Sworn to before me this 22nd 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._:
Alfred Bradshaw, being duly sworn, deposes and says:
I reside at No. 210 West 27th Street with my wife and three children.
On August 16th, 1900, I bought a revolver on the Bowery, which I
intended to take home in the evening and leave there, as a protection
for my wife and children. There were numerous riots in the neighborhood
the evening before, and the rioters had broken into houses at all times
during the day and night, and I deemed it necessary for the protection
of my wife and children. I had been working at 96 Greene Street that
day. I am a general housecleaner, and work in all parts of the city. As
I was walking home on 7th Avenue, about four o'clock in the afternoon,
between 14th and 15th Streets, I saw a man run up to a police officer
and say something to him. The officer then came up to me and said,
"You've got a pistol; you give it up. I will arrest you." I handed him
the pistol, and he arrested me. I said as I handed it to him, "I bought
this pistol to protect my family at home. I heard of this rioting, and
I bought this pistol to protect my home." He said, "Why don't you call
to the officers for protection?" I said, "The officers can't protect
my home, because I don't know what time the riot might come in, and
we can't always find an officer on beat. I heard them break into some
houses and beat people unmercifully." I was taken to the 30th Street
station house. While there I saw Solomon Wright, who is at present in
the Penitentiary at Blackwell's Island, a Negro, being clubbed by a
policeman as he was being led from the sergeant's desk into the cell.
He was bleeding from his head, and his eye was discolored. I have been
in the city for twenty years, and have never been arrested before. I
did not show this pistol to anyone after I bought it, and intended to
leave it at the house, as a protection to my family.
ALFRED x BRADSHAW.
his mark
Sworn to before me this 4th day of September, 1900.
STEPHEN B. BRAGUE. Notary Public (125), N. Y. County.
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_City and County of New York, ss._:
John H. Kellum, being duly sworn, deposes and says:
I was on a Broadway car on the evening of Wednesday, August 15th, at
about 11:30 P. M. I boarded the car at the corner of 46th
Street and Broadway, and had reached a point a little north of 35th
Street, when I heard a mob run after the car and commence throwing
missiles at and into the car. Among other missiles was a little bottle,
which I caught, and with which I kept the rioters at bay. The car got
a short distance ahead of the mob, when it had passed 34th Street,
and I took advantage of that and jumped from the car and ran towards
three policemen in uniform, and two who were in citizens' clothes. One
of them said not to run any further, and one of the men in citizens'
clothes said, "Get on this car, and I'll get on with you." I did so
and rode to 32nd Street, and the said officer got on the rear platform
of the same car. I got off at 32nd Street and was not molested again.
Deponent further says that the officers made no attempt to disperse the
mob, though they were in plain sight. Deponent further says that he has
lived in the 19th Precinct for about eighteen years, and is well known
to a number of the officers of that precinct.