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Butler's Food Market looted
The address is recorded in the Harlem Magistrates Court docket book as that of James Marshall, the complainant in prosecutions against three Black men, Nelson Brock, Reginald Mills and William Grant, all charged with burglary. Although that column of the docket book is headed "Residence" clerks commonly put the address related to the charge in that space rather than the home of the complainant. None of the other sources that mention the men include any information about the location from which they allegedly stole merchandise. All three men appear in the list of those charged with burglary published in the Atlanta World, Afro-American and Norfolk Journal and Gazette (but not the list in the New York Evening Journal). Brock and Mills are listed as having also been charged with inciting a riot, suggesting that police alleged they had somehow contributed to others attacking the store. The only information in the list are names. All three men are also in the 28th Precinct Police Blotter, which records their alleged crime as "Burglarized store during riot." The docket book identified Officer Redmond of the 28th Precinct as having arrested all three men. Multiple arrests at the same location are rare during the disorder.
Brock, Mills and Grant appeared in Harlem Magistrates Court on March 20, charged only with burglary, when Magistrate Renaud remanded them in custody. When they were returned to court on March 25, Magistrate Ford discharged them so they could be rearrested as they had been indicted by the grand jury, and then held them on $1000 bail. No further records mention the outcome of those prosecutions. The 28th Precinct Police Blotter recorded only the discharge on March 25.
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- "Transcripts of Police Blotter - Precinct 28, March 19 & 20, 1935," MCCH - Juvenile Delinquency - 1935-36, Departmental Correspondence. Box 34, Folder 1 (Roll 171), Records of Mayor Fiorello H. La Guardia, 1934-1945.
- "List of Dead And Injured In Riot In New York City," Norfolk Journal and Guide, March 30, 1935, 18.
- "Says Economic Conditions in Harlem Are Bad," Atlanta World, March 27, 1935, 1, 2.
- "Harlem Riot Damage is Figured at Half Million," Afro-American, March 30, 1935, 1, 2.
- Harlem Magistrates Court docket book