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Edward Genest assaulted
Genest’s assault took place near a cluster of assaults on whites and other events around 7th Avenue and 125th Street. Genest was likely a visitor to Harlem seeking entertainment around 125th Street, caught up in the disorder. He could have arrived by subway, unaware of what was happening until he arrived, at an unknown time.
The use of a knife in this assault was unusual; only one other of the 54 assaults in the disorder involved stabbing, distinguishing this violence from what occurred at other times. In the rest of 1935, knives were a favored weapon of those committing acts of violence, used in ?% of felony assault cases.
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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.
- "5 dying and Scores Wounded as Race Riots in Harlem Subside," Home News, March 20, 1935 [clipping]
- "Snipers Fire on Police From Harlem Rooftop," Brooklyn Daily Eagle, March 20, 1935, 1, 2.
- “List of Casualties in Riots,” New York Post, March 20, 1935, 6.
- “Riot’s Casualties," New York American, March 21, 1935, 2.