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Harlem in Disorder: A Spatial History of How Racial Violence Changed in 1935

Albert Allen arrested

Sometime during the disorder, Albert Allen was arrested and charged with Burglary. Allen's name appeared among those charged with Burglary in the list published in the Atlanta World, Afro-American and Norfolk Journal and Guide. However, Allen did not appear in the list published in the New York Evening Journal (which included an person's age, race and address), the 28th Precinct Police Blotter, the docket book of either Magistrates Court or any newspaper stories, and there was no evidence of the location of the business that he allegedly looted.

The same lack of information existed for eight other men who appeared only in the list published in the Atlanta World, Afro-American and Norfolk Journal and Guide, seven of who were charged with Petit Larceny. Six of those men were found in 32nd Precinct "Police Reports" gathered by the MCCH. Those index cards appeared to be transcribed from the Police Blotter. In the case of those other men, the outcome recorded was "Final Disposition ?." The other man, Archie Niles, like Allen was also missing from those records. Given the men's absence from the court docket book, that evidence suggests that for some reason Allen and the others were not arraigned. That they did not appear in court could mean that police questioned and released them the next day.

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