MARIA x WILLIAMS.
her mark
Sworn to before me this 4th day of September. 1900.
SAMUEL MARCUS, Notary Public. N. Y. County.
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_City and County of New York, ss._:
Mrs. Irene Wells, being duly sworn, deposes and says that she resides
at No. 239 West 29th Street; that on Wednesday evening, about nine
o'clock P. M., she visited a sick friend, named Mrs. Twine
(who has since died), at No. 216 West 29th Street, and while there,
and at about eleven o'clock P. M., hearing of the riot, she
rushed out of said 216 West 29th Street to look for her children and
get them safely at home--she having five children, and, motherlike,
was anxious to get them out of danger. That while gathering her
children together she noticed six police officers on each side of the
street, and had succeeded in getting her children up the stoop and
into the hallway of her home, and was on the second step of her stoop
going upstairs, when Police Officer 1065 came along, and, striking
her across the right hip with his club, said, "Get in out of here!"
and made several passes at her, and pursued her up two or three steps
of the stoop, but she rushed on up the stoop, driving her children
before her, and escaped him and his blows. Deponent further says that
she is a widow, and the sole support of her five children, by doing
general housework, ironing, and washing, etc., and has done so for the
past seven years; that she is a thoroughly respectable woman, and is
peaceful and quiet at all times, and deems this assault by the police
officer aforementioned an outrage, and without cause or provocation.
There were three children on the stoop with her.