Sworn to before me this 1st day of October, 1900.
GEO. P. HAMMOND, JR., Notary Public (164), N. Y. County.
(The Grand Jury refused to indict Lloyd Lee.)
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_City and County of New York, ss._:
Mrs. Nettie Threewitts, being duly sworn, deposes and says that she
resides at No. 200 West 37th Street; that on Wednesday, August 15th,
1900, about half past ten, she was preparing to retire, when her
stepfather, Lloyd Lee, came to her door, and she asked him what was
the matter. He replied, "Nettie, I'm shot!" He then ran to the roof.
Almost immediately after she heard two men come into the hallway, and
one said, "Get your revolver out!" They then came up to the hallway
where I was standing, and I saw that one was an officer in uniform
and one in citizen's clothes, a stout man. I asked them, "What's the
matter?" They said, "Where's that man?" I answered, "I don't know."
They then said, "Who is the man?" I answered, "He's my stepfather." The
man in citizen's clothes then said, "She's got blood on her; take her;
she's a prisoner." I then said, "You are not going to take me without
any clothes on?" He answered, "You don't need any clothes." I was then
brought downstairs and kept on the stoop until the patrol wagon came,
where a number of officers who were standing there called me a "black
b----," and one of them struck me in the head with his fist, another
one deliberately spit in my face, and another took his helmet and
jabbed it into my eye. This officer's number was either No. 3062 or
3064. The latter occurred while I was on my way to the West 54th Street
police court. Among the other remarks which were made to me was, "They
ought to burn up all the nigger ranches;" "Shut up, you're a w----, the
same as the rest of them." I was kept in the station house without any
additional clothes for about two hours, when a woman who lives on 41st
Street gave me an underskirt, which I put on. I was then brought into
the room back of the main room, and from there was taken back into a
cell. I was arraigned in the 54th Street police court and held in $500
bail for trial. Mr. R. T. Varnum went on my bond.