> - -<p><i>City and County of New York, ss.</i>:</p> - -<p>Floyd Wallace, being duly sworn, deposes and says:</p> - -<p>I live at 339 West 36th Street. On Thursday, August 16th, 1900, at -about 2:30 <span class="smaller">A. M.</span>, I was awakened by Mrs. Taylor, who said that -they were shooting in the windows. I immediately<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_59" id="Page_59">[Pg 59]</a></span> arose and dressed, -and went into the kitchen. I heard some one screaming, "Don't hit me -like that!" and crying as if being beaten. A short while after I heard -some one coming over the roof from the house next door (No. 341), and -when they reached our door they without any ceremony, and without -asking to be let in, broke in the door. I then saw that they were -police officers in full uniform. They then asked if there was any man -in the house, and was told there was; upon hearing which I stepped to -the kitchen door and was immediately seized upon and taken out into the -hallway by two of the officers. They started downstairs with me, when -one of the officers said, "Wait a minute," and without first telling -me to stop they struck me over the arm and on the wrist. The rest of -the officers then searched through the rooms, and while they were -engaged one of the officers who was with me, without saying a word, -jabbed his stick in my face, just missing my eye, and striking me on -the cheek bone, under the eye, making a painful bruise. I was perfectly -sober, and was sleeping in bed from about 11:30 <span class="smaller">P. M.</span> till -within about five minutes of the time of the visit of the police. I -made no resistance, said nothing to them, and showed by my actions a -willingness to do as they wished me to. After the officers had finished -their search they turned me loose.</p> - -<p class="right"><span class="smcap">Floyd Wallace.</span></p> - -<p>Sworn to before me this 7th day of September, 1900.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Geo. P. Hammond, Jr.</span>, Notary Public (164), N. Y. County.</p> - -<hr class="smler" /> - -<p><i>City and County of New York, ss.</i>:</p> - -<p>Lloyd Lee, being duly sworn, deposes and says:</p> - -<p>I reside at 200 West 37th Street. On Wednesday, August 15th, 1900, -about ten o'clock <span class="smaller">P. M.</span>, I was up about West 41st Street near -7th Avenue, when I saw considerable rioting going on, and immediately -made an attempt to get to my home, going to 8th Avenue, thence to 38th -Street, and thence to 7th Avenue, and had got to within thirty yards -of my home when I heard footsteps in the gravel behind me; I turned -around and saw a man hatless and in citizen's clothes coming after me; -thinking he was a rioter, I jumped aside and asked him what was the -matter. He did not answer, but struck me over the head with his club, -and when I tried to run away he struck me again. Finding I could not -get away, I drew the only weapon I had, namely, a small pocketknife, -and cut at him with it. He then drew his revolver, and shot me in the -mouth and in the arm.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_60" id="Page_60">[Pg 60]</a></span> I then run to any front door and slammed it -shut, and then opened the inner door, and saw no one around, but I saw -a revolver lying on the front steps. I picked it up and took it with -me to the roof. After reaching the roof I sank down and knew nothing -further until the next day, when I found myself in Bellevue Hospital. -I was taken to the 54th Street court and from there remanded to the -Tombs, where I remained until September 25th, 1900, when I was brought -to Part I, where I was discharged.</p> - -<p class="right"><span class="smcap">Lloyd Lee.</span></p> - -<p>Sworn to before me this 1st day of October, 1900.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Geo. P. Hammond, Jr.</span>, Notary Public (164), N. Y. County.</p> - -<p class="center">(The Grand Jury refused to indict Lloyd Lee.)</p> - -<hr class="smler" /> - -<p><i>City and County of New York, ss.</i>:</p> - -<p>Mrs. Nettie Threewitts, being duly sworn, deposes and says that she -resides at No. 200 West 37th Street; that on Wednesday, August 15th, -1900, about half past ten, she was preparing to retire, when her -stepfather, Lloyd Lee, came to her door, and she asked him what was -the matter. He replied, "Nettie, I'm shot!" He then ran to the roof. -Almost immediately after she heard two men come into the hallway, and -one said, "Get your revolver out!" They then came up to the hallway -where I was standing, and I saw that one was an officer in uniform -and one in citizen's clothes, a stout man. I asked them, "What's the -matter?" They said, "Where's that man?" I answered, "I don't know." -They then said, "Who is the man?" I answered, "He's my stepfather." The -man in citizen's clothes then said, "She's got blood on her; take her; -she's a prisoner." I then said, "You are not going to take me without -any clothes on?" He answered, "You don't need any clothes." I was then -brought downstairs and kept on the stoop until the patrol wagon came, -where a number of officers who were standing there called me a "black -b——," and one of them struck me in the head with his fist, another -one deliberately spit in my face, and another took his helmet and -jabbed it into my eye. This officer's number was either No. 3062 or -3064. The latter occurred while I was on my way to the West 54th Street -police court. Among the other remarks which were made to me was, "They -ought to burn up all the nigger ranches;" "Shut up, you're a w——, the -same as the rest of them." I was kept in the station house without any -additional clothes for about two hours, when a<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_61" id="Page_61">[Pg 61]</a></span> woman who lives on 41st -Street gave me an underskirt, which I put on. I was then brought into -the room back of the main room, and from there was taken back into a -cell. I was arraigned in the 54th Street police court and held in $500 -bail for trial. Mr. R. T. Varnum went on my bond.</p> - -<p class="right"><span class="smcap">Nettie Threewitts.</span></p> - -<p>Sworn to before me this 19th day of September, 1900.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Geo. P. Hammond, Jr.</span>, Notary Public (164), N. Y. County.</p> - -<hr class="smler" /> - -<p><i>City and County of New York, ss.</i>:</p> - -<p>William Devan, being duly sworn, deposes and says:</p> - -<p>I reside at 403 West 29th Street. On Wednesday, August 15th, 1900, -about half past ten, while walking on 8th Avenue, between 28th and -29th Streets, I was attacked by a mob and shoved through a glass show -case, cutting my head severely. I managed to get away from the mob -and run towards 8th Avenue and 28th Street, where I was stopped by a -policeman, who grabbed me, and the mob coming up at that moment some of -them shouted, "Arrest him; he has just broken a show case." I replied -that I did not, but that I had been shoved through it. The officer -said, "Shut up, or I'll shove this stick down your throat." He then -took me to the station house in West 37th Street, where I was detained -from 10:30 <span class="smaller">P. M.</span> till four <span class="smaller">A. M.