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Dodge grand jury hearing, March 22 (4)
Only the New York Sun and Times Union reported the number of witnesses, while the Daily Mirror mentioned that most were police officers. The assistant district attorneys presenting the witnesses were also identified by the New York Sun and Times Union, while the New York Times gave their number. The number of indictments, the number of people charged in them and the offense with which they were charged were widely reported, in the New York Evening Journal, New York Sun, Times Union, New York American, New York Times, New York Herald Tribune, New York World-Telegram, Daily News, and Daily Mirror. Only the Home News, New York Post, and New York Herald Tribune did not report the indictments. That Dodge had to reduce the inciting riot charges the grand jury voted the previous day was only mentioned in the New York World-Telegram, New York Sun, and Times Union, none of which commented on that decision.
The grand jury voted those indictments in the morning, before adjourning for lunch. Reporters from most newspapers appeared not to have returned in the afternoon. Only the New York American, New York World-Telegram, and New York Herald Tribune included the typewriter taken from the ILD offices at 415 Lenox Avenue and the mimeograph machine from the offices of the Nurses and Hospital League at 780 Broadway in their stories. The New York World-Telegram led with those details, that the typewriter had “type faces which seemed to correspond with those of allegedly inflammatory circulars distributed before the Harlem riot Tuesday night.” It attributed that information to police, who likely also provided the information that one of the two unnamed witnesses who appeared before the grand jury after the machines had to be threatened with removal to the House of Detention, reported in both the New York World-Telegram and New York American. The New York Herald Tribune quoted Dodge as saying “experts would testify” that the circulars had been produced on the machines. The New York Post mentioned only that the typewriter was believed to be in the district attorney's possession (it did not report the grand jury hearings).
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- "Harlem Death Toll Rises to 4; Mayor's Group Starts Probe; 2 More Succumb to Riot Injuries as Inquiry Begins," New York Post, March 23, 1935, 3.
- "Riot Link Found in Typewriter," New York World-Telegram, March 22, 1935, 12.
- "Two More Victims of Harlem Riot Die," New York Daily News, March 23, 1935, 15.
- "2d Harlem Riot Victim Dies; 4 More Indicted," New York Herald Tribune, March 23, 1935, 5.
- "4 More Indicted by Jury Probing Riots in Harlem," Times Union, March 22, 1935, 3.
- "4 More Indicted in Harlem Riots," New York Times, March 23, 1935, 7.
- "Result of Riot," New York Sun, March 22, 1935, 1.
- "Second Man Dies in Harlem Riot," Daily Mirror, March 23, 1935, 6.
- "Harlem Red Group Ousted," New York Evening Journal, March 22, 1935, 1.
- "Source of Riot Handbills Found," New York American, March 23, 1935, 5.