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STORY OF THE RIOT

PUBLISHED BY

THE CITIZENS'
PROTECTIVE LEAGUE

PRICE, 25 CENTS




COPY OF AN APPEAL TO THE MAYOR.


NEW YORK, _September 12, 1900_.

_TO HIS HONOR, ROBERT A. VAN WYCK,
MAYOR, NEW YORK CITY._

DEAR SIR:

Your communication of the 7th inst. in reply to my letter received.
We appreciate the consideration shown and interest manifested, but
earnestly petition your Honor for a fair and impartial investigation.
We condemn in unqualified terms lawlessness among our people, and by no
means condone the crime of Harris, nor his associates; but this crime,
as black as it may be, does not justify the policemen in their savage
and indiscriminate attack upon innocent and helpless people.

We ask for no money consideration, and our counsel, Hon. Frank
Moss, has been so advised. We are not respo