</span> the next day. While -in the station house I saw a man brought in who had nothing on but -an undershirt, and who was bleeding from wounds in his head. I also -saw Lee brought in, and saw the surgeon administer an injection, and -put him into the ambulance, saying, "This fellow is almost gone," and -rushed him off to the hospital. I also saw Miss Lee, the aforementioned -man's daughter, who was brought to the station house with nothing but -her nightgown on, and one of the women in the station house loaned her -a dress to put on.</p> - -<p class="right"><span class="smcap">William Devan.</span></p> - -<p>Sworn to before me this 11th day of September, 1900.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Geo. P. Hammond, Jr.</span>, Notary Public (164), N. Y. County.</p> - -<hr class="smler" /> - -<p><i>City and County of New York, ss.</i>:</p> - -<p>William Hopson, being duly sworn, deposes and says:</p> - -<p>I reside at 229 West 60th Street. I am engaged in the jewelry business, -and am night engineer at the Scarborough Apartment House, 221 West -57th Street. On Sunday, August 26th,<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_62" id="Page_62">[Pg 62]</a></span> 1900, in the afternoon, I was -standing a little way from my door, about ten yards, and saw Officer -4600 walking on 60th Street from 10th to 11th Avenue. After he passed -me he met a platoon of policemen who were coming from 11th Avenue -towards 10th Avenue, and turned back with them. Opposite 225 West -60th Street there were two colored men sitting in front of the door. -Officer 4600 came over and without warning struck one of them. As he -did so the other one ran into the house. The man he was beating also -attempted to run in, but he ran after him striking him on the head with -his fist. (This was James A. Scott, 225 West 60th Street.) He then came -over to me, struck me on the side of the head, and said, "What are -you doing here?" I said, "I am looking on," and attempted to go into -my apartments. He followed me and struck me with his clenched hand on -my head. This was within five feet of my door. Here he was joined by -two other officers, one of whom struck me a blow with his club, full -force on the head and eye, and I was unable to see anything with that -eye for some time after; it is bloodshot still. I held on to the iron -railing in front of 231, to protect myself in that way if I could. As -I did so two more officers came. Three of them were clubbing me, and -4600 was striking me with his fist. The officer who struck me in the -eye with his club was about 6 feet 2 inches tall. They tore my coat and -broke my hat. Some one attempted to hand me my hat as they knocked it -off, but one of the officers knocked it out of the person's hand with -his club, and said, "Never mind the hat." This was as I was being led -to the station house. When we reached No. 227 Officer 4600, who had me -in charge, saw Mr. Myers, the janitor of 227, standing in front of the -door with his wife and several other persons. Mr. Myers is a colored -man. Officer 4600 turned me over to another officer and said, "Take my -prisoner to the station house." The officer replied, "No, don't take -him there." 4600 insisted, and the officer obeyed. When Officer 4600 -went over to Myers he wanted to strike him. Myers is a sick man and -just got out of the hospital. His wife pleaded with the officer not to -strike him, whereupon the officer turned Myers loose and raised his -club to strike his wife. One of the other officers told 4600 not to -strike that woman. Then five or six officers jumped on Myers with their -clubs. There were about ten policemen altogether. 4600 struck him with -his fist. One officer broke his club into pieces on Myers' head. Myers -was taken to Roosevelt Hospital. He told me in court the next day that -as he was passing 60th Street<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_63" id="Page_63">[Pg 63]</a></span> and 10th Avenue they saw a colored man -having his shoes shined. 4600 said to him, "See that black nigger? If -I didn't have you I would drag him out and lay his head open the same -as yours." Myers told me that the doctor at the hospital recognized -him and asked him what was the matter. The officer told Myers to "shut -up," and said to the doctor, "That is my prisoner." I was taken to -the station house, where the officer who brought me there made the -complaint against me for Officer 4600. He told the sergeant I "showed -fight." I was not told what the formal charge against me was. The -sergeant asked me nothing but the usual questions, what my name was, -etc. I was bleeding from my eye. The colored people and the whites on -this street have always been very friendly, and are so even now. There -never was any trouble until these officers raised the disturbance on -that day. Officer 4600 started the thing. Some of the tenants of Nos. -227, 229, and 231 saw this outrageous treatment on the part of the -policemen. We were discharged in court the next day, after 4600 had -made his complaint to the magistrate. I have been in New York for over -eight years, and have never been arrested before in my life. I was -employed in Harris & Flippin's sporting goods store in Richmond, Va., -for two years; I was employed by Oscar Miller, 154 Chambers Street, -coffee and spice dealer, for ten months at his residence in Sing Sing; -I was employed by C. E. Vedder, druggist, at 116th Street and Madison -Avenue, for three years; I was employed by Andrew Lester, of 56th -Street and 8th Avenue, at the Washington Apartments, for ten months; -I was employed by the Goldsoll Diamond Palace, 14th Street, about two -years; W. P. Unger, dealer in essence oils, 18 Cedar Street, for ten -months; Van Boskerck & Wilson, 132 West 21st Street, dressmakers, for -ten months. I am now employed by Mr. Condit, of the firm of Acker, -Merrill & Condit, at the Scarborough Apartment House, 221 West 57th -Street. I have been so employed for about two years. I did nothing -which justified my arrest or this action on the part of the police.</p> - -<p class="right"><span class="smcap">William Hopson.</span></p> - -<p>Sworn to before me this 31st day of August, 1900.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Geo. P. Hammond. Jr.</span>, Notary Public (164), N. Y. County.</p> - -<hr class="smler" /> - -<p><i>City and County of New York, ss.