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Harlem in Disorder: A Spatial History of How Racial Violence Changed in 1935

Hashi Mohammed arrested

Hashi Mohammed, a twenty-two-year-old Black man, appears in lists of the injured in the New York Evening Journal, New York Post and New York American as having "internal injuries." He also appears in list of the arrested published in the Atlanta World, Afro-American and Norfolk Journal and Guide as charged with inciting a riot and "also charged with, violation of Sullivan law (possession of firearms)." When Mohammed appeared in the Washington Heights Magistrates Court he faced both charges, but the weapon he was recorded as possessing was a knife not a gun. The docket book also identified him as of "Abyssinian" origin in the Washington Heights Magistrate's Court docket book

There are no details of where or when Mohammed was arrested or how he might have been injured. He lived at 4 West 128th Street, a block east of an area of Lenox Avenue that saw extensive disorder after 1 AM. Mohammed did not appear in the Washington Heights Magistrate's Court until March 22, whereas most of those arrested in the disorder had been in court on March 20. That delay may have been the result of his injury? Magistrate Ford held him on bail of $2500 to appear in the Court of Special Sessions, above the typical bail of $500, on the charge of possessing a weapon. Mohammed pled guilty to the charge of inciting a riot, according to the docket book, and Ford sentenced him to thirty days in the Workhouse [could a Magistrate sentence him on this charge - or does this mean the charge was reduced to disorderly conduct]

[Mohamid in docket, Sashi Mohammed in arrest list]

 

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