Dated October 1, 1900.
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_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.