Sworn to before me this 20th 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._:
Willis King, being duly sworn, deposes and says:
I reside at 346 West 41st Street, New York City. On Wednesday. August
15th, 1900, while passing through 34th Street, about 11:30 P.
M., I was joined by a crowd of men and boys. I crossed over to the
north side of the street, to where about a dozen officers stood, on the
northeast corner, in front of a saloon. I was grabbed by three of them
as soon as I got near them, and without saying a word they started me
up 8th Avenue towards the station house. On the way up 8th Avenue the
officer who was behind me, and who was feeling my clothes and pockets
for weapons, said, "He has nothing." Whereupon the officer on my right
suggested that they go down a dark street, which was done by turning
west on 35th Street. We had gone about one third of the way down the
block, on the south side of the street, when all three officers turned
on me and beat me with their clubs over the head and body. I was felled
to the sidewalk. When they stopped one of them remarked. "I guess that
will do him for a while," whereupon all three of them walked off,
leaving me lying upon the sidewalk. I managed to get to No. 327 West
35th Street, when a lady by the name of Mrs. Smith, who lives on the
second floor, and who had seen the officers clubbing some one, was
standing on the front stoop of her home; she asked me when she saw me
whether it was I that had been clubbed, and I told her that it was.
She then took me into Mrs. Conner's apartments on the first floor and
dressed the cuts in my head. Deponent declares that he did not know
anything about a disturbance, that he did not resist arrest, and that
he was perfectly sober and on his way home from visiting a friend on
East 27th Street.