</i>:</p> - -<p>George L. Myers, being duly sworn, deposes and says that he resides -at 227 West 60th Street, Manhattan Borough, New York<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_64" id="Page_64">[Pg 64]</a></span> City; that on -Sunday, August 26th, 1900, at about half past one, he went downstairs, -hearing a noise, and being janitor of No. 225 as well as 227, naturally -he wanted to see everything was all right on the premises. He was -standing in the doorway of No. 227 when the officers approached and -said to him, "What are you doing here?" He answered, "Nothing." One of -the officers then said, "I'll place you under arrest." "All right," -he answered, "take me along." The said officer then struck him with -his fist under the left jaw, and then grabbed him and struck him over -the head with his club, knocking him insensible. When he recovered -consciousness he was on the corner of Amsterdam Avenue and 60th Street, -and in charge of Officer John J. Cleary, who took him to the Roosevelt -Hospital. While on the way there said Officer Cleary continued to -strike deponent with his clinched fist, saying, "There's one for luck," -and "If I had got you first I would not have struck you with my fist. -I would have used my club on your head and killed you." Deponent was -taken to the station house, where he was charged with "interfering with -an officer in the discharge of his duty," and "attempting to rescue -a prisoner." The same charge was made the next morning in the Police -Court, where he was discharged. Deponent declares that he was perfectly -sober, and was downstairs by reason of his being janitor of the -aforementioned houses, and it was his duty to be where he was and at -that time; that he has never been arrested in his life before, and that -he did not attempt to rescue anyone from the custody of an officer, and -that the assault was entirely unjustified and an outrage.</p> - -<p class="right"><span class="smcap">Geo. L. Myers.</span></p> - -<p>Sworn to before me this 5th day of September, 1900.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Geo. P. Hammond, Jr.</span>, Notary Public (164), N. Y. County.</p> - -<hr class="smler" /> - -<p><i>City and County of New York, ss.</i>:</p> - -<p>Mrs. Frances C. Myers, being duly sworn, deposes and says that she is -the wife of George L. Myers, and that she resides at 227 West 60th -Street; that she has read the affidavit of the said George L. Myers, -her husband, and that she knows the facts therein stated to be true -of her own knowledge and belief. Deponent further states that while -her husband was being clubbed she implored and begged the officers not -to strike her husband, as he was a cripple, and had done nothing, but -they continued to strike him, and one of the officers drew off as if -to strike her<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_65" id="Page_65">[Pg 65]</a></span> with his fist, and another as if to strike her with his -billy, but she got out of their way, and when she saw an officer break -his billy over her husband's head she thought they had killed him, and -she then went on upstairs. The officers refused to even allow her to -pick up his hat.</p> - -<p class="right"><span class="smcap">Frances C. Myers.</span></p> - -<p>Sworn to before me this 5th day of September, 1900.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Geo. P. Hammond, Jr.</span>, Notary Public (164), N. Y. County.</p> - -<hr class="smler" /> - -<p><i>City and County of New York, ss.</i>:</p> - -<p>James A. Scott, being duly sworn, deposes and says:</p> - -<p>I reside at 225 West 60th Street. On Sunday afternoon, August 26th, -some officers went down the street towards 11th Avenue. They were -pursuing bad boys who had made a disturbance in the morning. I saw them -from my window, and after they reached 11th Avenue I went down to the -door, and stood there looking towards 11th Avenue, where there was a -crowd. There were only two persons near me, nearly all of the persons -who were on the street having gone down to the avenue; one was a boy -named Smith, and another young man who has moved away. An officer whom -I have since learned is John J. Cleary, came from 10th Avenue towards -me. He spoke to me before I saw him, saying, "Do you live here?" and I -turned to see who spoke to me, and as I turned towards him, before I -could reply he struck me a hard blow on my head with a hard substance, -which dazed me, and he followed it with a blow of his fist in the -mouth, and I went down in a heap. I began to bleed profusely from the -mouth. I was in my doorway when he struck me, so that I fell into my -hall. He did not attempt to arrest me. I went upstairs, and I heard a -woman's voice screaming, "Don't beat my husband." I looked out of the -window and saw the same policeman, Cleary, and other officers whom I -cannot identify, clubbing George L. Myers. The principal clubber was -the said Cleary. I saw him club the said Myers on the head until he -broke his club, and saw him pulling Myers up 60th Street, and punching -him with his fist. Myers was dreadfully beaten and was bleeding badly.</p> - -<p class="right"><span class="smcap">James A. Scott.</span></p> - -<p>Sworn to before me this 24th day of September, 1900.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Frank Moss</span>, Notary Public, N. Y. County.</p> - -<p>(The case of Hopson, Myers, and Scott is substantiated by fully twenty -witnesses.)</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_66" id="Page_66">[Pg 66]</a></span></p> - -<hr class="smler" /> - -<p><i>City and County of New York, ss.</i>:</p> - -<p>John Wolf, of No. 347 West 37th Street, being duly sworn, deposes and -says:</p> - -<p>On Sunday, September 30, I was visiting a female friend, and two -officers came in with a woman I had known, and who claimed to be my -wife but was not. The officers ordered me to leave the house, and I -did so. I asked the officers, "Why?" and one of them said, "If I catch -you here again I will lock you up." I never had any experience in -court or in such matters before, and I went to the station house for -advice. I went to the sergeant at the desk, and told him that I was -in trouble, and without experience, and I wanted to be advised. He -said, "What is the matter with you?" I said, "Can a woman that I have -lived with have me arrested because I don't want to live with her any -more?" He answered, "What are you talking about? You get out of here!" -I was surprised, and didn't move quickly enough to suit him, and he -ordered an officer to arrest me. The officer stepped up to me in front -of the desk, pulled a billy from his pocket, and suddenly struck me a -hard blow on my right jaw, which broke it and caused my chin to fall -down. The officer hurried me back to a cell. I suffered terrible agony -and walked up and down my cell all night calling for relief. I paid -thirty-five cents to send out a message to Mr. Young, who was not at -home. His son came, but was not allowed to see me. I had no attention -at all, and in the morning was arraigned in court. The officer was on -the bridge close to the judge; I was down on the floor. I couldn't hear -what charge he made or what he said. My face was swelled and mouth -almost closed, and I could not make any statement. The justice fined -me three dollars on the officer's statement, and the police attendants -hustled me along. I had no money to pay my fine, and was sent back -to the court prison. I was in an awful condition. I lay down on some -boards, but couldn't stay still. I moaned, and cried for help, but -could not get anyone to notice my case. The night man who came on duty -on Monday night was a humane man, and asked what was my trouble, and I -told him as well as I could. He rang for an ambulance, and I was taken -to Bellevue Hospital. I reached there 9:30 <span class="smaller">P. M.</span>, Monday, and -was put to bed, and remained there till four <span class="smaller">P. M.