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

Leo Cash arrested

Sometime during the disorder, Leo Cash, a twenty-five-year-old Black man who lived at 235 West 120th Street, was arrested and charged with Burglary. Cash's name appears among those charged with Burglary in the list published in the Atlanta World, Afro-American and Norfolk Journal and Guide, and in the list published in the New York Evening Journal (which included his age, race and address). He does not appear 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 Guide, seven charged with Petit Larceny, and one woman who appeared in that list and the list in the New York Evening Journal as Cash did. 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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