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Henry Blackwell assaulted
The hospital record is the only evidence of the alleged assault. Blackwell did not appear in newspaper stories or lists of the assaulted or injured, which likely means he did not make a report to police. He was not admitted to the hospital, but left after being treated.
Henry Blackwell still lived at the same address five years later, in June 1940, when the census enumerator called, in an apartment with at least eight other lodgers, working as a WPA laborer for the Parks Department. His situation had been very different when recorded by another enumerator for the 1930 census. Then Blackwell had lived several blocks further north at 201 West 132nd Street, with his wife of eighteen years and a thirteen-year-old daughter, and worked as a driver for a family while his wife worked as a hairdresser. There is no record of what became of his family between 1930 and 1935.
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- "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).
- US Census, 1930, Enumeration District 31-888, Sheet 12B, New York City, New York, New York (Ancestry.com).
- US Census, 1940, Enumeration District 31-1704, Sheet 5A, Manhattan, New York, New York (Ancestry.com).