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Claudius Jones arrested
Neither the charge brought against Jones nor the outcome of his prosecution help resolve that contradiction. Both the 28th Precinct Police Blotter and the story in the New York Herald Tribune, as well as lists of those arrested during the disorder in the Afro-American, Atlanta World, Norfolk Journal and Guide, and New York Evening Journal and the New York American agree that he was charged with disorderly conduct (the Daily News did not include a charge). Only the 28th Precinct Police Blotter and the New York Herald Tribune mention the outcome of the prosecution, agreeing that Magistrate Capshaw found Jones guilty and gave him a suspended sentence. Both the charge and the outcome were common for those arrested for breaking windows and refusing to move on.
Arraignment in the Night Court, which opened at 8.00 PM and closed no earlier than 1.00 AM, suggests that Jones was arrested early in the disorder, and certainly before midnight, as the 28th Precinct Police Blotter recorded the arraignment as occurring on March 19, and likely before 10.00 PM given when the others arraigned on March were arrested. Five individuals recorded in the 28th Precinct Police Blotter as arraigned on March 19 were arrested before 10.10 PM: Margaret Mitchell, arrested around 5.00 PM; Claudio Diabolo, arrested around 6.45 PM; Paul Boyett, arrested around 9.00 PM; James Hughes, arrested around 10.00 PM; and Leroy Gilliard, arrested around 10.10 PM. For fur others, like Claudius Jones, there was no information on the time of their arrest: Louise Brown, William Jones, Rose Murrell and Viola Williams. Six other men that other sources show were arrested before 10.00 PM, Sam Jameson and Murray Samuels, arrested with Diabolo, the two speakers arrested before that group, Daniel Miller and Harry Gordon, Frank Wells and Leroy Brown, are missing from the transcript of the 28th Precinct Police Blotter.
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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.
- "1 Dead, 7 shot, 100 Hurt as Harlem Crowds Riot over Boy, 16, and Hearse," New York Herald Tribune, March 20, 1935, 1.
- "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 Prisoners and Charges," New York American, March 20, 1935, 4.
- "List of Those under Arrest in Harlem Riot and the Charges They Face," New York Evening Journal, March 20, 1935, 3.
- "Jailed for Rioting," New York Daily News, March 20, 1935, 4.