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James White assaulted
The hospital record described White's injury as a "laceration of scalp." He left for home after treatment rather than being admitted to the hospital so it was not a serious injury. White's absence from police and court records, and from newspaper lists and stories, indicated that he did not make a report to police.
While the hospital admission record did not include information regarding White's race, that it specified that the man who assaulted him was a white man" suggested that White himself was a Black man. He was one of twelve Black men reported assaulted during the disorder and the only who explicitly attributed the attack to a white man. The white men in the area at that time would almost all have been police officers, including plainclothes detectives. There was also at least one white storeowner present at this time. Louis Levy returned to his dry goods store at 374 Lenox Avenue near the intersection around 3:00 AM.