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Paul Boyett arrested
Taken to the 30th Precinct Station, Boyett received treatment for his wound from a doctor from Knickerbocker Hospital, according to hospital records, before being placed in a cell.
Boyett appears in lists of the injured published in the New York Evening Journal, New York Post, New York Daily News, New York American. and in in a group of those shot reported in the Brooklyn Daily Eagle and New York Herald Tribune. He also appears in lists of the arrested published in the Afro-American, Atlanta World, Norfolk Journal and Gazette, New York Daily News, New York American, and New York Evening Journal, and in the 28th Precinct Police blotter.
Boyett appeared in the Harlem Magistrates Court on March 20, charged with felonious assault. The docket book indicates that he was remanded until March 22. Boyett did not appear before the grand jury until April 23, according to the District Attorney's case file records; they indicted him for first degree assault. His trial occurred on May 29. Boyett testified he had been “an innocent onlooker” drawn to the “disturbance," the New York Amsterdam News reported, and “struck no one at that time.” In the confusion as the crowd rushed to leave as police appeared, a bullet hit him. The jury acquitted Boyett, an outcome that indicates they likely found his account persuasive.
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- "Transcripts of Police Blotter - Precinct 28, March 19 & 20, 1935," Folder "MCCH - Juvenile Delinquency - 1935-36," Correspondence (Roll 13), Records of Mayor Fiorello H. La Guardia, 1934-1945.
- "Injured," New York Daily News, March 20, 1935, 3
- "Harlem Riot Damage is Figured at Half Million," Afro-American, March 30, 1935, 1, 2.
- District Attorney's Closed Case Files, 204216 (1935) (New York City Municipal Archives)
- “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.
- "Says Economic Conditions in Harlem Are Bad," Atlanta World, March 27, 1935, 1, 2.
- "List of Dead And Injured In Riot In New York City," Norfolk Journal and Gazette, March 30, 1935, 18.
- "Snipers Fire on Police From Harlem Rooftop," Brooklyn Daily Eagle, March 20, 1935, 1, 2.
- “Riot’s Casualties," New York American, March 21, 1935, 2.
- "List of Those under Arrest in Harlem Riot and the Charges They Face," New York Evening Journal, March 20, 1935, 3.
- "Harlem Riot Prisoners and Charges," New York American, March 20, 1935, 4.
- "Wins Acquittal in Disturbance Charge," New York Amsterdam News, June 1, 1935, 1.
- Harlem Magistrates Court docket book
- "Jailed for Rioting," New York Daily News, March 20, 1935, 4.
- "Medical Attendances, 19-20 March 1935," Harlem: Mayor's Commission on Conditions (1), Subject Files, Box 167, Folder 5 (Roll 76), Records of Mayor Fiorello H. La Guardia, 1934-1945 (New York City Municipal Archives).