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Hashi Mohammed arrested
Mohammed was included in the list of those 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 Magistrate's Court he faced both charges, but the weapon he was recorded in the docket book as possessing was a knife not a gun.
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. On the charge of carrying a dangerous weapon, Magistrate Ford held him on bail of $2500 to appear in the Court of Special Sessions, significantly more than the typical bail of $500. There is no information on the outcome of the trial in that court. 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. He likely actually pled guilty to disorderly conduct, as the Magistrate was able to adjudicate that offense, unlike the more serious charge of riot. The only report of Mohammed's court appearance was in the Daily Worker, which mentioned only the sentence and misreported the charge against him as burglary.
The sources differ in how they record Mohammed's name. In the list published in the Atlanta World, Afro-American and Norfolk Journal and Guide he appears as Sashi Mohammed, as Hashi Mohammed in the New York Evening Journal, New York Post and New York American and as Hashi Mohamid in the Washington Heights Magistrate's Court docket book.
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- New York Penal Law, § 2090-2092: Riot
- New York Penal Law, § 722-724: Disorderly Conduct
- New York Penal Law, § 1897-1898: Carrying and use of dangerous weapons.
- “List of Victims," New York Evening Journal, March 20, 1935, 1, 3.
- "Harlem Riot Damage is Figured at Half Million," Afro-American, March 30, 1935, 1, 2.
- "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.
- “List of Casualties in Riots,” New York Post, March 20, 1935, 6.
- “Riot’s Casualties," New York American, March 21, 1935, 2.
- Washington Heights Magistrates Court docket book
- "'Red Scare' Aims To Hide Negro Misery," Daily Worker, March 23, 1935, 1, 2.