Sworn to before me this 31st 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._:
Mrs. Elizabeth Mitchell, being duly sworn, deposes and says that she
resides at 481 7th Avenue; that on Wednesday evening, August 15th,
1900, about 11:30 P. M., two police officers in citizens'
clothes and one in citizen's dress broke in the door of her apartments
claiming to be looking for "the man that threw the bottle." She
answered and said that "no bottle was thrown," and that it was a shame
for them to break in the door of respectable people; that her sister,
Mrs. Kate Jackson, became frightened at the uproar, and thinking that
the life of her children and herself was in danger, jumped out of the
window with her three-year-old child in her arms, thereby endangering
the life of herself and child, and in consequence is now confined to
her bed with shock, fright, and bruises. That at six A. M. the
next morning she saw a colored man and woman assaulted on the corner of
36th Street and 7th Avenue. Also at 52nd Street and 7th Avenue, between
eleven and twelve A. M., she saw a colored man assaulted by
a white man, and when the officer attempted to interfere and arrest
the white man the motormen around the stables refused to allow him
to arrest him. She states further that one of the officers' first
name was "Jim," as she heard him so addressed by the man in citizen's
clothes.