Sworn to before me this 5th 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._:
James A. Scott, being duly sworn, deposes and says:
I reside at 225 West 60th Street. On Sunday afternoon, August 26th,
some officers went down the street towards 11th Avenue. They were
pursuing bad boys who had made a disturbance in the morning. I saw them
from my window, and after they reached 11th Avenue I went down to the
door, and stood there looking towards 11th Avenue, where there was a
crowd. There were only two persons near me, nearly all of the persons
who were on the street having gone down to the avenue; one was a boy
named Smith, and another young man who has moved away. An officer whom
I have since learned is John J. Cleary, came from 10th Avenue towards
me. He spoke to me before I saw him, saying, "Do you live here?" and I
turned to see who spoke to me, and as I turned towards him, before I
could reply he struck me a hard blow on my head with a hard substance,
which dazed me, and he followed it with a blow of his fist in the
mouth, and I went down in a heap. I began to bleed profusely from the
mouth. I was in my doorway when he struck me, so that I fell into my
hall. He did not attempt to arrest me. I went upstairs, and I heard a
woman's voice screaming, "Don't beat my husband." I looked out of the
window and saw the same policeman, Cleary, and other officers whom I
cannot identify, clubbing George L. Myers. The principal clubber was
the said Cleary. I saw him club the said Myers on the head until he
broke his club, and saw him pulling Myers up 60th Street, and punching
him with his fist. Myers was dreadfully beaten and was bleeding badly.