Harlem in Disorder: A Spatial History of How Racial Violence Changed in 1935Main MenuREAD ME: Help Navigating This BookIntroductionOn the StreetsIn the CourtsUnder InvestigationThe Mayor's Commission on Conditions in HarlemOver TimeEventsSourcesStephen Robertsona1bf8804093bc01e94a0485d9f3510bb8508e3bfStanford University Press
Prosecutions of all those arrested
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Eighty-one of those men and women were arraigned in the Harlem Magistrates court, having been arrested in the 28th Police Precinct below 130th Street. Thirty-two other men and women were arraigned in the Washington Heights court. Two additional men were arraigned in the Night Court during the disorder (a third was held to appear in the Harlem court and was counted among those arraigned there).
Magistrates in the Harlem and Washington Heights courts adjudicated the prosecutions of fifty-three of the 115 people (47%) arrested during the disorder; in the cases of the remaining sixty-five people they determined that the offense with which twenty were charged was a misdemeanor and sent them for trial in the Court of Special Sessions and determined that the offense with which the other forty-five were charged was a more serious felony offense and sent them to the Grand Jury for a hearing to decide if they should be tried in the Court of General Sessions.