Sworn to before me this 28th day of August, 1900.
GEO. P. HAMMOND, JR., Notary Public (164), N. Y. County.
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_City and County of New York, ss._:
Josephine Bullock, being duly sworn, deposes and says:
I reside at 351 West 36th Street. On Wednesday, August 15th, 1900,
about 9:30 o'clock P. M., I saw a crowd chase a colored man and
beat him, on the corner of 9th Avenue and 36th Street. The said man
succeeded in breaking away from the mob, and ran towards my house. When
he reached the stoop some of the male tenants who were seated on the
stoop told him to come in there, adding that "if they kill one they
might as well kill all of them." All during the evening the rioting
continued, and from the rear of the house I heard screams and groans
coming from the houses facing on 37th Street. About two o'clock A.
M. I heard shooting in the street, and in a short while after I saw
two police officers dragging a colored man from 341 West 36th Street,
who had on no clothing except a gauze undershirt. The officers were
clubbing the colored man, and the man was begging them not to club him,
as he had done nothing. The only answer he got was more blows and a
reply from one of the officers as follows: "Shut up, you black son of a
b----, or I'll kill you." Deponent states further that she got no sleep
that night, as the screaming and rioting continued until about half
past two or three A. M., when a violent storm came up, and the noise
subsided somewhat.
JOSEPHINE x BULLOCK.
her mark
Sworn to before me this 10th 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. Maggie Zeh, being duly sworn, deposes and says:
I reside at 351 West 36th Street. On Wednesday, August 15th, 1900, I
saw a colored man trying to get away from the mob, who were beating
him. He tried to get into No. 360, but could not. I then saw the
officers who had been standing on the corner of 9th Avenue and 36th
Street run towards this man and immediately commenced clubbing him.
They clubbed him so unmercifully that the man cried out, "For God's
sake kill me and be done with it; don't beat me in this manner," and
the last I saw of him they were taking him around into 9th Avenue
towards the station house. I also saw a mob coming from 9th Avenue,
with about ten or twelve officers in uniform in the lead. The officers
were shooting up towards the houses on the north side of the street.
Deponent declares that she heard no shooting until the officers came
into sight and commenced to shoot at the houses. Deponent further
states that between eleven or twelve o'clock she saw a colored man
and a woman come from a house on the west side of 9th Avenue. Before
this couple reached 9th Avenue she noticed two policemen, who had been
standing on the southeast corner of 9th Avenue and 36th Street, enter
the saloon on that corner. When the couple had passed the saloon some
men who were in citizens' clothes ran into the saloon, and immediately
came out again with the aforementioned officers, and pointed to the
couple going up the street, and said something to the officers. The
officers then followed the said couple up the street to 8th Avenue,
where I lost sight of them for about two minutes. At the expiration
of that time I looked towards 8th Avenue and I saw the same policemen
turning the corner, having in custody the aforementioned couple, and
when they reached the front of my house I saw that the man was bleeding
and was handcuffed. The woman attempted to speak, when she was ordered
with an oath to "shut up." While the officers who were previously
mentioned as doing the shooting in 36th Street, the officer who was
apparently in command and who wore a cap, and had all the appearance
of either a sergeant or a captain, shouted, "Get your heads in out of
there if you value your lives." Deponent further states that she has
read the affidavit of Josephine Bullock, which affidavit is hereto
attached, and she knows of her own knowledge that matters therein
stated are true.