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Patrolman Michael Kelly assaulted
According to the hospital report of the ambulance call-out, the injury to Kelly’s leg was serious enough that he was taken to Harlem Hospital for an x-ray and observation. The list of the injured in the New York American (March 20 & 21) and New York Herald Tribune, and the story in the New York Times followed that information, while the lists in the Home News and New York Evening Journal reported the injury as a sprain without noting that he was taken to the hospital. The Daily Mirror, and lists in the New York Daily News and New York Post replaced the injury to the leg with a more dramatic head injury. Only the hospital record specified the location of the assault, although stories in the New York Times and New York Age associated the assault with events at the rear of Kress’ store.
No one was arrested for assaulting Kelly, as was the case in seven of the nine assaults on police.
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- "Injured," New York Daily News, March 20, 1935, 3
- “List of Victims," New York Evening Journal, March 20, 1935, 1, 3.
- "1 Dead, 7 shot, 100 Hurt as Harlem Crowds Riot over Boy, 16, and Hearse," New York Herald Tribune, March 20, 1935, 1.
- “List of Casualties in Riots,” New York Post, March 20, 1935, 6.
- "5 dying and Scores Wounded as Race Riots in Harlem Subside," Home News, March 20, 1935 [clipping]
- “Riot’s Casualties," New York American, March 21, 1935, 2.
- "Medical Attendances, 19-20 March 1935," Subject Files, Box 167, Folder 5 (Roll 76), Records of Mayor Fiorello H. La Guardia, 1934-1945 (New York City Municipal Archives).
- "1 Slain, 20 Injured in Harlem Rioting," New York American, March 20, 1935, 1.
- "Police Shoot Into Rioters; Kill Negro in Harlem Mob. 3,000 Storm Store After Boy Knife Thief, 16, Is Reported Lynched-Several Shot - Many Felled by Stones," New York Times, March 20, 1935, 1.