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

Alice Mitchell injured

Alice Mitchell was at the intersection of Lenox Ave and West 129th Street around 1:30AM when she was “cut by falling glass.” The twenty-one-year-old woman of unknown race lived only a few buildings west on 129th Street, an area of black residents, so may have been a bystander drawn by the noise on Lenox Avenue at this time, when a number of incidents of looting took place. Another person, Hugh Young, was also injured by flying glass at the same time and place.

A hospital record indicates a physician from Harlem Hospital treated Mitchell for lacerations to her wrist likely at the hospital, which was half a dozen blocks north on Lenox Ave. The same physician treated Hugh Young. Mitchell also appeared in only two lists of the injured, those published by the New York Daily News and New York Evening Journal. Both reported different injuries, lacerations to the face and neck on the New York Daily News, and to the head in the New York Evening Journal. Others injured by flying class suffered wounds to their legs (2), hands (1), and in the case of Hugh Young, to the head. After being seen by the physician, Mitchell went home, her injury evidently not serious enough for her to be sent to the hospital.
 

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