Sworn to before me this 6th day of September, 1900. SAMUEL MARCUS, Notary Public, N. Y. County. ---- _City and County of New York, ss._: Thomas Hughes (white), of No. 646 East 13th Street, New York City, being duly sworn, deposes and says: On August 15th, 1900 (the first day of the outbreak), about 8:45 P. M., I was in 36th Street between 7th and 8th Avenues. I was on my way home after having called on Rev. Leighton Williams, at 312 West 54th Street. There were quite a number of persons moving about in the street, and half a dozen policemen moving about. I noticed a colored man about five feet seven, smooth-faced, about twenty-eight or thirty years old, standing in front of a doorway near a grocery store. He wasn't doing anything, and wasn't talking to anybody. An officer with a heavy reddish mustache rushed across the street at him and said, "You black bastard, what are you doing here?" and at the same instant struck him over the head with his club, felling the Negro to the street. The Negro bled and lay unconscious. I tried to wipe the blood from him, and the officer spoke roughly to me and ordered me away. Friends of the Negro dragged him into the hallway. My journey was down 8th Avenue to 36th Street, and down 7th Avenue to 35th Street, and I saw a number of police officers strike a number of persons with their clubs. All whom I saw struck were colored persons, and I noticed that as a peculiar fact. I was accompanied by William Shea, of 332 East 23rd Street. THOMAS HUGHES. Sworn to before me this 30th day of September, 1900. FRANK MOSS, Notary Public, N. Y. County. ---- _City and County of New York, ss._: William Shea, of 332 East 23rd Street, being duly sworn, deposes and says: I work for John P. Kane, foot of East 14th Street. On the first day of the riot, August 15th, I was with Thomas Hughes. I had been with him to see the Rev. Mr. Williams, in West 54th Street. We returned through 8th Avenue and went through 36th Street. In 36th Street, between 7th and 8th Avenues, we saw a colored man standing. An officer rushed across the street and hit the colored man on the head and felled him to the sidewalk. The colored man was not doing anything. The officer was a heavy man with large red mustache. My friend stopped to assist the man, and the officer ordered him away. Some people from the house close by pulled the colored man in. He was unconscious. I saw a number of colored people struck by officers. WILLIAM SHEA. Sworn to before me this 30th day of August, 1900. FRANK MOSS, Notary Public, N. Y. County. ---- Statement of Paul Leitenberger and Alfred E. Borman (white), of 105 East 22nd Street: