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

Jack Ponder injured

Jack Ponder, a forty-year-old man of unknown race, was injured “while walking” at Lenox Ave and 129th Street around 3:30AM. Thomas Brown was also injured, and James White assaulted at the same place and time. Alice Mitchell and Hugh Young had been injured by flying glass at that location two hours earlier, when the area of Lenox Avenue saw the beginning of outbreaks of looting. Ponder appears only in hospital records, and the address recorded for him, 40 West 110th Street, does not exist (that side of 110th Street is Central Park).

Ponder’s injury is a laceration of the right ear, the only wound to the ear among the injured. He appears on the list of hospital admissions as attended by a physician from Harlem Hospital, likely in the emergency room. The result of the physician’s treatment, whether Ponder was sent to the hospital or went home, is not recorded.
 

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