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Detective William Boyle assaulted
He appears in the New York Times alongside other officers assaulted at the front and rear of Kress’ store on West 124th Street, where police had pursued crowds from 125th Street, offering a possible location for the assault. However, ambulances treated those officers, Patrolman Michael Kelly and Detective Charles Foley, and almost two hours before Boyle was treated, although they received treatment at the scene, while Boyle was attended at the 28th Precinct.
Boyle appeared on lists of the injured published by the New York American, New York Daily News, New York Post, New York Herald Tribune and New York Evening Journal, in addition to the story in the New York Times. Unusually, they all reported his injury as cuts to the left ankle from being hit with a rock. It seems likely given that injury that the unknown white man that Boyle intervened to protect was the target of missiles rather than being beaten. According to the hospital record of the ambulance callout, Boyle remained on duty.
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- "Injured," New York Daily News, March 20, 1935, 3
- “List of Victims," New York Evening Journal, March 20, 1935, 1, 3.
- "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 Casualties in Riots,” New York Post, March 20, 1935, 6.
- "Police Shoot Into Rioters; Kill Negro in Harlem Mob. 3,000 Storm Store After Boy Knife Thief, 16, Is Reported Lynched-Several Shot - Many Felled by Stones," New York Times, March 20, 1935, 1.
- "1 Slain, 20 Injured in Harlem Rioting," New York American, March 20, 1935, 1.
- "Medical Attendances, 19-20 March 1935," Subject Files, Box 167, Folder 5 (Roll 76), Records of Mayor Fiorello H. La Guardia, 1934-1945 (New York City Municipal Archives).