African Americans -- New York (State) -- New York; Riots -- New York (State) -- New York
I reside at 403 West 29th Street. On Wednesday, August 15th, 1900,
about half past ten, while walking on 8th Avenue, between 28th and 29th
Streets, I was attacked by a mob and shoved through a glass show case,
cutting my head severely. I managed to get away from the mob and run
towards 8th Avenue and 28th Street, where I was stopped by a policeman,
who grabbed me, and the mob coming up at that moment some of them
shouted, "Arrest him; he has just broken a show case." I replied that I
did not, but that I had been shoved through it. The officer said, "Shut
up, or I'll shove this stick down your throat." He then took me to the
station house in West 37th Street, where I was detained from 10:30 P. M.
till four A. M. the next day. While in the station house I saw a man
brought in who had nothing on but an undershirt, and who was bleeding
from wounds in his head. I also saw Lee brought in, and saw the surgeon
administer an injection, and put him into the ambulance, saying, "This
fellow is almost gone," and rushed him off to the hospital. I also saw
Miss Lee, the aforementioned man's daughter, who was brought to the
station house with nothing but her nightgown on, and one of the women
in the station house loaned her a dress to put on.
WILLIAM DEVAN.
Sworn to before me this 11th 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._:
William Hopson, being duly sworn, deposes and says:
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