window to see how he was being led by the officers. One of the rowdies in 342 said, "Look at the d----d nigger wench looking out of the window. Shoot her! Shoot her!" LUCY A. JONES. Sworn to before me this 28th day of August, 1900. STEPHEN B. BRAGUE, Notary Public (125), N. Y. County. ---- _City and County of New York, ss._: Mrs. Louisa Francis, 341 West 36th Street, being duly sworn, deposes and says: I have been housekeeper of the said 341 West 36th Street for the past eleven years. On Thursday, August 16th, 1900, at two o'clock A. M., I heard a number of pistol shots in the street near my home, and heard shouts of "Go into 341, break in the doors, kill the black sons of b----s"--all the said shouts apparently coming from the direction of 342 across the street. Almost immediately thereafter the doors were broken in, the glass in said doors being smashed, and about seven police officers rushed into the house and commenced shooting and yelling, "Kill the black sons of b----s!" "Put your heads in there, or we'll blow them off!" They went to the fourth floor, where John Hains lived, and dragged him out by the shoulders, his feet dragging, and in that condition he was dragged out into the street. I washed up the blood down from the fourth floor down the staircase to and on each and every landing and including the vestibule. The officers, after staying some time in the house, and ordering Mrs. Freeman, Mrs. Mason, and Mrs. Jones to open their doors, and after searching the same, crossed over the roof to 339 and went through that house. MRS. LOUISA FRANCIS. Sworn to before me this 28th day of August, 1900. GEO. P. HAMMOND, JR., Notary Public (164), N. Y. County. ---- _City and County of New York, ss._: Josephine Bullock, being duly sworn, deposes and says: