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Julius Narditch assaulted
The alleged assault on Narditch is one of only two events north of 145th Street, the other an assault on Max Newman across the street at 2774 8th Avenue an hour earlier. Given that there are only four other events north of 135th Street (including a shooting), there is some question about whether the assaults on Narditch and Newman are actually part of the disorder, in the sense that their assailants were part of crowds moving up from 125th Street or brought out on to the street by the disorder.
Narditch appears in lists of the injured published in the NYDN, NYP, NYJ, AM and HT. Only the HT mentions that he was assaulted by a group of men. The Am attributes the cuts on his face to stabbing, but there is no mention of weapons in the police report. Only two of the fifty-four assaults in the disorder involved knives, a striking contrast with the extensive use of knives in violence at other times in 1935. The Am report seems likely to reflect assumptions from those larger patterns.
Narditch also appear in a record gathered by the MCCH, information extracted from the Aided Cases book of the 32nd Precinct, based on West 135th Street. Procedures required police to record all incidents reported to them in that book. The entry makes no mention of stabbing. Only three other cases appear in the 32nd Precinct book for the period of the disorder, the shooting of De Soto Windgate on West 144th Street between 7th and Lenox Avenues, the assault on Thomas Suarez on 134th Street and the injury of Herbert Holderman on 132nd Street.