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• 1 2020-02-26T14:48:08+00:00 Charles Alston arrested 95 plain 2024-05-31T02:40:49+00:00 At 5:00 AM on March 20, around two hours after police reported the neighborhood streets were quiet, Patrolman Jerry Brennan arrested Charles Alston, Albert Yerber, Edward Loper, and Ernest Johnson for allegedly shooting at police stationed at Lenox Avenue and West 138th Street. No police officers were reported injured, but Alston suffered a fractured skull as the men fled police. Trying to escape by leaping from the roof of a five-story building to the adjoining building, Alston fell to a second-floor ledge. He was a twenty-one-year-old Black man, as was Loper; Johnson was twenty-two years of age, and Yerber twenty years of age. Alston lived northwest of the alleged shooting, on the edge of Harlem at 512 West 153rd Street. The other men also lived west of where they were arrested, within Harlem, Johnson at 206 West 140th Street, Loper at 298 West 138th Street, and Yerber at 106 Edgecombe Avenue. Only a small proportion of those involved in the disorder lived above 135th Street. The apparent quiet may have made the men willing to travel some distance from where they lived to investigate conditions in the neighborhood. Their arrests starkly illustrated that the reimposition of order did not make Harlem's streets safe for Black residents in the way it did for the reporters who ventured uptown from 125th Street to document their arrest. Discrimination and violence at the hands of police were an everyday feature of the neighborhood's racial order, not the result of its breakdown.
  
  
  
  Newspaper stories contained few details of the shooting, even as they employed a range of dramatic and emotive language — for example, the New York World Telegram and Times Union reported a “nest” of snipers “trying to pick off” a "lone policeman." Stories in the New York World Telegram and Brooklyn Daily Eagle did offer the name of the officer allegedly targeted by Alston and his companions, Patrolman Jerry Brennan of the Morrisiana station, and the same dramatic account that a bullet whistled past his ear as he stood on post at Lenox Ave and 138th Street. Taking cover, he saw the men on the roof of the five-story building at 101 West 138th Street. Soon after, police reinforcements arrived and rushed to the roof to arrest the men. One other story, in the Home News, identified Brennan, but cast him not as the target of the shooters but as one of the police who responded. In a radio car assigned to the area with his partner Patrolman McGrady, Brennan “heard the shots and sped to the scene. At the radio car's approach the four snipers [standing in the doorway] ran to the roof of the building.” This story provides the key detail that no guns were found on Alston and his companions.
  
  On March 20, the other three men appeared in court charged with disorderly conduct, according to the Washington Heights Magistrates Court docket book. The clerk annotated that charge with the word "annoy." Under that section of the statute, a person was guilty if they acted "in such a manner as to annoy, disturb, interfere with, obstruct, or be offensive to others." A separate clause punished disorderly or threatening conduct or behavior, so based on that annotation, the men were not charged with attacking Brennan. That charge of annoying better fit the circumstances described in the Home News. Whatever the patrolman alleged, Magistrate Ford did not find sufficient evidence of the men's guilt and acquitted the three men. Given that outcome, it is possible Brennan mistook some other noise for gunfire. Without any evidence of an assault in the sources, these events are treated here only as arrests. It was not until three weeks later that Alston appeared in court, on April 9. On that date he was discharged, an outcome recorded in the transcription of the 32nd Precinct blotter made by the MCCH's researchers. In releasing Alston without trial the Magistrate was following the decision made in the other men's acquittals. 
  
  Alston’s fall attracted more attention than the shooting. Again the Home News offers the most detail, noting that the leap that Alston had attempted was a distance of seven feet (the New York Post said six feet), and that after he landed on the ledge he managed to crawl through the window into an apartment and hide under a bed. His escape bid failed as the occupants of the apartment called police. The Home News report also made clear that Alston did not appear seriously injured at the time of his arrest. It was at the 135th Street police station that he collapsed and was found to have a fractured skull, the serious injury noted in less detailed stories and in lists of the injured. (The New York Evening Journal was the only other newspaper to report these details, although it mistakenly reported that the group arrested numbered three, not four. The New York Post did report that Alston hid under a bed.)
  
