Sworn to before me this 8th 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._:
Benjamin McCoy, being duly sworn, deposes and says: I reside at 226
West 40th Street. On Thursday, August 16th, 1900, about five A.
M., I arose to go to my work. I went to Dobbins' restaurant, on
8th Avenue between 40th and 41st Streets, and had breakfast, after
finishing which I went to the corner of 41st Street to board an 8th
Avenue car, to reach my place of business. As I was standing waiting
for the car I saw two officers walking on the east side of the street,
and a colored man came running along with blood streaming from his
head, and said to me, "Don't stand there; go away, or those policemen
will club you to death; they just clubbed me." The car came along just
then, and I walked out to get on board, and had put my hand on the
rail, when one of the officers who had been on the other side of the
street came suddenly around from behind the car, and struck me on the
shin of my left leg, and struck me several times on the upper part of
the leg, saying, "Get in there, get in there! What are you standing
around here whistling for?" Deponent declares that he was not creating
any disturbance at the time, and that there were not over four or
five persons, outside of the police officers, on the street in the
immediate neighborhood, and that the assault was entirely unwarranted
and unjustifiable and a flagrant outrage, perpetrated, by one by whom
deponent would expect, and had a right to expect, to be protected.