Sworn to before me this 7th day of September, 1900.
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_City and County of New York, ss._:
Albert Saunders, being duly sworn, deposes and says: I live at 440 West
45th Street. I work at 118 West 27th Street. On August 15th I left
my work at night and walked up 8th Avenue toward my home. About 38th
Street a crowd ran at me, somebody struck me, and I staggered, and then
I received another blow that cut open my head and made me speechless.
I found myself in the hands of an officer, who took me to the station
house, where my wound was dressed. I stayed there till about four
A. M. A number of colored men were brought in by officers,
some of them cut and bleeding, like myself. I remember a colored man
who was brought in bleeding, and naked except for a merino shirt. When
he was taken back to the cells the policeman who had him clubbed his
legs. Another man who had a cut head was advised by the jailer to put
his head under the hydrant, but the man said he was afraid the officer
who had him would strike him again if he got his head down, so the
jailer got a pail and washed it. I was not in a position where I could
see clearly all that happened, but I saw several other colored men
struck and abused by policemen. I am an English subject, was born in
St. Kitts, and suppose that my speech showed that I was not an American
and protected me.