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

In Harlem court on March 27 (6)

Only the New York Times and New York Herald Tribune reported these hearings. Neither mentioned the two men whose investigations the magistrate continued, Leroy Brown and William Ford. Both stories summarized proceedings related to the disorder in two other courts in addition to the Harlem Magistrates Court: Lino Rivera's appearance in the Adolescents Court in Brooklyn for fare-evading; and the three men pleading guilty in the Court of General Sessions. (The New York Times reported the grand jury informations voted on this date in a later story).

The stories gave the most attention to the appearance of Harry Gordon, reporting that the charge against him was reduced from felonious assault to misdemeanor assault, and the magistrate then transferred him to the Court of Special Sessions for trial. While the New York Times described Gordon as hitting a police officer over the head with his own baton when he tried to arrest him, the New York Herald Tribune published a less precise account in which Gordon's speech excited the crowd, with the result that the policeman was hurt.

The New York Times mentioned that the magistrate sent James Pringle and Claude Jones were to the grand jury on charges of riot; the story did not mention Raymond Easely. By contrast, the New York Herald Tribune mentioned Pringle and Jones, reporting the charge against Pringle as malicious mischief (likely a secondary charge, with riot) and no charge against Jones. That story also mentioned Easley, describing him as being discharged and rearrested as he had already been indicted. Several days earlier, when Dodge's announcements were widely reported, Easely's appearance would have drawn more attention.

All the additional information comes from legal records.

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