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In the Harlem court on March 22 (18)
The DM story did provide a context for the day's proceedings not made explicit by other publications, that "Magistrate Renaud began yesterday the work of cleaning his calendar of the remainder of 85 cases growing out of the Harlem riots." (similar statement in NYT) The number of cases in the story does not fit the legal records. No newspaper story identified all those who appeared in the court. The Home News, as it did on other dates, mentioned the largest number, ten of the seventeen, and described the charges against three of those convicted, Elizabeth Tai, Arthur Davis and Herbert Hunter and reported testimony by the storeowner whose business Daughty Shavos and Clifford Mitchell had allegedly looted. Tai, Davis and Hunter's convictions were the most widely reported hearings, also mentioned in the