  The Daily News published a photograph of Alston's arrest in which he is holding his head, suggesting he did appear injured at that time. The caption published with the photo drew attention to the “clubbed gun” held by the uniformed officer leading Alston to a patrol wagon (seeming to suggest that the officer had used the gun butt to hit Alston). It concludes starkly, “He’s dying.” The photo published in the Norfolk Journal and Guide and New York World-Telegram credited to the International Photo agency and likely taken with the camera visible in the foreground of the Daily News photo a few seconds earlier, also clearly shows Alston clutching his head, with marks on his trousers and jacket that may be evidence of his fall. The officer’s clubbed gun is also again visible, together with the night stick of his partner. The full photograph from which the published image is cropped, part of the Bettman Collection digitized by Getty Images, provides a clearer view of those gathered around the building.
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  Visible to the right of this group are three black men obscured in the Daily News photo, which shows only white men. Given the location of this arrest in the heart of Harlem, at 5:00 AM, the only white men likely to be present would be reporters and police detectives in plainclothes. The photographs are some of the few taken beyond the area around 125th Street. By the time of Alston’s arrest, the disorder was over, allowing white reporters to travel more freely in Harlem than they had earlier, when crowds had attacked them. The captions accompanying the published cropped versions of the photo in the Norfolk Journal and Guide and New York World Telegram misidentified Alston as a suspected looter.
  
  The New York American, New York Evening Journal, and New York Post included Alston in their lists of the injured, as did the New York Herald Tribune on March 21, and the Black newspapers the Atlanta World, Afro-American, and Norfolk Journal and Guide several days later, all describing the nature of his injuries with no reference to the circumstances in which he suffered them. He was not listed among those arrested. A photograph published in the Daily News of four patrolmen carrying a stretcher containing an injured Black "victim of the rioting" out of the West 135th Street station may be an image of Alston being taken to the hospital. The photograph was not published until March 21, and the caption identified it as having been taken "early yesterday." As the location was the 135th Street station, the "victim" would have been injured above 130th Street, the southern boundary of that precinct. Most seriously injured individuals would have been taken directly to hospital.
• 1 2020-09-29T17:41:09+00:00 Hashi Mohammed arrested 45 plain 2024-01-25T21:15:34+00:00 Officer Brown of the 40th Precinct arrested Hashi Mohammed, a twenty-two-year-old Black man, for inciting a riot and possession of a knife. Mohammed had allegedly smashed windows "along Lenox Avenue," according to a story in the Home News, the source of details of the charges made against him. Born in Abyssinia, according to the New York American and New York Evening Journal and Washington Heights Magistrate's Court docket book, he lived at 4 West 128th Street, a block east of an area of Lenox Avenue that saw extensive disorder from late on March 19 and into the early hours of March 20, and may have been drawn to join the crowds on that street at some point. The combination of charges suggest that after Mohammed's arrest, the police officer searched him and found the knife, "a large bread knife" according to Home News. Mohammed also appeared in lists of the injured published in the New York Evening Journal, New York Post, and New York American as having "internal injuries." While he was listed among those "Less Seriously Injured" in the New York American and New York Evening Journal, he was also identified as in Harlem Hospital (however, he does not appear in any of the records the MCCH obtained from the hospital). It is possible that Brown or other police officers involved in his arrest may have been responsible for those injuries.
  
  
  
  Mohammed was included in the list of those arrested published in the Atlanta World, Afro-American, and Norfolk Journal and Guide as charged with inciting a riot and "also charged with, violation of Sullivan law (possession of firearms)." When Mohammed appeared in the Washington Heights Magistrate's Court, he faced both charges, but the weapon he was recorded in the docket book as possessing was a knife not a gun.
  
