Sworn to before me this 5th day of September, 1900.
GEO. P. HAMMOND, JR., Notary Public (164), N. Y. County.
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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?"