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Raymond Easley arrested
Easley was not mentioned in the affidavit in the District Attorney’s case file in which he and Jackson are co-defendants, nor does the file contain an examination of him. The only document in the case file referring to Easley was a criminal record; he had no previous prosecutions. Other than the story about his arraignment in the Magistrates Court in the Home News, Easley only appeared in the list of those arrested published in the Atlanta World, Afro-American and Norfolk Journal and Guide, and the list published in the New York Evening Journal, and a report on his return to the Magistrates Court in the New York Herald Tribune.
Easley and Jackson (whose real name was Thomas Dean) both appeared in the Harlem Magistrate's Court on March 20, but took different paths through the legal system. Magistrate Renaud held Jackson for the grand jury on charges of burglary; he remanded Easley on the same charge and on the charge of carrying a dangerous weapon, a misdemeanor offense, for having the razor in his possession. Both appeared in court again on March 27, but while Jackson, indicted on March 22, pled guilty to unlawful entry in the Court of General Sessions, Easley was back in the Magistrate's Court, having the burglary charges against him dismissed as he had already been indicted by the grand jury as a result of evidence presented in District Attorney Dodge's investigation. The New York Herald Tribune, the only newspaper to report on those proceedings, noted that Easley was rearrested. The 28th Precinct Police Blotter and the District Attorney’s case file are the only sources that recorded that the indictment was dismissed on April 12.
A day earlier Easley had returned to the Harlem court to face the weapons possession charge, having previously had the investigation continued on April 3 and April 9. On April 11 the magistrate sent him to the Court of Special Sessions. There is no record of the outcome of that trial and no newspaper reports of those appearances.
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- "Transcripts of Police Blotter - Precinct 28, March 19 & 20, 1935," MCCH - Juvenile Delinquency - 1935-36, Departmental Correspondence. Box 34, Folder 1 (Roll 171), Records of Mayor Fiorello H. La Guardia, 1934-1945.
- District Attorney's Closed Case Files, 203994 (1935) (New York City Municipal Archives).
- "Lino Rivera Put On Probation As Slug-Passer," New York Herald Tribune, March 28, 1935, 21.