  Mohammed did not appear in the Washington Heights Magistrate's Court until March 22, whereas most of those arrested in the disorder had been in court on March 20. That delay may have been the result of his injury. On the charge of carrying a dangerous weapon, Magistrate Ford held him on bail of $2,500 to appear in the Court of Special Sessions, significantly more than the typical bail of $500. Mohammed pled guilty, according to the docket book, but that must have been to a lesser charge of disorderly conduct, as the Magistrate could not adjudicate a charge of riot. Ford sentenced him to thirty days in the Workhouse. The only reports of Mohammed's court appearance were in the New York Times and Daily Worker, which mentioned only the sentence and misreported the charge against him as burglary, and the Home News, which reported he had been convicted, not pled guilty. (The New York Times story mentioned Mohammed in the context of hearings in the Harlem court not the Washington Heights court.) Three weeks later, on April 17, the Magistrates in the Court of Special Sessions acquitted Mohammed of possessing a weapon, an outcome that appears only in the records of the 32nd Precinct.
  
  The sources differ in how they record Mohammed's name. In the list published in the Atlanta World, Afro-American, and Norfolk Journal and Guide he appears as Sashi Mohammed, as Hashi Mohammed in the New York Evening Journal, New York Post, and New York American, as Hashi Mohamed in the Home News, and as Hashi Mohamid in the Washington Heights Magistrate's Court docket book.The records of the 32nd Precinct record his name as "Koko Mohammed."
   
• 1 2021-05-27T20:08:18+00:00 Louis Cobb arrested 41 plain 2024-01-28T05:26:59+00:00 Around 1:20 AM, Officer Nathaniel Carter allegedly saw several men leaving William Feinstein's liquor store at 452 Lenox Avenue carrying bottles, according to the Magistrate's Court affidavit. He arrested one of those men, Louis Cobb, a thirty-eight-year-old Black laborer, with one bottle of gin and two bottles of whiskey in his possession. A crowd of thirty to forty people had attacked the closed store a few minutes earlier, according to witness testimony in the Municipal Court reported in the New York Times and New York Herald Tribune, breaking down the iron gate protecting it, then smashing the windows, taking bottles of liquor and damaging the storefront. Feinstein put his losses at $627.40 when he sued the city for failing to protect his business. The three bottles allegedly taken by Cobb amounted to just over one percent of that total, $7. Cobb lived only a block north of the store at 473 Lenox Avenue.
  
  
  
  Louis Cobb appeared in the Washington Heights Magistrate's Court on March 20. However, the affidavit making the complaint against him was not taken until March 25. In the interim, Magistrate Ford held Cobb without bail. An annotation in the docket book dated March 21 records "no bail in absence of record," suggesting police had not been able to produce his criminal record. Magistrates reaffirmed the denial of bail when Cobb appeared repeatedly in court, on March 25, 26 and April 2, when he was finally sent to the grand jury. Those decisions reflected the criminal record eventually produced for him: six charges in New York City since 1920, for burglary, robbery, drug possession, homicide, procuring and possession of a firearm, resulting in two sentences to the state prison at Sing Sing, two terms in the penitentiary, and a sentence in the Workhouse, and two sentences for violating parole. Cobb appeared in the list of those arrested and charged with burglary published in the Atlanta World, Afro-American, and Norfolk Journal and Guide, and the list published in the New York Evening Journal. There were no newspaper reports of his prosecution.
  
  The grand jury did not indict Cobb; on April 10 they instead transferred him to the Court of Special Sessions to be tried for petit larceny. That decision likely reflected the lack of evidence of him breaking into the store required for a charge of burglary, and the value of the three bottles of liquor Officer Carter allegedly found on him, $7, according to the Magistrate's Court affidavit, well below the $100 threshold for a felony charge for larceny. Less than a week later, on April 15, the Magistrates in the Court of Special Sessions convicted Cobb and sentenced him to the Penitentary, an outcome recorded only in the records of the 32nd Precinct.
  
