Sworn to before me this 24th 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._:
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.
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_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.