</span>, Wednesday. -I was unable to take nourishment while there. When I was discharged I -went to the station house for my personal effects, and the officer then -in charge asked me my trouble (for my head was swathed in bandages), -and I told him, and he caused me to remain and<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_67" id="Page_67">[Pg 67]</a></span> identify the officer -who hit me. He scolded the officer, who answered nothing, and he sent -me to Police Headquarters to Inspector Thompson with a note, and ever -since that time they have been investigating my case, and I have gone -back and forth a good many times. Inspector Thompson, in my hearing, -complained bitterly of the ruffianly conduct of the officers in the -20th Precinct. He told of a case where one had beaten a colored woman -eighty-one years of age, and was afterwards found helplessly drunk in -a saloon; he said they were bringing disgrace on the police force. He -seemed to try to get the evidence in my case all right, but the trouble -is that six policemen and the sergeant swore that they were in the -room when I was arrested and that they did not see any blow struck, -but they could not account for my broken jaw. This perjury was awful. -I am feeling very badly—have just now come from the hospital. I go -there every day for treatment. My jaw is still loose, and will not hold -in position without the bandages that almost cover my face and head. -The doctor at the hospital says that the blow must have been a very -hard one, for the bone is crushed. I am poor, and cannot work now. I -suffered also in the riot on the 15th of August. I was going to my -home, which was then at 245 West 32nd Street, and was pulled off an -8th Avenue car by the mob, and was pelted with stones and beaten with -sticks. At first the police who were near by did not interfere, but -after I was severely hurt they came over, and as I was down on my hands -and knees, trying to get up, one of the officers struck me three blows -on my body with his club, and ordered me to get up and get out. I was -then quite near my home, and I ran over there, and was pulled in by my -friends. The mob and the police chased me. The police hurt me more than -the rioters. I had a friend with me, and the police clubbed him also. -He ran into my house with me, and stayed there. When the policemen -ordered me to get out I was surrounded by the mob that was beating me, -and they made no effort to interfere with them. I have always been a -hard-working man, and was never before arrested.</p> - -<p class="right"><span class="smcap">John Wolf.</span></p> - -<p>Sworn to before me this 11th day of October, 1900.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Frank Moss</span>, Notary Public, N. Y. County.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_68" id="Page_68">[Pg 68]</a></span></p> - -<hr class="smler" /> - -<p><i>City and County of New York, ss.</i>:</p> - -<p>William J. Elliott, being duly sworn, says:</p> - -<p>My name is William J. Elliott. I reside at 209 East 59th Street. -At the time of the riot, on August 15th, I lived at 327 West 35th -Street. I moved from that side of the town right at once on account -of the riot. I am twenty-six years of age and weigh about 130 pounds, -and am employed at the Hotel Imperial. I have been there nearly two -years. I finished my grammar school education in 1887. I entered the -Florida State Normal College in 1894; I was there for two sessions, -from '94 to '95. I left there and entered into a drug firm by the name -of Martinez & Co., Jacksonville, Florida, as an apprentice to study -pharmacy, and in less than a year my advancement was so good I was made -a prescriptionist. I then came to New York and entered a drug firm by -the name of C. K. Harris Beach Pharmacy at Atlantic City, N. J. I was -a trustworthy man there, generally useful; during one fall had entire -charge of one of two of Mr. Harris' drug stores in Atlantic City. Mr. -Harris sold out, and after that I sought other work, and I came here -to New York City. My intention has been to accumulate enough money to -take a pharmaceutical course. On the night of August 14th there came a -colored man to the Hotel Imperial and informed the front door man that -there were riots in the street and that there was no way of getting -home. This was between nine and ten o'clock in the evening. About 12:15 -I was off duty, and left the hotel with John Chism, the front door -man; we went out to investigate and see if the boys could get home. We -had no sooner got to 6th Avenue and 31st Street than a fierce mob came -chasing down the street and in hot pursuit of a colored man, yelling, -"Kill the nigger! Lynch him!" We then ran towards Broadway, and were -met there by Mr. Murphy, a man who keeps a saloon at 31st Street and -6th Avenue. He advised us to go at once back to the hotel and to tell -the chief, Mr. Roberts, to keep all of his men in the hotel that night -or they would get killed. We went back, and I delivered the message to -Chief Roberts, and he advised and told all the men to stay in. Chism, -Travers, and myself came out to the front door again, and saw a Negro -running for his life by the Hotel Imperial through 32nd Street towards -5th Avenue, with a mad crowd behind him. Then we were made to come into -the hotel by the chief, as the hotel people were afraid that the mob -might attack the house. I remained in the hotel all night. Mr. Chism -and I tried to get a closed cab to drive three of us home,<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_69" id="Page_69">[Pg 69]</a></span> but the -cabman said he would not drive us home for $500. This was the night -of the riot in which so many were injured. At five o'clock the next -morning I left the Hotel Imperial to go home with Leon Vonce. I walked -as far as 36th Street and 8th Avenue with him, as I intended to go -to his home with him, as he was very anxious about his wife; he was -afraid she might have been attacked. When we got to the corner of 36th -Street and 8th Avenue I saw a big white man jump on one of two colored -boys, whom I know to be hotel boys going to their work. I got a little -uneasy at the sights I saw, and I saw some blood on the sidewalk, and -Leon Vonce said to me, "You had better turn around and go home," and I -did, and went to bed. At half past eleven I awoke and dressed myself -and got out of the house by a quarter to twelve noon, and got as far -as Rocky's drug store, corner 34th Street and 8th Avenue. A white boy -standing on the corner said to me, "You had better go away from around -here, or you will get killed." I then noticed groups of boys and men -running from 34th Street down 8th Avenue; they were right across the -street from me, and at sight of them I became afraid that they would -attack me and I ran home. I had, however, to get to my work, as I knew -the hotel people needed me, and I was afraid that some of the other men -would not be able to get back to the hotel; so after a little while I -made another attempt to go to the hotel. I went out of the house. I was -then addressed by a white man, who seemed to be much of a gentleman. He -says (this was when I reached 8th Avenue), "For God's sake, boy, you -had better go away from here. Go ahead, jump on that car; they just -near killed a colored man across the street." Then as he said that I -heard the crowd yell, "There's a nigger! there's a nigger! Catch him!" -Luckily for me, I jumped on a car and there was a colored boy on the -corner by Comford Brothers' saloon. The mob saw him and ran after him; -they caught the colored boy and the mob grabbed and gathered around -him. They were rough-looking fellows, and I could not see what they -did to the colored boy, for he was in the center of this mob. The car -I jumped on was a green car and went across 9th Avenue on 34th Street. -I jumped off at 9th Avenue, and just as I left the car there were four -big white fellows said, "There's a d——d nigger!" and they started -at me, and I ran home as hard as I could, and when I reached home I -was all out of breath. When I got home the folks at home asked me if I -had anything to protect myself. I told them no, I had nothing; I never -had any use for such things.