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Charles Jones arrested
12022-11-18T03:10:04+00:00Anonymous14plain2023-10-29T21:53:53+00:00AnonymousCharles Jones, a twenty-six-year-old Black man, was recorded in the Washington Heights Magistrates Court docket book as charged with disorderly conduct on March 20. That appearance was mentioned in the New York Herald Tribune and Home Newson March 21 and the New York Age on March 30. He also appeared in the list of those arrested published in the Atlanta World, Afro-American, and Norfolk Journal and Guide, but not in any of the lists published in white newspapers. Jones was listed among those charged with riot, the initial charge recorded for many of those arrested during the disorder. Several of the others listed as facing that charge were identified as also charged with burglary; that Jones was not suggests he had not been arrested for alleged looting. The change in charge to disorderly conduct cast him not as a participant in inciting others, breaking windows, looting, or assault, but as a member of the crowds police encountered on the street, perhaps near outbreaks of violence, and arrested either mistaking them for participants or to get them off the streets. There is no information on when or where police arrested Jones.
Magistrate Ford convicted Jones and sentenced him to ten days in the Workhouse.
Jones' address was recorded as 128 West 134th Street.