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Albert Bass arrested
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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- "Transcripts of Police Blotter - Precinct 28, March 19 & 20, 1935," Folder "MCCH - Juvenile Delinquency - 1935-36," Correspondence (Roll 13), Records of Mayor Fiorello H. La Guardia, 1934-1945.
- Harlem Magistrates Court docket book
- "List of Those under Arrest in Harlem Riot and the Charges They Face," New York Evening Journal, March 20, 1935, 3.