Sworn to before me this 30th day of August, 1900.
GEO. P. HAMMOND, JR., Notary Public (164), N. Y. County.
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_City and County of New York, ss._:
Walter W. Coulter (white), 481 7th Avenue, being duly sworn, deposes
and says that on Wednesday evening, August 15th, 1900, there was quite
a disturbance around his place of business, and at about 11:30 P.
M. he saw a number of officers and men in citizens' clothes go
into the houses 481 and 483, and he, thinking they were part of the
crowd of roughs, stepped up to a police officer, who was quite tall and
stout and of reddish complexion, and said to him, "Why do you allow
those rowdies to go up into that house; there is no one except a lot
of respectable women and children in there, and possibly one man."
The police officer replied as follows: "You go on and mind your own
respectability, and you will have enough to do; they just shied a brick
at us." Deponent further states that no brick had been thrown; that,
in fact, they could not get a brick, as he was looking for one a short
while before that to do some repairing with, and could not find one;
that the only apparent reason for their going into the house was the
fact that a large, tall man, whom he can identify if he sees him again,
came along 7th Avenue, and seeing this colored man in the window called
out, "There's a big nigger; get him!" and immediately there was a rush
made for the house. Deponent states further that the police knew there
were none but respectable people in that house, as deponent had gone
to a great deal of trouble to get rid of a lot of dissolute people who
were in the house about a year ago, and in his endeavors to get rid of
them had called upon the police to aid him, so that they were perfectly
cognizant of the facts in the case.