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William Grant arrested
The address recorded in the Harlem Magistrates Court docket book for James Marshall, the complainant in the prosecutions against three Black men, was likely the location of the looted store. Although that column of the docket book is headed "Residence," clerks commonly put the address related to the charge in that space rather than the home of the complainant. A branch of the white-owned James Butler Food Market chain occupied that location between 1939 and 1941 when the Tax Department photograph was taken, and was likely there at the time of the disorder as chain stores were an established part of the neighborhood's business landscape. (That side of the street is missing from the MCCH business survey conducted in the second half of 1935.) Grant lived at 19 East 134th Street, some distance north and east of 1974 7th Avenue, unlike Brock and Mills, who lived nearby.
Grant, Mills, and Brock appeared in Harlem Magistrates Court on March 20, when Magistrate Renaud remanded them in custody. When they were returned to court on March 25, Magistrate Ford discharged them so they could be rearrested as they had been indicted by the grand jury, and then held them on $1,000 bail. No further records mention the outcome of those prosecutions. The 28th Precinct police blotter recorded only the discharge on March 25.