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James Pringle arrested
Pringle's address was recorded in his examination in the Harlem Magistrates Court as 101 West 115th Street, southeast of where Naton arrested him, in an area with a mix of Hispanic and Black residents. The 28th Precinct Police blotter recorded the charge against Pringle as burglary, with the note "Burglarized store during riot." He appeared only in the list of those arrested published in the Atlanta World, Afro-American and Norfolk Journal and Guide, among those charged with riot. That was the charge recorded in the Harlem Magistrates Court docket book when Pringle appeared in court on March 20. Magistrate Renaud held until March 27, when he returned to court and was sent to the grand jury, on bail of $1000, by Magistrate Ford. That court appearance was mentioned in stories in the New York Times and the New York Herald Tribune, with the later newspaper reporting the charge against Pringle as malicious mischief. Although not recorded in the docket book, the handwritten note on the affidavit listed that charge, as well as riot, suggesting it was a secondary charge related to what the crowd did rather than what Pringle himself did, that he "led others who smashed windows." Almost two weeks later, on April 8, Pringle appeared before the grand jury, which transferred his case to the Court of Special Sessions, reducing the charges against him from felonies to misdemeanors. A week later the judges in that court convicted Pringle and suspended his sentence, according to the 28th Precinct Police blotter.
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- "Transcripts of Police Blotter - Precinct 28, March 19 & 20, 1935," Folder "MCCH - Juvenile Delinquency - 1935-36," Correspondence (Roll 13), Records of Mayor Fiorello H. La Guardia, 1934-1945.
- New York Penal Law, § 2090-2092: Riot
- "Harlem Riot Damage is Figured at Half Million," Afro-American, March 30, 1935, 1, 2.
- "List of Dead And Injured In Riot In New York City," Norfolk Journal and Guide, March 30, 1935, 18.
- "Says Economic Conditions in Harlem Are Bad," Atlanta World, March 27, 1935, 1, 2.
- New York Penal Law, § 1433: Malicious Mischief
- Harlem Magistrates Court docket book
- "Boy, Cause of Riot, Put on Probation," New York Times, March 28, 1935, 44.
- "Lino Rivera Put On Probation As Slug-Passer," New York Herald Tribune, March 28, 1935, 21.
- District Attorney's Closed Case Files, 204099 (1935) (New York City Muncipal Archives).