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1 Persecution of Negroes by Roughs and Policemen, in the City of New York, August, 1900 1 (1900)

handle is hein.newyork/pnrpm0001 and id is 1 raw text is: PERSECUTION OF NEGROES BY Roughs and Policemen, in the City of New York, August, 19oo. STATEMENT AND PROOFS WRITTEN AND COM- PILED BY FRANK MOSS AND ISSUED BY THE CITIZENS' PROTECTIVE LEAGUE. STATEMENT OF THE PERSECUTION. THE riots and persecutions described in this pamphlet occurred mainly in the 20th Police Precinct, which is under the command of Acting Captain John Cooney, and within the jurisdiction of In- spector.Walter L. Thompson. Chief William S. Devery resides in the precinct, near the scene of the disorder. The district has a large colored population, and mixed with it are many dissolute and lawless white persons. On August the 12th last a Negro named Arthur Harris was with his wife at 41st Street and 8th Avenue. He says that he left her to buy a cigar, and when he returned he found ier in the grasp of a man in citizen's dress. This man was a police officer, named Robert J. Thorpe, who had arrested her, as he claimed, for soliciting. Harris says that he did not know Thorpe was an officer, and that he attempted to rescue his wife. The policeman struck Harris with. his club, and Harris retal- iated with his penknife, inflicting a mortal wound, and then ran away. Thorpe was attached to the 20th Precinct, and was much liked by his comrades. Policemen thronged his home, and his funeral, on August 16th, was attended by Chief Devery, Inspector Thomp- son, and other officials. Harris, the murderer, had disappeared, and many policemen who were interested in Thorpe were seized with a desire of venge- ance on Negroes generally. During the day of the funeral there

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