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Raymond Taylor arrested
Taylor, White and Payne appeared in the lists of those charged with burglary in the Atlanta World, Afro-American and Norfolk Journal and Guide, and in the New York Evening Journal. When they appeared in the Washington Heights Magistrates Court on March 20, the charge against them was originally recorded as burglary, with Payne and White denied bail, and Taylor held on bail of $1000. The Home News mistakenly reported different bail decisions for Taylor and Payne: $500 for Taylor and $1500 for Payne. No complainant was listed in the docket book.
The three men returned to the Magistrates Court on March 26, at which point all had the charge against them reduced from burglary to disorderly conduct. That change is recorded in the docket book in the same handwriting as the outcome of the case, a quite different hand than the original entry. Magistrate Ford convicted all three men, and suspended Taylor's sentence while sending White and Payne each to the Workhouse for five months and twenty-nine days. There is no information on why Taylor received a different sentence.
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- "Police Guard Against New Uprising as Mayor Acts to Probe Race Riot," Home News, March 21, 1935, 1.
- Washington Heights Magistrates Court docket book
- "Harlem: Survey - Census Tract #210-212 (20)," 1935, Roll 80, Subject Files, Office of the Mayor, Fiorello H. La Guardia records (New York City Municipal Archives).