Sworn to before me this 28th day of August, 1900.
STEPHEN B. BRAGUE, Notary Public (125), N. Y. County.
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_City and County of New York, ss._:
Lavinia Lockett, being duly sworn, deposes and says:
That she is the wife of James Joseph Lockett, and resides at 323 West
37th Street, in the Borough of Manhattan. That on August 15th, 1900,
at about eight o'clock in the evening, she with her husband visited
Mr. Thomas H. McGuire, a friend of ours, where we remained until about
11:15 P. M. Walking easterly to 8th Avenue, we met four police
officers in uniform on the northwest corner. We had gone about fifty
feet, when the officers ran after us and struck my husband with a
club and said, "You black son of a b----, you have a knife," and when
deponent screamed she was struck in the mouth and chest with a club by
one of the officers. We were taken to the station and locked in cells;
my husband was charged with being drunk and disorderly, and we were
held in bail in the sum of $500. Neither my husband nor myself was
intoxicated, and saw no crowd or any row and no excitement on our way
home until we were assaulted.