  Born in Georgia in 1897, Louis Cobb had made his way to New York City sometime before January 10, 1920, when a census enumerator found him boarding at 334 53rd Street, in San Juan Hill, the city's major Black neighborhood before the rise of Harlem, and working as a porter. A series of criminal convictions though the 1920s and 1930s offer fragmentary glimpses of Cobb's life in Harlem. Just over two months after the census, his criminal record indicates that police charged Cobb with attempted burglary; he was convicted and sentenced to an indefinite term in the Blackwell Island Penitentiary. He was on parole by February 1921, when police arrested him again for violating the terms of that parole and returned him to the penitentiary. Released again later that year, within a few months Cobb was in court, charged with robbery. Convicted of second-degree assault, the judge sentenced him to five years in Sing Sing, the state prison. The prison admissions register recorded that Cobb was unemployed at the time of the alleged crime, now living in Harlem at 30 West 135th Street; in a subsequent admission register entry he would attribute his "first crime" to being out of work. According to the admissions register, Cobb was eligible for parole in May 1925. He likely was released around this time, as in November 1925 police arrested him again, this time for a drug offense, according to his criminal record. The judge sentenced him to another indefinite term in the Penitentiary, but the conviction violated his parole, so Cobb was returned to Sing Sing Prison to serve out his previous sentence.
  
  Likely released in early 1926, Cobb later that year began living with Martha Nelson, who was about ten years his junior. The couple made their home at 8 West 137th Street, in the heart of Harlem. In 1930, Cobb gave his occupation as longshoreman in the 1930 census, but indicated he had not been employed in 1929. He may have been supporting himself in other ways. In May 1929, his criminal record indicates that a magistrate convicted Cobb as a procurer, supplying prostitutes, and sentenced him to sixty days in the Workhouse. About five months after his release, in December 1929, police again arrested Cobb, for the murder of Bert Moore, a Black store manger, during a robbery of the candy store at 23 West 138th Street that he managed. The New York Amsterdam News and New York Age published very different accounts of the crime, neither of which explain why Cobb's criminal record indicated he was discharged in 1931 and charged instead with gun possession. The robbery of the store was the third in as many weeks. According to the New York Age, in a story accompanied by a photograph of Moore, Cobb was involved in all those robberies; on the first two occasions, he had an accomplice, John Boyle, who was arrested after the second robbery when Moore managed to subdue him with a baseball bat until police arrived. Cobb then returned on his own to rob the store again and shot Moore as he left. A customer in the store at the time identified Cobb. The New York Amsterdam News reported Boyle (whose name they misspelled as Doyle) as acting alone and captured by Moore and three customers, and did not link Cobb to either previous robbery. After the third robbery, the New York Amsterdam News reported less evidence linking Cobb to the murder: Moore gave police a description before he died, based on which officers arrested Cobb on West 138th Street close by the candy store. The story also reported that police found a gun when they searched Cobb's home, but that his wife claimed it belonged to her, leading to her arrest for gun possession. The New York Amsterdam News a week later reported Cobb's arraignment and his wife's arraignment in separate stories. Neither paper published anything further about the case.
  
  In April 1930, the census recorded that Cobb was in the Tombs Prison; a magistrate had ordered him held without bail on the murder charge. However, at some point before early 1931 he was released; beginning in February, he worked as a laborer for a coal company, according to the Sing Sing Prison admission register. In April, police arrested him for possession of a revolver; the prison admission register recorded the date of that crime as December 13, 1929, when Cobb was arrested for Moore's murder. Police must have found a way to link Cobb to the gun found in his home that day, but not to Moore's murder; it did not seem that Martha had changed her story, as Cobb still listed her as his wife in the prison admission register. Convicted of gun possession, Cobb was sentenced to seven years in Sing Sing Prison.
  
  Paroled in 1939, rather than returning to Harlem, Cobb settled in Albany, New York, and found work as a presser. He identified himself as single, and his mother, rather than Martha Nelson, as his next of kin, in the Clinton Prison admission ledger in 1939. In July that year police arrested Cobb for burglary, charging him with stealing a $15 radio, a coat, and a vest. The admission ledger recorded that he asserted his innocence, saying he took the property from a friend not knowing it was stolen. Nonetheless, he was found guilty and sentenced to a term of ten to twenty years. The 1940 census recorded him as an inmate of Clinton Prison. He was not eligible for parole until 1948.
   
