Sworn to before me this 21st 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._:
Headly Johnson, being duly sworn, deposes and says: I reside at 330
West 53rd Street. I am employed as a Pullman car porter, on the cars
running out of the West Shore depot, Weehawken, N. J. I arrived on my
train at the said depot on Thursday, August 16th, 1900, at 2:25 P.
M. I arrived in New York about 5:30 P. M. the same day,
and, having heard of the riots, I had prepared to protect myself from
the mob by carrying home with me a revolver. I boarded a car at the
West Shore ferry at the foot of West 42nd Street and transferred to
an 8th Avenue car at 34th Street, and had proceeded as far as 40th
Street, when the car was assailed by a mob shouting, "There's another
nigger! Kill him! lynch him!" I stood up and was ready to defend
myself, when a passenger on the car asked me to sit down, saying that
if the mob got on the car he would help me defend myself. I sat down as
requested, and happening to look over my shoulder I saw three police
officers in uniform running after the car. They boarded the car, and,
seizing me, one of the officers put his hand in my pocket and took
the revolver from me, then pulled me off the car, saying, "Come off
of here, you black son of a b----!" When they had pulled me off the
car they immediately commenced clubbing me, and continued to do so all
the way to the station house. While in the station house I saw several
colored men beaten by police officers. The sergeant at the desk, when
I was sent to a cell, shouted to the police officers, "Don't hit this
man!" repeating the same several times. I was taken to the police court
the next day, where I was discharged. Deponent states further that the
officer who arrested him and appeared against him in the police court
is the one who did the most of the clubbing; in fact, all of it except
one blow. Deponent declares further that he was proceeding quietly to
his home, where he was determined to go, and was not molesting anyone,
and that when the officers signified their intention to arrest him
he made no show of resistance, and that therefore the clubbing was
unjustifiable and an outrage.