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

James Harris arrested

Sometime during the disorder, James Harris was arrested and charged with Petit Larceny. Harris' name appears among those charged with Petit Larceny in the list published in the Atlanta World, Afro-American and Norfolk Journal and Gazette. However, Harris does not appear in the list published in the New York Evening Journal (which included an person's age, race and address), the 28th Precinct Police Blotter, the docket book of either Magistrates Court or any newspaper stories, and there is no evidence of the location of the business that he allegedly looted.

That lack of information is also the case with eight other men who appear only in the list published in the Atlanta World, Afro-American and Norfolk Journal and Gazette, seven charged with Petit Larceny. The absence of this group from the blotter could mean they were arrested in the 32nd Precinct, whose blotter records do not appear to have been obtained by the MCCH. That they did not appear in court could mean that police questioned and released them the next day.

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