• 1 2021-09-01T12:00:29+00:00 Elva Jacobs arrested 26 plain 2024-01-24T00:52:14+00:00 Sometime in the disorder, Officer L. W. Adamie of the 46th Precinct arrested Elva Jacobs, an eighteen-year-old Black woman, and charged her with burglary for allegedly having "broken a store window at 1 W. 137th St. and taken groceries," according to a story in the Home News. At a subsequent court appearance, the prosecutor reduced the charge against Jacobs to unlawful entry, an offense used when there was not evidence that she had taken any merchandise. However, that charge did not fit with the allegation that Jacobs had broken a window, as the charge in that circumstance would have been malicious mischief. Most likely, Adamie had allegedly seen or found her in the grocery store. Like almost all of those arrested for looting on the eastern boundary of Harlem north of 130th Street, Jacobs lived relatively near the store. Her home was at 56 West 142nd Street, between 5th Avenue and Lenox Avenues, five blocks north of the store, which was just off 5th Avenue.
  
  
  
  The only information on the circumstances of the arrest was the statement in the Home News, reporting Jacobs' arraignment in the Washington Heights Magistrates Court on March 20. It is possible that Adamie arrested a second person for looting the store, and that Jacobs had been part of a larger group. Adamie was recorded in the docket book as the officer who arrested Courtney Marsh, a thirty-nine-year-old Black man who appeared in court immediately after Jacobs, facing the same charge of burglary. Like her, he lived north of the store, but further away, at 263 West 152nd Street. Based on other cases recorded in the docket book, the charge of burglary indicated that Marsh was also arrested for looting the grocery store, but he was not mentioned in the Home News story on the arraignments in the court, nor did he appear in the list of those arrested in the disorder published in the Atlanta World, Afro-American, and Norfolk Journal and Guide in which Jacobs appeared (neither of them are in the list published in the New York Evening Journal). Given that absence, and without a complainant recorded in the docket book to confirm a link between the two, Marsh was not included among those arrested during the disorder.
  
  Magistrate Ford remanded Jacobs in custody. When she returned to court the next day, Ford set her bail at $1,500 according to the docket book. Two days later, on March 23, Jacobs was back in court. This was likely when the charge against her was reduced from burglary to unlawful entry; in the docket book, the original charge is crossed out and "Red. to unl. entry" written in its place, in a different handwriting than the original charge. The same handwriting records that on this date Ford sent her to the Court of Special Sessions, which adjudicated misdemeanors such as unlawful entry, reducing her bail to $50. It took a month before Jacobs was tried in the that court. On May 3, the magistrates convicted her, suspended her sentence, and put her on probation, an outcome found only in the 32nd Precinct records. (The prosecution of Marsh followed the same process until March 23, when Magistrate Ford discharged him rather than sending him for trial as he did Jacobs.)
• 1 2021-08-20T19:16:43+00:00 Lamter Jackson arrested 17 plain 2024-02-12T20:11:59+00:00 Sometime during the disorder, Officer Jackson of the 32nd Precinct arrested Lamter Jackson, a twenty-four-year-old Black man, for allegedly throwing a rock that shattered the window of a store selling unclaimed laundry at 1 West 131st Street and then taking a bag of laundry from the store. The only source of details of the event was the report of Jackson's appearance in the Magistrates' Court published by the Home News. Officer Jackson was identified as the arresting officer in Magistrates Court docket book. Lamter Jackson lived at 78 West 135th Street. There were multiple lootings and assaults on the stretch of Lenox Avenue between his home and the laundry store, noise and crowds which could have brought Jackson on to the streets. Several other men arrested in this area — Lawrence Humphrey, Carl Jones, Raymond Taylor, and Preston White, likewise lived in the blocks of 135th–132nd Streets between Lenox and 5th Avenues.
  