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_70" id="Page_70">[Pg 70]</a></span> There was a colored gentleman stopping -there, Mr. Miles. He said it was very dangerous for me to go out, but -if I intended going out at all he had a little gun upstairs, which -probably would be some protection from the mob. I thanked him very -much, and took the gun, a little .22 caliber revolver. I still felt it -necessary for me to go back to the hotel, and I thought I would get -back by going another way, and for an hour and a half I stood on my -stoop and in the house at times waiting for an opportunity to get by -the crowd on 8th Avenue and elsewhere; this was about half past two -or quarter to three in the afternoon. I started and went west towards -9th Avenue, thinking I could take a car going north to 42nd Street, -and then across 42nd Street and down Broadway to the Hotel Imperial -at 32nd Street and Broadway. Just as I got to 35th Street and turned -the corner on 9th Avenue there was a mob of three or four hundred men -and boys just below me coming up 9th Avenue, screaming and hollering -and following a car and yelling, "Take the nigger off the car!" "Catch -the nigger!" and "Kill the nigger!" and I turned then and I ran up 9th -Avenue as hard as I could from the mob, and I ran into a pawnbroker's -shop, Mr. Weaver's pawnshop. I stood behind the closed doors, and -through the small openings or blinds that the pawnbrokers have over -their doors I could see that part of the big crowd that stood in front -of the pawnbroker's shop, many of whom were lined up on the sidewalk -across the street. I could also see a policeman trying to disperse the -men with his club. He was hitting with his club right and left to clear -the sidewalk. I saw three guns hanging in the pawnbroker's window, and -I said to the pawnbroker, "Let me see those guns there." I had not any -intention of buying the guns, and did not buy them, but I thought it -would be a bluff to make the crowd think I had something. I told the -pawnbroker's clerk I did not want a gun at that time, I would come -back. While I was pricing the guns a great big white fellow opened the -door, put his head in, and looked suspiciously around the room. He -gave me one of those staring looks, and then shut the door. Then Mr. -Weaver, the owner of the pawnshop, said, "Don't you go out there; they -are waiting out there for you; they will beat you." After staying there -for over half an hour, listening to the hollering outside of "Kill the -nigger!" "Lynch the nigger!" and the crowd running about the street -chasing other negroes, a great many of whom lived in that locality, I -asked the clerk if I could go upstairs and hide, as I was afraid they -might come in after me; but he said, "No one dasen't come in here." -Shortly<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_71" id="Page_71">[Pg 71]</a></span> after this conversation I asked this clerk if it was safe to -go out. He said yes, the crowd was chased down the Avenue. I also asked -Mr. Weaver if it was safe to go out now. He said he thought everything -was over now. I went to the door and peeped out, and I only saw a few -people in groups and four boys standing right at the pawnbroker's door -a little to the left of me. I called to one of these white boys, and -asked him if it was safe for me to go out. He asked me where did I want -to go. I told his as far as 42nd Street. He said, "Go to one of those -cops and he will take you up." I saw some cops at 36th Street corner. -I started toward the cops to ask them to take me up to 42nd Street, -but I had not gone half a dozen steps towards where the cops were when -a man in citizen's clothes grabbed me. I learned afterwards he was an -officer, and he asked me where I was going. I told him I was trying -to get to my work. He asked me what I was doing in a pawnbroker's -shop. Before I could explain he said I had bought a gun, and commenced -to search me. At that time there were four policemen around me. The -little .22 caliber gun he found and took from my pocket. I offered -no resistance, and only asked him for protection from the mob, which -commenced to gather again, and were now yelling, "Kill the nigger!" -"Lynch the nigger!" This mob came up close behind me with sticks and -stones. One of the officers knocked on the sidewalk with his club, and -there were about half a dozen more officers ran to us to keep the mob -off me. The mob was kept off me, and the officer in citizen's clothes -and a policeman in uniform took hold of each of my shoulders and four -policemen followed behind me. The mob went along too, yelling and -screaming, "Kill the nigger!" "Lynch the nigger!" We went west on 37th -Street towards the 37th Street station, which is between 9th and 10th -Avenues, when we turned into 37th Street. Then the two officers in -charge of me and two more behind me took me to the 37th Street station -house. Up to this time I had not received a blow, and was not injured -in any way. They stood me before a man who sat behind a desk in the -station house. There were lots of people there. Some of the men were in -citizens' clothes. The man behind the desk said to the officer who had -me in charge, "What is the charge against this man?" and the officer -in citizen's clothes said, "Carrying a concealed weapon he bought out -of a pawnshop." I said, "I did not buy any weapon there," and the man -behind the desk said, "Don't dictate to us about what you did not do," -and then I started to tell him about my reputation and not being a -rioter,<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_72" id="Page_72">[Pg 72]</a></span> and that I was only trying to get to my work. He said, "We -have got no time to look up your reputation. Lock him up." I was taken -by the jailer who is in the station house, and he said, "Come on," and -took hold of me. There were two doors leading from the office into the -muster room, and I went to get through the left-hand door. Right beside -the door in the station house was a policeman leaning against the -door. As I passed him he threw out his foot and tripped me. I stumbled -but did not fall. I did not see the jailer; he let go of my coat he -had hold of. I looked around at the man who tripped me. As I looked -around another policeman struck me on the jaw with his fist; then -another struck me in the back of the head with his club, and all the -policemen in the muster room jumped up and jumped on me, yelling, "Kill -him!" "Kill the nigger!" I