Sworn to before me this 10th day of September, 1900.
GEO. P. HAMMOND, JR., Notary Public (164), N. Y. County.
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_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.
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_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.