Sworn to before me this 30th day of September, 1900.
FRANK MOSS, Notary Public, N. Y. County.
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_City and County of New York, ss._:
William Shea, of 332 East 23rd Street, being duly sworn, deposes and
says:
I work for John P. Kane, foot of East 14th Street. On the first day of
the riot, August 15th, I was with Thomas Hughes. I had been with him to
see the Rev. Mr. Williams, in West 54th Street. We returned through 8th
Avenue and went through 36th Street. In 36th Street, between 7th and
8th Avenues, we saw a colored man standing. An officer rushed across
the street and hit the colored man on the head and felled him to the
sidewalk. The colored man was not doing anything. The officer was a
heavy man with large red mustache. My friend stopped to assist the man,
and the officer ordered him away. Some people from the house close
by pulled the colored man in. He was unconscious. I saw a number of
colored people struck by officers.