still stood up and received many punches. -I begged for mercy, and did not weaken until an officer struck me in -the temple with his billy, and everything was dark around me. I fell -down, and I could still feel them kicking and beating me about. This -time the man behind the desk, who I believe is Captain Cooney, rushed -in and said, "Don't kill that man in here. The reporters are out here, -and there is going to be a charge made against you, and if another man -touches a prisoner in here I will take a hand in it myself;" and he -says, "Lock that man up." At that time I held my hands above my head -and was running around trying to find the doorway to the cells. I was -then taken and locked up. I am still sick and ill from the blows that -I received, and my right eye is affected. It quivers and is bloodshot, -and the right part of my head and temple is sore. I stayed in the -police station all night, and sent a telegram to the hotel people at -the Imperial, and the manager sent a detective over to get me out, -but the detective was afraid to take me out. The next morning I was -arraigned before Magistrate Cornell for carrying a concealed weapon. -Magistrate Cornell picked up the pistol and said, "Is this your gun?" -and laughed, and said that a man with a bad reputation would carry -no such gun as that; but he said, "We will have to charge you three -dollars for carrying a concealed weapon." I paid the fine and went -straight to Travers' house, where my head was bathed in hot water and -alcohol, and he rubbed my side and back. I remained there in bed all -day. I was unable to work for two days, and then I went back. Since I -went back Captain Cooney has sent for me twice, but I have been afraid -to go back there. I can bring more evidence to show that after I came -out of the police station my head was swollen<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_73" id="Page_73">[Pg 73]</a></span> half its size again, -and I could hardly open my mouth, and for two days I had difficulty in -eating. I cannot open my mouth right wide now.</p> - -<p class="right"><span class="smcap">William J. Elliott.</span></p> - -<p>Sworn to before me this 24th day of August, 1900.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Herbert Parsons</span>, Notary Public, N. Y. County.</p> - -<hr class="smler" /> - -<p>(On the hearing before Commissioner York three newspaper reporters -corroborated Elliott, but a host of policemen contradicted him. Elliott -and his witnesses were badgered by Mr. York, and the policemen were led -and protected. Counsel was not permitted to take part.)</p> - -<hr class="smler" /> - -<p><i>City and County of New York, ss.</i>:</p> - -<p>My name is Harry Reed. I reside at 346 West 41st Street, in the Borough -of Manhattan, City of New York. On August 15th, 1900, I was over in -Brooklyn and was coming home with four companions. About half-past -twelve I reached the corner of 34th Street and 8th Avenue. We five boys -were sitting on the seat of an open 8th Avenue car. When we got at the -corner of 37th Street and 8th Avenue we saw a mob, and the mob called -out, "There's some niggers; lynch them!" and they made a rush for the -car, and I jumped out. Then I ran up to the corner of 38th Street, -where there were four policemen. Of these four policemen three were -standing on the corner, and one ran into the street to stop me. When he -saw me coming I was running hard, fast as I could. When I reached this -policeman in the street, he hit me over the head with his club. He hit -me twice over the head, and I saw the other three policemen coming, and -I fell down. I thought if I fell down the others would not attack me, -but they did; they hit me over the legs and on my arm, when I raised -it up to protect my head, and they hit me in the back. The two cops -started to take me to the police station, but when they saw a patrol -wagon come around the corner of 38th Street into 8th Avenue they called -the patrol wagon, and both went with me in the patrol wagon to the -station house, where I stayed till about four o'clock in the morning. -There was no charge made against me in the station house. After my head -was bound up, and at about four o'clock in the morning, a man dressed -in citizen's clothes said, "Two at a time can go when they want to; -things are quieted down somewhat." I asked him if anybody was going -with us, and they<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_74" id="Page_74">[Pg 74]</a></span> said, "No, go by yourself." I went directly home, -where I stayed and went to bed. I got up at about half-past eight and -went to the Roosevelt Hospital the next morning. They told me at the -station house to go to the hospital. I have been up to the Roosevelt -Hospital three times, on the 16th, 17th, and 18th. I don't think I will -go any more, but still I have to wear a bandage and dress my head. The -scar that I have got on my head is about two inches long, and I was -also hit and a bump was raised on the back of my head, but the skin is -not broken. I bled a great deal from the wound on my head; my shirt, -collar, and tie were all blood-spotted. I am about fifteen years old; -one of my companions, who is about twenty-four years old, was knocked -down, kicked in the face, and thrown down a cellar by a mob. He is my -father's son-in-law; his name is Joe Walker, and he resides at 346 -West 41st Street. My other companions did not get hurt at all. One of -them started to jump from the car, but a policeman told him to get -back, and he stayed on the car, and the mob left him there because they -were chasing me and the other fellow. This man was about nineteen or -twenty years old. Of my other companions, one was a white boy about -nineteen years old, and the mob did not touch him, and he stayed on -the car. The other colored boy, who is about fifteen years old, is -light-complexioned in color, and the mob did not touch him; he stayed -on the cars also. We were in the third seat from the front; we were all -sitting on the same seat. I was on the right hand and outside coming -up, and when I saw the mob coming along the street from the right I -clambered past the other fellows and jumped over the rail on the left, -and was the first fellow out. I ran uptown towards 38th Street, where -I saw these cops. I wanted to get protection, but instead the cops hit -me, as I have told. I did not resist arrest, and I did not struggle to -get away from the cops. I only wanted to get away from the mob. The -cops stopped me, and did not catch hold of me until I had got down and -the other cop had hit me, and one of them caught hold of me to make me -stand up. I did not even try to run away after I had been hit. I was -afraid to run, because I knew if I did they would hit me again.</p> - -<p class="right"><span class="smcap">Harry Reed.</span></p> - -<p>Sworn to before me this 22nd day of August, 1900.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">John C. Barr</span>, Notary Public, Kings County. Certificate filed -in N. Y. County.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_75" id="Page_75">[Pg 75]</a></span></p> - -<hr class="smler" /> - -<p><i>City and County of New York, ss.