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Andrew Lyons killed
Lyons' delayed admission to hospital explains why he was not in any lists of the injured published in newspapers on March 20 and March 21. The first mentions of Lyons in the press are mentions of his death in the New York Post and Daily News on March 23, in the New York Herald Tribune, Times Union, New York Times and an AP story on March 24, and in the Atlanta World on March 27. Lyons also appeared in lists of those killed in the weekly Black newspapers, the New York Age, Pittsburgh Courier, Afro-American and Norfolk Journal and Guide as well as the New York Amsterdam News, on March 30. The only sources that provided any details of the circumstances of Lyons' fatal injury were the Times Union, which described him as having been "beaten over the head with a blunt instrument during the rioting on Tuesday night," and the New York Herald Tribune, which described the attack in the same terms but attributed it to "rioters." Those newspapers were alone in following the death record in describing his injury as a fractured skull. However, neither the death record nor the autopsy mentioned a blunt instrument as the cause of Lyons' injuries.
There is no indication where the reporters for New York Amsterdam News New York Herald Tribune and Times Union obtained information on where Lyons was attacked. No such evidence was produced for the MCCH. If the reporters were correct, Lyons would have been in the midst of police efforts to establish a perimeter around Kress' store, and his injuries likely the product of a police nightstick. One of Communist Party-affiliated lawyers who questioned Captain Rothengast during a MCCH hearing did claim that "Andrew Lyons died of injuries inflicted by clubs of the police." Rothengast replied, "I'd have to consult records to be exact." The MCCH had its investigators gather information on those killed during the disorder. In Lyons' case, the only material in their files are the death and autopsy records. The autopsy recorded "Detectives investigating." Given that Hauer told the MCCH hearing that Harris knew nothing about how Lyons had been injured, there are no avenues for investigation in those records. Likely as a result, Lyons death appears to have remained unexplained. Notwithstanding the claim made by the lawyer in the MCCH hearing that police were responsible for the death, the information accompanying Lyons name in a list of "Workers Killed in the Past Six Months" published in New Masses in July 1935 stated, "Died of internal injuries received during the Harlem events of March 19."
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- "Police Still on Riot Duty," New York Amsterdam News, March 30, 1935, 1, 2.
- "Riot Deaths Mounting Daily as Fourth Victim Succumbs. Extra Police Still on Duty; Many Sentenced to Workhouse Terms," New York Age, March 30, 1935, 1
- "Harlem Death Toll Rises to 4; Mayor's Group Starts Probe; 2 More Succumb to Riot Injuries as Inquiry Begins," New York Post, March 23, 1935, 3.
- "Two More Victims of Harlem Riot Die," New York Daily News, March 23, 1935, 15.
- "Blamed for Riot, Harlem Girl Fined. Disorders Fatal to Three Laid to Her Screaming in Store Where Boy Stole Knife. 5 MEN GO TO WORKHOUSE. Dodge Expects Arrest of Red Leaders," New York Times, March 24, 1935, 19.
- "Probe Cause of Harlem Riot" Pittsburgh Courier, March 30, 1935, 1
- "Third Victim Dies of Riot Injuries," Times Union, March 24, 1935, 2.
- Public Hearings - Outbreak (March-April 1935), 101-102, Subject Files, Box 408, Folder 8 (Roll 194), Records of Mayor Fiorello H. La Guardia, 1934-1945 (New York City Municipal Archives).
- Public Hearings - Outbreak (March-April 1935), 45, Subject Files, Box 408, Folder 8 (Roll 194), Records of Mayor Fiorello H. La Guardia, 1934-1945 (New York City Municipal Archives).
- "Third Victim of Riots Dies in Harlem Hospital," New York Herald Tribune, March 24, 1935, 3.
- "Autopsy of Andrew Lyons," March 24, 1935, "Harlem, Mayor's Commission on Conditions in," Box 25, Folder 19, Arthur Garfield Hays Papers (Princeton University).
- "Another Succumbs To Injuries in Riot," Washington Post, March 24, 1935, 11.
- "Death of Andrew Lyons," March 23, 1935, "Harlem, Mayor's Commission on Conditions in," Box 25, Folder 19, Arthur Garfield Hays Papers (Princeton University).