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In Harlem court on March 25 (18)
The New York Times, New York Sun, New York Post and New York Evening Journal, and the Afro-American all only published stories anticipating the four men's appearance; they did not report the outcome. Those newspapers may have been anticipating a spectacle at the hearing, which often accompanied the appearance of Communists. Police certainly thought that a possibility, as the New York Herald Tribune, New York World-Telegram, and Daily News reported a heavy police presence. The hearing apparently did not deliver either disorder or any new information about the disorder. Stories in the New York Herald Tribune, New York American, Daily News, Home News and New York World-Telegram, and the New York Age, simply reported that detectives presented the Magistrate with bench warrants, after which he discharged the men as they had already been indicted and police turned them over to the detectives.
Journalists paid little attention to the other fourteen men who appeared. The adjournment of Harry Gordon's case while police continued their investigation of his alleged assault on Patrolman Young was reported in the Home News, New York American and New York World-Telegram. The Home News identified two of the other men discharged as having already been indicted by Dodge's grand jury, Carl Jones and Milton Ackerman. Those men are likely the two unnamed Black men indicted for looting that New York Herald Tribune reported were dealt with in that way. Neither story made any mention of the other four men who went through the same process, Nelson Brock, Reginald Mills, William Grant and Douglas Cornelius. Only the New York Herald Tribune made mention of any other men, reporting three other unnamed individuals as having been convicted and had their sentences suspended and one who was released. Legal records indicate the later was Aubrey Patterson, the only person released on March 26. Only two people, Louise Brown and Warren Johnson, appear in the legal records as having been convicted and sentenced. Information on the remaining defendants comes only from legal records.
The lack of attention to the those arrested in the disorder on this date reflected both the lack of spectacle in the hearings and in the details of the disorder revealed in prosecutions for relatively minor offenses, which contributed to the attention the press gave to statements District Attorney Dodge made on this date. However, Dodge would not deliver on his claims, leading journalists to turn instead to the public hearings of the MCCH.
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- "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.
- "Plan to Indict for Anarchy in Harlem Riots," Daily News, March 26, 1935, 14.
- "Indictments Due for Riot Anarchy," New York Sun, March 25, 1925, 2.
- "Dodge to Ask Anarchy Indictments Against Leaders of Fatal Harlem Riot," Home News, March 26, 1935, 1.
- "Mayor Blames Rioting Upon Need of Relief" New York American, March 26, 1935, 6.
- "Anarchy Charged in Harlem Riots," New York Post, March 25, 1935, 3.
- "Harlem Riot Guilt to be Sifted Today," New York Times, March 25, 1935, 34.
- "Harlem Rioters Face Anarchy Indictments," New York Herald Tribune, March 26, 1935, 17.
- "Riot Jury Set Against Reds to Ask Laws," New York Evening Journal, March 25, 1935, 2.
- "Mayor Assailed by Clergymen in Riot Inquiry," New York World-Telegram, March 25, 1935, 3.
- "Harlem's Third Rioter is Dead; Many Are Fined," Afro-American, March 30, 1935, 12.