Sworn to before me this 27th 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._:
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.