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Aubrey Patterson arrested
By the time Baumann brought Patterson to the 28th Precinct, the cells in the stationhouse on West 123rd Street were already full with others arrested during the disorder. Police transported Patterson and eighty-nine others to Police Headquarters, where they were housed in ?. On the morning of March 20, police put this group in a line-up and detectives questioned them in front of reporters before they were put into patrol wagons and taken back uptown to the Harlem and Washington Heights Magistrates Courts. <What Patterson said, according to HT - also Daily Mirror, NY Sun, BDE?> <Harry Gordon the focus of stories of this line-up>
In the Harlem Magistrates Court, prosecutors charged Patterson with Disorderly Conduct, not Burglary. That charge likely indicates that police had no evidence that he had either entered a store or taken merchandise, so could not be charged with Burglary or even Attempted Burglary, or with Larceny. Magistrate Renaud remanded him in custody on $100 bail. When Patterson appeared in court again, on March 25, Magistrate Ford discharged him.
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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 Riot Damage is Figured at Half Million," Afro-American, March 30, 1935, 1, 2.
- "List of Dead And Injured In Riot In New York City," Norfolk Journal and Gazette, March 30, 1935, 18.
- "Says Economic Conditions in Harlem Are Bad," Atlanta World, March 27, 1935, 1, 2.
- 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.