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

Albert Bass arrested

Some time during the disorder, Officer Ferry of the 28th Precinct arrested Albert Bass, a twenty-seven-year-old Black man. He likely made the arrest in the vicinity of Lafayette Market at 2044 7th Avenue. Salvatore Marrone, with the address of 2044 7th Avenue, is recorded in the Harlem Magistrate's Court docket book as the complainant against Bass. The windows of the market were smashed during the disorder, and merchandise taken.

Just what Bass allegedly did is uncertain. Both the list published in the New York Evening Journal and the 28th Precinct Police blotter record the charge against Bass as burglary, with the blotter noting that he allegedly "In concert with others burglarized stores." However when Bass was arraigned in the Magistrate's Court he was charged with disorderly conduct. That charge suggests that he may have allegedly broken the store windows but that there was no evidence he had taken any merchandise. Bass lived only half a block west of the market, at 238 West 122nd Street.

Magistrate Renaud held Bass in custody until March 26, then convicted him and fined him $50 or, if he did not pay the fine, five days in the Workhouse, according to the docket book. The 28th Precinct Police blotter recorded a different outcome, a fine of $25.

Bass is one of a small number of those listed as arrested in the New York Evening Journal not also present in the list published in the Atlanta World, Afro-American, and Norfolk Journal and Gazette. The 28th Precinct Police blotter misspelled his name as Boss; both the New York Evening Journal and the Harlem Magistrate's Court docket book record his name as Bass.

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