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._:
William L. Hall, being duly sworn, deposes and says that he resides
at 202 West 49th Street; that he is employed as an elevator conductor
by R. H. Macy & Co., on West 14th Street; that on August 15th, 1900,
he was on his way to visit a friend at 410 West 36th Street, and had
reached 36th Street and 9th Avenue, when a crowd of young men and
boys, from about sixteen to nineteen years of age, got around him
and commenced yelling, jeering, hooting, and striking him with their
fists, and with sticks, pieces of pipe, and one in particular struck
him in the side with a weapon made of a long piece of wire, with a
hammer head fastened to it. He ran away from the crowd, and succeeded
in reaching a house in 36th Street between 8th and 9th Avenues, and
succeeded in defending himself there for about an hour and a half, and
finally managed to get out and home. Deponent states further that at
the time of the assault, and at the commencement of it, four officers
in full uniform were in the midst of the crowd of rioters, and were
with them while they (the rioters) were attacking the house with
stones, and that at that time, and at no time during the assault by
the rioters, did these officers make any attempt to protect deponent,
or to stop the assault by the rioters, but on the contrary, by reason
of their presence and inaction on their part, they encouraged the said
rioters to greater deeds of violence; that the deponent is a peaceable,
law-abiding citizen and a member of St. Mark's M. E. Church, on West
53rd Street, and that on the said evening he was molesting no one, and
was walking quietly along with Joseph Cæser, of 121 West 46th Street,
and John Hansborough, of 329 West 53rd Street, who also were attacked
by the rioters.