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James Simon arrested
The docket book recorded T. M. McCabe of the 32nd Precinct as the police officer who arrested Simon. Three other Black men arrested by McCabe appeared in the court at the same time also charged with disorderly conduct: Albert Brown, Roosevelt Dration and Porter O'Neill. They too appeared alongside Simon in the press as arrested for riot. Police likely arrested the men together.
Magistrate Ford convicted Simon and sentenced him to one month in the workhouse. He also convicted the other three men, and imposed the same sentence on Brown and Dration. O'Neill, however, he sentenced to only five days in the workhouse.
Brown's address was recorded as 170 East 129th Street, on the eastern boundary of Black Harlem. That was the same address recorded for Charles De Souse, also arrested for riot, charged with disorderly conduct and convicted in the Washington Heights Magistrates Court.The three newspaper stories that reported his appearance in court recorded him as thirty-three years of age. As the docket book was the official record of the legal proceedings reported in the press, the age given there was used rather than the age reported in the press.