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

James Connel injured

James Connel, a twenty-three-year-old man of unknown race, was injured “in some unknown manner” at Lenox Ave and 125th Street according to a hospital admissions record. He was likely injured sometime around 1.00 AM, as Dr Payne attended him at Harlem Hospital, eleven blocks north on Lenox Avenue, at 1.30 AM according to that record. Hugh Young and Alice Mitchell were injured by flying glass four blocks north on Lenox Avenue, and were treated by Dr Payne at the same time. The blocks of Lenox Avenue saw outbreaks of looting around 1.00 AM. The noise and crowds may have attracted Connel from his home, only a few blocks from where he was injured, at 62 West 129th Street, an area of black residences.

The hospital record described Connel’s injury was a laceration of the scalp, a head wound suffered by six of those injured (30%). He appears only in the hospital records; Connel's name is not in any of the lists of those injured published in the press. After being seen by the physician, Connel went home, his injury evidently not serious enough for him to be admitted to the hospital. The hospital records included no information on race.

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"Hospital Admissions, 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).