Sworn to before me this 4th day of September, 1900.
GEO. P. HAMMOND, JR., Notary Public (164), N. Y. County.
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_City and County of New York, ss._:
Mrs. Rosa Lewis, being duly sworn, deposes and says:
I reside at 332 West 37th Street. On Wednesday, August 15th, 1900,
about eleven P. M., I in company with my husband and a number
of other tenants were sitting on the front stoop of our home, when an
officer approached and ordered us to "get inside out of that," adding
that if we didn't he'd club us. All of the tenants immediately obeyed
and passed on into the hallway, and I had reached the foot of the
stairs leading up to my rooms when the officer, who had rushed into the
hallway, struck me over the back with his club; I was lame in my back
and suffered pain from it for a number of days. Deponent states further
that the staircase is in the center of the house and about fifteen feet
from the main entrance; that she was using every endeavor to comply
with the command of the officer, which was given in an insulting and
ill-natured manner.