  
  
  Jackson was listed among those charged with burglary in the Atlanta World, Afro-American, and Norfolk Journal and Guide, and the New York Evening Journal. Both those lists flip his name, identifying him as Jackson Lamter; the Home News and the docket book recorded him as Lamter Jackson. He appeared in the Washington Heights Magistrates Court on March 20, charged with petit larceny, not burglary. That charge did not require the evidence of breaking in and entering a store to take merchandise that burglary did. Magistrate Ford sent Jackson to the Court of Special Sessions and held him on $100 bail. For some reason, just over two months passed before Jackson's trial took place. On May 27, the magistrates convicted him and sent him to the Workhouse for thirty days, an outcome found only in the 32nd Precinct records.
• 1 2021-09-01T14:06:32+00:00 Earl Davis arrested 14 plain 2024-01-24T00:01:56+00:00 Sometime during the disorder, Officer William Butler of the 18th Precinct arrested Earl Davis, a twenty-six-year-old Black man. The arrest likely took place near 531 Lenox Avenue as that is the address listed for the complainant against him in the Washington Heights Magistrates Court, Philip Jaross. Although that column of the docket book was for the complainant's residence, clerks commonly instead recorded the address of looted or damaged stores. The address, on the block between West 135th and West 136th Streets, opposite Harlem Hospital, was the location of Jaross' Merchant Tailors, which the MCCH Business survey described as a "Store operated by two Jewish men. Carry a cheap line of tailor made clothes. Been here 3 1/2 years."
  
  Davis is among those named as charged with petit larceny in the list published in the Atlanta World, Afro-American, and Norfolk Journal and Guide. (He is not in the list published in the New York Evening Journal.) A charge of petit larceny suggests that Davis was not alleged to have broken the store window or otherwise gained entry to the building, but rather to have stolen merchandise of low value. There is no mention of this event in any other sources. It is the northernmost reported looting of the disorder, one of a small number of events north of West 135th Street. Davis lived at 110 West 127th Street, between Lenox and 7th Avenues, to the south of the store.
  
  
  
  When Davis appeared in Washington Heights Magistrates Court on March 20, Magistrate Ford held him for the Court of Special Sessions, on bail of $100. When he appeared in that court on March 22, the Magistrates convicted Davis and sentenced him to ten days in the Workhouse, an outcome found only in the 32nd Precinct records.
• 1 2021-09-08T00:07:32+00:00 Alonzo Greenridge arrested 12 plain 2024-01-11T23:51:25+00:00 Sometime during the disorder, Alonzo Greenridge, a forty-three-year-old West Indian, was arrested in the 32nd Precinct, which covered the area north of 130th Street. His name appears among those charged with petit larceny in the list published in the Atlanta World, Afro-American, and Norfolk Journal and Guide. However, the charge recorded in the 32nd Precinct police reports; gathered by the MCCH was disorderly conduct. Those records, which appeared to have been transcribed from the police blotter, provide his age, birthplace and address, 982 Union Avenue, together with a notation, "out of Harlem Area." Greenridge was not recorded in the docket book of the Washington Heights Magistrates Court or any newspaper stories, and there is no evidence of the location of the business that he allegedly looted.
  
  
  
  For the outcome of Greenridge's prosecution, the 32nd Precinct police report recorded "Final Disposition ?." That was the same outcome recorded in the police report cards for five other men who appeared only in the list published in the Atlanta World, Afro-American, and Norfolk Journal and Guide, all also charged with petit larceny. (One other man, Archie Niles, named only in that list as charged with petit larceny, was not found in the police reports). Together with the men's absence from the court docket book, that evidence suggests that for some reason Greenridge and the others were not arraigned.
• 1 2021-09-08T00:12:06+00:00 Merryman McAllister arrested 9 plain 2024-01-28T18:13:39+00:00 Sometime during the disorder, Merryman McAllister, a forty-five-year-old man, was arrested in the 32nd Precinct, which covered the area north of 130th Street. His name appears among those charged with petit larceny in the list published in the Atlanta World, Afro-American, and Norfolk Journal and Guide. However, the charge recorded in the 32nd Precinct "police reports" gathered by the MCCH was disorderly conduct. Those records, which appeared to be transcribed from the police blotter, provide his age, birthplace, and address, 262 West 140th Street. McAllister was not recorded in the docket book of the Washington Heights Magistrates Court or any newspaper stories, and there is no evidence of the location of the business that he allegedly looted.
  
