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Preparing for the grand jury on March 20
While Dodge wanted action that day, the police and other witnesses needed to give testimony before the grand jury were involved in the legal proceedings uptown in the Magistrates Courts. Their appearance downtown would have to wait until the next day. Assistant District Attorny Saul Price, assigned by Dodge to present the evidence to the grand jury, told reporters he expected to question around eighty witnesses, fifty police officers and thirty Harlem residents, to who he had sent subpoenas.I will immediately present to the Grand Jury the evidence I have procured in connection with the riot. My purpose in presenting the matter at once is to let the Communists know that they cannot come into this country and upset our laws. From my information, Communists distributed literature and took an active part in the rioting.