Sworn to before me this 7th 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._:
Lloyd Lee, being duly sworn, deposes and says:
I reside at 200 West 37th Street. On Wednesday, August 15th, 1900,
about ten o'clock P. M., I was up about West 41st Street near
7th Avenue, when I saw considerable rioting going on, and immediately
made an attempt to get to my home, going to 8th Avenue, thence to 38th
Street, and thence to 7th Avenue, and had got to within thirty yards
of my home when I heard footsteps in the gravel behind me; I turned
around and saw a man hatless and in citizen's clothes coming after me;
thinking he was a rioter, I jumped aside and asked him what was the
matter. He did not answer, but struck me over the head with his club,
and when I tried to run away he struck me again. Finding I could not
get away, I drew the only weapon I had, namely, a small pocketknife,
and cut at him with it. He then drew his revolver, and shot me in the
mouth and in the arm. I then run to any front door and slammed it
shut, and then opened the inner door, and saw no one around, but I saw
a revolver lying on the front steps. I picked it up and took it with
me to the roof. After reaching the roof I sank down and knew nothing
further until the next day, when I found myself in Bellevue Hospital.
I was taken to the 54th Street court and from there remanded to the
Tombs, where I remained until September 25th, 1900, when I was brought
to Part I, where I was discharged.