Sworn to before me this 28th day of August, 1900.
STEPHEN B. BRAGUE, Notary Public (125), N. Y. County.
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_City and County of New York, ss._:
Mrs. Louisa Francis, 341 West 36th Street, being duly sworn, deposes
and says:
I have been housekeeper of the said 341 West 36th Street for the past
eleven years. On Thursday, August 16th, 1900, at two o'clock A.
M., I heard a number of pistol shots in the street near my home,
and heard shouts of "Go into 341, break in the doors, kill the black
sons of b----s"--all the said shouts apparently coming from the
direction of 342 across the street. Almost immediately thereafter the
doors were broken in, the glass in said doors being smashed, and about
seven police officers rushed into the house and commenced shooting and
yelling, "Kill the black sons of b----s!" "Put your heads in there, or
we'll blow them off!" They went to the fourth floor, where John Hains
lived, and dragged him out by the shoulders, his feet dragging, and
in that condition he was dragged out into the street. I washed up the
blood down from the fourth floor down the staircase to and on each and
every landing and including the vestibule. The officers, after staying
some time in the house, and ordering Mrs. Freeman, Mrs. Mason, and Mrs.
Jones to open their doors, and after searching the same, crossed over
the roof to 339 and went through that house.