New-York tribune., 1900-08-28
PROOF OFFERED BY DIR BPooKs
SAYS HE WILL MAKE GOOD ALI, HIS
CHARGES AGAINST THE POLICE

SAYS HE WILL MAKE GOOD ALL HIS
CHARGES AGAINST THE POLICE.
The Rev DR.. w. H. Brooks, pastor Of St Marks
Methodist Church. in Fifty-third-st near Eighth
ave. said last evening to a Tribune reporter re-
garding the recent so-called race riots and the
charges the Doctor made Sunday night against
the police, that he willing to appear before anv
investigating committee with witnesses and prove
all he had said in his sermon. 1t was his in
tention, if justice obtained from the police
investigating committee on Thursday to push the
matter further. The justice asked for was the re-
moVaI or officers proved guilty Of the charges made
against them in the Doctors sermon
4 will produce Witnesses said DR. Brooks
for every charge I made in my sermon. I cannot
go into details as to programme for obtaining
redress more than have said. am doing this
tor the protection of my people. and like everv
other coiored man. l feel outraged by the recent
occurrences in which colored were knocked
down and clubbed for nothing and colored women
were pu1ed on the The facts 1 have oh
taihed7fron persons who have been beaten by the
police. and we are awaiting redress"
While the riotng was breaking out in
cipienty uptown on Sunday night there was a dis
turbance further downtown, in the old district
where there was rioting fortnight ago John
Brooks, of No. 142 West Observation-Disclosures aS SS
sarah ii DAVIS Of No 14l West Twenty seventh-st
We're arraigned in the jefferson Market Court YES.
terday morning. Sarah Davis had a broken left
arm and bad cut on her head. made with the
leg OF a broken chair by Murray ~
Murray went down to Brooks last night and
after they had drunk enough to make them ,IgIyt
they went over to the Davis woman's apartme1ts
IN the rear of No. 141 West TWentv-seventh-et
There We're many white people there including
Mrs. Mary Mcdonald, a brawny Irish woman v,bSS
does not care much for fights but showed she
could do her share OF fighting.
Murray and Brooks started the fight by ouarrel
ling with each other. The Davis woman in soma
manner incurred Murray's wrath, but she escaned
him, and general fight ensued between the whites
and negroes. good deal of pummeIling OF heads
taking place till Mrs. Mcdonald said she IIomid
have no more of IT. She seized the biggest IF
the negroes and white men and thrust them out ~
the house into the court with such ease that tha
others became frightened and ran out to escane
her. 1Pe
In the courtyard sat the Davis woman and MIR
ray, as soon as he saw her. at her with a Iep
of a broken chair, and hit her in the head Cuttins
the scalp. He hit at her head again but she
fell screaming and Policeman Frost. of the West
the Davis and Brooks with disorderiI, oo,9 er9
duct and Murray with feionious assauit Gplo Ti
latter held in $500 bail trial in SnacioI e.
fined SO. ~ A0'NS
President York of the Police Board said 1estar
day that he had read the reports of the police ON
GERS submitted to him, but had nothing TO saw
about them. He said that the form of the IN
vestigation into the riots asked for by the Wavor
had not been determined yet. He said he V,oI,Id
not decide whether to hold public hearing tiII the
af1davts and evidence TO be submitted had reached
him.