</i>:</p> - -<p>My name is Jesse Payne. I reside at 255 West 93rd Street. I work there -as a waiter in a boarding house. On the evening of August 15th I was -sent down to accompany a small boy, by the name of Allan Atkins, to his -home, 223 West 18th Street. He took an 8th Avenue car at 93rd Street, -and I rode alongside the car until I got to 59th Street. I told him I -would ride on, and I rode about a block in front of the car. We went -down this way until we approached 34th Street. Around the corner of -34th Street and 8th Avenue I saw a crowd standing. It stretched all -over the street and sidewalk. I thought that some one was hurt, and -that was the reason the crowd had collected, but when I got into the -crowd they did not seem to be standing around no one, and I did not -know what was the matter until I passed 34th Street, and was about -half way to 33rd Street. I was still on the west side of the car track -riding on the wheel, and about half a block in front of the car in -which the boy was, and about half a block behind another car, trying -to follow the pathway it made in the street. When I got to the middle -of the block a policeman ran out from the sidewalk from the west and -raised his club and hit me across the mouth, saying, "What the hell -are you riding here for?" This blow split my lip and broke off two of -my front teeth; it also knocked me off the wheel, but I scrambled up -and ran between the east side of 8th Avenue, dragging my wheel with -me, and away from the policeman. The policeman followed right upon me, -clubbing me, and the whole crowd was after me. I tried to get into a -store, and they shoved me back, and they would not let me in. While I -was going from where I was knocked off my wheel to the east side of the -street a policeman who struck me kept on clubbing me. The first blow -he gave me knocked me kind of foolish, but I hung on to my wheel. When -I got to the curb I fell, because I missed the step. After I got up -another policeman came up to me and said, "What the hell are you doing -here with that wheel?" I says, "I ain't done nothing to anybody, just -going on a message to take a boy home;" and he grabbed the wheel and -hit me over the hand with his club. That made me let go the wheel. It -was taken away from me and I have not seen it since. Then I ran away -about four doors from 8th Avenue, and a third officer told me to stop -and sit down, "If you don't they will kill you;" and he stood there -and protected me until he sent another officer for a patrol wagon and -took me to the station house, and I was there until<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_76" id="Page_76">[Pg 76]</a></span> four o'clock in -the morning. I have been employed by Mrs. McFarland, at 255 West 93rd -Street for about three months; before that with Annie Sterler, of 44 -West 35th Street—this is a boarding house, and I was a waiter there -for two years; with Mrs. Gillies, of 18 West 9th Street, two and a -half years. I know Rev. Mr. Franklin, of Zion Church, corner 10th and -Bleecker Streets.</p> - -<p class="right">his<span class="s2"> </span> <br /> -<span class="smcap">Jesse</span> x <span class="smcap">Payne</span>.<br /> -mark<span class="s2"> </span></p> - -<p>Sworn to before me this 22nd day of August, 1900.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Samuel L. Wolff</span>, Notary Public (77), N. Y. County.</p> - -<hr class="smler" /> - -<p><i>City and County of New York, ss.</i>:</p> - -<p>My name is John B. Mallory. I reside at 206 West 62nd Street. While -coming home from the engineers' lectures my friend Gordon Jones and -myself came up to 7th Avenue through 29th Street where the colored -Engineers' Hall is. We turned into 39th Street and went west towards -8th Avenue. We saw a crowd of white men and boys coming around the -corner towards us. Before the gang reached us a policeman said to my -friend and myself, "Get out of here," and began clubbing me and my -friend; he struck my friend first, and my friend ran towards Broadway. -Then after being struck four or five times, and as soon as I could, I -ran up on a stoop. The policeman did not have a hold of me, but began -striking me, and kept up with me. When I got on top of the stoop he -ran after me, and caught hold of me and shoved me down. He said again, -"Get out of here." It made me fall down the stairs, and I was on my -hands and knees on the walk. Then the policeman left me at the mercy -of the mob, and he went across the street where he was at first. The -mob began punching me, hitting me with sticks, kicking and hitting me -with their fists, and split my lip open, cut my nose, and bruised my -forehead. Then I got up and put my hands on my face and head, and stood -up against the railing by the stoop of the house where I was shoved -down. Then another policeman came to me and said to me, "Have you sense -enough to go home?" I said "Yes." I got on an 8th Avenue car, in which -he got on, and began going uptown about fifteen or twenty feet, when -another policeman came up and got on the car from the left-hand side, -and shoved me out towards the right-hand side, where the mob was. -He said, "Get out of here."<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_77" id="Page_77">[Pg 77]</a></span> As I was pushed off a man at the side -struck at me, but I dodged him and jumped on the car again. The car -was moving when the policeman shoved me off of it. The policeman who -protected me made the motorman stop the car for me to get on, and I -got on the front of the car again. The policeman who protected me said -to the policeman who shoved me off, "Get off, and let him alone." He -got off then. The policeman who protected me stood on the car until I -got up one block out of the mob, and then he got off. I rode on this -8th Avenue car up to 59th Street, and I stood between two men. One of -them offered me his handkerchief to wipe the blood off my face, and -when I got to 59th Street they advised me to go to Roosevelt Hospital, -and I asked one of them to get a transfer for me. He did this, and I -went to Roosevelt Hospital, where I had three stitches put in my lip. -I am still going to the hospital, and am under treatment; my back and -both shoulders are injured, and I am generally bruised all over. I -have no bad habits. I do not smoke or drink, and I am a student at the -International Correspondence School, Scranton, Pa. I have been through -the public schools, and I am studying to be a mechanical engineer. I -also attend lectures at the Colored Engineers' Association, on 29th -Street between 6th and 7th Avenues. I know Mrs. S. E. Lodewick, of 800 -Lexington Avenue; C. W. Phillips, 11 Broadway; L. P. Sawyer, Mrs. J. F. -Aitken, Mrs. Mary Baker, Mrs. E. R. Clark, and Mrs. A. Arnold, all of -153 Madison Avenue. I have known these people for about eight years, -and they can all testify to my good character.</p> - -<p class="right"><span class="smcap">John B. Mallory.</span></p> - -<p>Sworn to before me this 22nd day of August, 1900.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Samuel L. Wolff</span>, Notary Public (77), N. Y. County.</p> - -<hr class="smler" /> - -<p><i>City and County of New York, ss.