  
  
  For the outcome of McAllister's prosecution, the 32nd Precinct police report recorded "Final Disposition ?." That was the same outcome recorded in the police report cards for five other men who appeared only in the list published in the Atlanta World, Afro-American, and Norfolk Journal and Guide, all also charged with petit larceny. (One other man, Archie Niles, named only in that list as charged with petit larceny, was not found in the police reports). Together with the men's absence from the court docket book, that evidence suggests that for some reason McAllister and the others were not arraigned. The likeliest explanation is that they had been spectators in a crowd near a store being looted who police arrested when they dispersed the crowd, mistaking them for participants in the looting or indiscriminately making arrests to disperse the crowd.
• 1 2021-09-08T00:05:54+00:00 John Darby arrested 8 plain 2024-01-27T18:09:50+00:00 Sometime during the disorder, John Darby, a forty-eight-year-old man, was arrested in the 32nd Precinct, which covered the area north of 130th Street. His name appears among those charged with petit larceny in the list published in the Atlanta World, Afro-American, and Norfolk Journal and Guide. However, the charge recorded in the 32nd Precinct "police reports" gathered by the MCCH was disorderly conduct. Those records, which appeared to be transcribed from the police blotter, provide his age, birthplace, and address, 11 West 137th Street. Darby was not recorded in the docket book of the Washington Heights Magistrates Court or any newspaper stories, and there was no evidence of the location of the business that he allegedly looted.
  
  
  
  For the outcome of Darby's prosecution, the 32nd Precinct police report recorded "Final Disposition ?." That was the same outcome recorded in the police report cards for five other men who appeared only in the list published in the Atlanta World, Afro-American, and Norfolk Journal and Guide, all also charged with petit larceny. (One other man, Archie Niles, named only in that list as charged with petit larceny, was not found in the police reports.) Together with the men's absence from the court docket book, that evidence suggests that for some reason Greenridge and the others were not arraigned.
• 1 2021-09-08T00:09:11+00:00 James Harris arrested 7 plain 2024-01-27T16:34:52+00:00 Sometime during the disorder, James Harris, a thirty-nine-year-old man, was arrested in the 32nd Precinct, which covered the area north of 130th Street. His name appears among those charged with petit larceny in the list published in the Atlanta World, Afro-American, and Norfolk Journal and Guide. However, the charge recorded in the 32nd Precinct "police reports" gathered by the MCCH was disorderly conduct. Those records, which appeared to be transcribed from the police blotter, provide his age and address, 117 West 135th Street. Harris was not recorded in the docket book of the Washington Heights Magistrates Court or any newspaper stories, and there was no evidence of the location of the business that he allegedly looted.
  
  
  
  For the outcome of Harris' prosecution, the 32nd Precinct Police Report recorded "Final Disposition ?." That was the same outcome recorded in the police report cards for five other men who appeared only in the list published in the Atlanta World, Afro-American, and Norfolk Journal and Guide, all also charged with petit larceny. (One other man, Archie Niles, named only in that list as charged with petit larceny, was not found in the police reports.) Together with the men's absence from the court docket book, that evidence suggests that for some reason Greenridge and the others were not arraigned.
• 1 2021-09-08T00:10:40+00:00 James Mason arrested 7 plain 2024-01-27T17:26:32+00:00 Sometime during the disorder, James Mason, a thirty-eight-year-old West Indian, was arrested in the 32nd Precinct, which covered the area north of 130th Street. His name appears among those charged with petit larceny in the list published in the Atlanta World, Afro-American, and Norfolk Journal and Guide. However, the charge recorded in the 32nd Precinct "police reports" gathered by the MCCH was disorderly conduct. Those records, which appeared to be transcribed from the police blotter, provide his age, birthplace, and address, 312 West 137th Street. Mason was not recorded in the docket book of the Washington Heights Magistrates Court or any newspaper stories, and there is no evidence of the location of the business that he allegedly looted.
  
  
  
  For the outcome of Mason's prosecution, the 32nd Precinct police report recorded "Final Disposition ?." That was the same outcome recorded in the police report cards for five other men who appeared only in the list published in the Atlanta World, Afro-American, and Norfolk Journal and Guide, all also charged with petit larceny. (One other man, Archie Niles, named only in that list as charged with petit larceny, was not found in the police reports). Together with the men's absence from the court docket book, that evidence suggests that for some reason Greenridge and the others were not arraigned.