African Americans -- New York (State) -- New York; Riots -- New York (State) -- New York
"Herman Ohm" saying that was the name of the officer who had assaulted
me. Captain Cooney expressed surprise that any of the officers should
have beaten me, as I was known to a great many of them. The officer
charged me with having a gun, and of giving him a fight in the hallway,
but did not produce the gun and was given until the next day to
produce it, when he produced a revolver and a bread knife of peculiar
shape, claiming that was what I had in my possession at the time of my
arrest. Deponent denied then and now that he had ever had a revolver
and knife in his possession, and that the only thing that was found on
him and taken from him was fifty cents in money and a small penknife.
Notwithstanding the denial of the ownership of the revolver and knife
by the deponent, and also that the officer brought no witnesses as
to his taking the said articles from him, deponent was fined fifteen
dollars, which was paid.
W. E. JOHNSON.
Sworn to before me this 4th 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._:
Edwin H. Broadard, being duly sworn, deposes and says that he resides
at 332 West 37th Street; that he witnessed the action of the officer
mentioned in the above affidavit of W. E. Johnson, and also the
subsequent clubbing of Johnson by the said officer, and that deponent
was one of the tenants who was chased off the stoop by the said
officer; that the assault on the tenants by the said officer was
unwarranted and without justification.
EDWIN H. BROADARD.
Sworn to before me this 4th 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. Rosa Lewis, being duly sworn, deposes and says:
I reside at 332 West 37th Street. On Wednesday, August 15th, 1900,
about eleven P. M., I in company with my husband and a number
of other tenants were sitting on the front stoop of our home, when an
officer approached and ordered us to "get inside out of that," adding
that if we didn't he'd club us. All of the tenants immediately obeyed
and passed on into the hallway, and I had reached the foot of the
stairs leading up to my rooms when the officer, who had rushed into the
hallway, struck me over the back with his club; I was lame in my back
and suffered pain from it for a number of days. Deponent states further
that the staircase is in the center of the house and about fifteen feet
from the main entrance; that she was using every endeavor to comply
with the command of the officer, which was given in an insulting and
ill-natured manner.
ROSA LEWIS.
Sworn to before me this 13th 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._:
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