</i>:</p> - -<p>Nicholas J. Sherman, being duly sworn, deposes and says:</p> - -<p>My name is Nicholas J. Sherman. I reside at No. 134 West 33rd Street, -Borough of Manhattan, City of New York. On the 15th day of August I was -visiting some friends at 37th Street near 7th Avenue, in a boarding -house. As the clock struck ten I left the house. I walked east toward -7th Avenue. At the corner of 37th Street and 7th Avenue I saw several -policemen chasing a person eastward. I do not know whether the person -was colored or not. I am a messenger and mailing clerk on the <i>New -York Herald</i>, and I naturally was interested, as I<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_78" id="Page_78">[Pg 78]</a></span> thought it was a -news item, and I walked across the street. When I got within six feet -of the sidewalk, near the drug store, on the corner of 37th Street and -7th Avenue, a policeman stopped me, and asked me, "Where in hell do you -live?" I told him in 33rd Street, and then he said, "G— d— you, go -home!" and he hit me with his club on the left arm. There were about a -dozen policemen standing around there, and two or three within reach. -One of these struck me across the right shoulder, and when I turned to -run the same policeman, I think, who struck me on the left arm again -struck me across the small of my back with his club. Then I limped -from there towards the saloon on the southwest corner of 37th Street -and 7th Avenue, where a policeman was leaning against a lamppost. As I -limped past him he struck me with his club on the right arm. I was then -unable to get away from him on account of my injury, but I managed to -get across the street and stood in front of the saloon on the southeast -corner, and a man came out and asked me to go in. I went in and leaned -against a barrel, and he told the bartender that the police had just -beaten me. As soon as I was able to walk I started for the <i>New York -Herald</i> office to tell the man whom I am employed under. I sat in the -chair at the <i>Herald</i> office all night, because there was a great crowd -around the street and I was afraid to go home. I left there the next -morning about six o'clock, went to my room and changed my clothing, and -started for my breakfast. Then I went to the office and worked all day, -until about six o'clock that evening. Then I went to my room, and was -so lame I could not get out again until the following Tuesday morning, -five days after, not even being able, in the meantime, to sit in a -chair. I still feel the effects of the clubbing. The blow on the small -of my back made my left limb almost paralyzed.</p> - -<p class="right"><span class="smcap">Nicholas J. Sherman.</span></p> - -<p>Sworn to before me this 24th day of August, 1900.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Herbert Parsons</span>, Notary Public, N. Y. County.</p> - -<hr class="smler" /> - -<p>Mr. Sherman states in addition that his chief in the newspaper office -directed him to report the matter to the police authorities, and that -he spoke to Chief Devery, who said to him substantially, "A negro -killed a policeman up there, and they can't be controlled."</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_79" id="Page_79">[Pg 79]</a></span></p> - -<hr class="smler" /> - -<p><i>City and County of New York, ss.</i>:</p> - -<p>My name is W. H. Cooper. I reside at 340 West 41st Street. On the -morning of August 15th, about half past nine, I went from the house -to the post office station at the southwest corner of 41st Street and -8th Avenue. When I reached that corner I saw a group of white men and -boys standing at the corner. When I passed this group at this corner I -overheard one of them saying, "We are going to get back at the niggers -to-night." One of the others said, "Is that true? Is there going to -be a riot to-night?" and the reply was "Yes." When I heard this I -went around the corner. There was a bicycle pump there. I went behind -the bicycle pump like I was looking in the window. I could overhear -everything that was said. One of the fellows said, "Have they buried -Thorpe, yet?" "No, we expect to bury Thorpe to-day;" and he says, "We -expect to have a hot time to-day when the funeral starts." It was -rumored around that he was to be buried on the day of the riot, but he -was not buried, however, until the next day. One of the fellows said, -"Have they got the nigger Harris, yet?" "Yes," he said, "they caught -him down at Washington, and if we can get our hands on him we will tar -and feather the bastard;" and I went into the drug store and came out -again after mailing my letter. When I came out I stood on the corner -and filled my pipe, and I overheard them say, "Have they got the woman -yet?" and they said, "Yes, she is locked up;" and the other fellow -said, "Well, that is all to-night." I did not move on until one of -the fellows said, "There is a coon standing there now; you had better -hush." Then I went down home and told the boys at the shop about it.</p> - -<p class="right"><span class="smcap">W. H. Cooper.</span></p> - -<p>Sworn to before me this 22nd day of August, 1900.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">John C. Barr</span>, Notary Public, Kings County. Certificate filed -in N. Y. County.</p> - -<hr /> - -<p>The Citizens' Protective League was organized in St. Mark's Church, -West 53d Street and Eighth Avenue, on Monday morning, September 3, -1900. The object of the League is, first, to afford mutual protection; -and, secondly, to prosecute the guilty. The League now numbers about -5,000, with daily increase.</p> - -<p>The following officers were elected:</p> - - -<p class="bold">OFFICERS.</p> - -<table summary="OFFICERS"> - <tr> - <td class="left">Rev. W. H. BROOKS, D.D., </td> - <td>President.</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="left">T. S. P. MILLER, M.D.,</td> - <td>Vice President.</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="left">Rev. H. P. MILLER,</td> - <td>Secretary.</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="left">JAMES E. GARNER,</td> - <td>Treasurer.</td> - </tr> -</table> - -<p class="bold">EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.</p> - -<table summary="EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE"> - <tr> - <td class="left">T. T. FORTUNE, Chairman, </td> - <td class="left">L. H. LATIMER,</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="left">W. R. DAVIS, Secretary,</td> - <td class="left">Rev. R. D. WYN,</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="left">C. A. DORSEY,</td> - <td class="left">J. F. THOMAS,</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="left">Rev. P. B. TOMPKINS,</td> - <td class="left">N. B. DODSON,</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="left">Rev. J. W. SCOTT,</td> - <td class="left">Rev. G. HUNT,</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="left">D. M. WEBSTER,</td> - <td class="left">Rev. L. L. CUYLER,</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="left">Rev. C. T. WALKER, D.D.,</td> - <td class="left">Rev. H. C. BISHOP,</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="left">Rev. W. L. HUBBARD,</td> - <td class="left">Rev. W. D. COOK, D.D.,</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="left">Rev. GEO. W. BAILEY,</td> - <td class="left">MELVIN J. 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